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The SEC is investigating how ExxonMobil values its fossil fuel holdings

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In order to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less by the end of the century, oil and gas companies will eventually have to limit how much fossil fuel they extract. Most oil companies are facing this reality and writing down the value of their future oil assets. ExxonMobil is not, and the SEC wants to know why.

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Activists to Obama: Stop leasing public land to take out oil, gas, coal

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Climate change activist Bill McKibben speaking in Waitsfield, Vermont in 2012.

To fight climate change, activist says Obama’s policy needs ‘to be as good as physics demands’

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