In announcing a deal to acquire shale driller Pioneer Resources for $60 billion, ExxonMobil last week initiated the year’s biggest corporate buyout, which is also the company’s biggest such transaction since 1999. Pioneer Resources exists for a single reason: to drill for oil and gas. Exxon’s purchase is an indication that it intends to keep doubling down on exactly that, continuing the trend of major oil and gas companies walking back climate commitments made when they were making less money on
The federal sentencing of the ringleader of a global hack-for-hire operation revealed that the oil company cited press reports in court that used stolen
Federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo Thursday that hackers hired by an Israeli private investigator stole communications between climate activists that were later used in court by Exxon Mobil Corp. In the memo, attorneys with the Southern District of New York said Aviram Azari, the defendant in the case, paid for the services of…
By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from cl.