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Exxon had its annual shareholder meeting this week in Texas. It was billed as a showdown between environmental activists who wanted to force the oil company to set limits on its greenhouse gas emissions and a board that wanted to
maintain the status quo. The status quo won. We check in with Sister Pat Conley, a Dominican nun from New Jersey, who attended the shareholder meeting representing her diocese and was hoping the company would make a change.

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