Exxon Mobil Case StudyExxon Mobil is the largest U.S. Company in the world and it participates in three very profitable industries: Mining/Crude-Oil industry, Petroleum Refining, and Chemicals. Exxon Mobil is a multinational oil and gas corporation. They have evolved over the past 125 years as a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. Today Exxon Mobil operates in most of the worlds countries and is best known by their familiar brand names: Exxon, Esso and Mobil. They make the products that drive modern transportation, power cities, lubricate industry and provide petrochemical building blocks that lead to thousands of consumer goods.
The Exxon Mobil case includes the world’s first large-scale oil and gas exploration project. Exxon Mobil commenced building their pipeline to the coast of the world in 2006 and will begin selling its first gas by 2025.
A lawsuit filed in 2013 claims Exxon Mobil conducted an “insensitive marketing campaign” against the public over the use of its own oil in the United States of America. In the lawsuit filed June 15, 2013, a federal judge ruled that Exxon Mobil should be held liable for misleading the American public about its business practices. The lawsuit seeks an injunction barring Exxon Mobil from “acting to undermine or mislead the public, the public interest in preserving oil and gas resources and the interests of national security and environment,” and “intimately impairing the well-being, economics, public health and well-being of the United States citizens, businesses and the environment by acting, by its actions or inaction, to impede the safe operation of the U.S. oil and gas pipelines, pipeline system and equipment, and thereby adversely effect the national security and environmental health and welfare of the U.S.” The judge added that Exxon Mobil’s legal actions violated the U.S. Constitution, the “Natural Resources Act of 1970” and the federal Environmental Protection Act of 1970.
Environmental attorneys General David Stern and Scott Pruitt, Attorney General Eric Holder, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Secretary of State, and Attorney General James Cole, Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Acting EPA Administrator James L. Pruitt, US Attorney for the Eastern District of California, and President Barack Obama, Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Executive Director and General Counsel Jeff Sessions, and Chief Environmental Judge Mary Barra, all former executives of Exxon Mobil.
The lawsuit was filed by United Natural Resources of America and the Sierra Club of America; Sierra Club of America, the Sierra Club of America and The Sierra Club of America filed a federal and state lawsuit and jointly filed a federal and state lawsuit in California and in Nevada. Neither party has commented on whether further comment would apply to the case.
This has been a major legal victory for the Trump administration over the Obama administration’s policies, especially in light of the actions that the Trump administration will take if Trump is elected president. The President is taking unilateral action to halt future efforts to close the Arctic Circle, and to reduce the number of offshore drilling projects, but the policies won’t be reversed on this matter, which is why Trump may want to revisit an Obama administration policy that has long threatened the rights of all Alaska’s drilling companies. There is evidence that Trump has already broken with precedent with his travel ban and his travel restrictions to various Asian countries. The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing its regulations to clarify its rulemaking regarding oil
, and for nearly a year now, the agency has been on notice that the Trump administration may not uphold the Arctic Oil ban that the Obama administration placed in place to protect oil from potential flooding in the Arctic.
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The Trump administration will have every right to take action to block the Arctic Gateway and the planned Kinder Morgan Pipeline, and to halt any other development of Arctic sovereignty in our states, in this country, in order to protect our national interests. To be clear, not all this has gone down well with Alaska and the other major permafrost or icefields that will be affected by the ongoing oil extraction in the Arctic. We need to keep in mind that all of these projects will harm our nation’s economy, economic growth, and economic livelihoods, and the only alternative for our country is to keep drilling in the Arctic. This is why we will oppose any plans to end production in the Arctic and not oil.