Morning Brief: Exxon lobbyist causes stir on carbon tax, infrastructure

July 1, 2021
A lobbyist for oil and gas giant ExxonMobil is causing a dust-up with comments he made in an environmental group’s video dismissing the company’s public support for a carbon tax and stating that it has pushed to narrow the scope of infrastructure legislation in order to cut out climate-related provisions. According to a report from the British broadcaster Channel 4 , the comments from senior ExxonMobil lobbyist Keith McCoy came in a video released by Greenpeace UK, in which a...


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