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A Tiny Fund Has Scored A Historic Win Against ExxonMobil Over The Future Of Oil

Pictured are pumps at an Exxon gas station in Charlotte, N.C. A tiny fund got two board members elected to the oil giant's board, delivering a historic defeat to ExxonMobil. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Business

A Tiny Fund Has Scored A Historic Win Against ExxonMobil Over The Future Of Oil

A brand-new hedge fund wants ExxonMobil to take climate change more seriously. And despite Exxon's intense opposition, it managed to fill at least two seats on the oil giant's board of directors.

A Tiny Fund Has Scored A Historic Win Against ExxonMobil Over The Future Of Oil

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Tuesday

Exxon Writes Off Record Amount From Value of Assets Amid Energy Market Downturn

An Exxon station in Hicksville, N.Y., in March. Exxon Mobil Corp. announced up to $20 billion in write-downs of natural gas assets, the biggest such action ever by the company. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption

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Exxon Writes Off Record Amount From Value of Assets Amid Energy Market Downturn

Exxon, which usually avoids writing down assets, has announced its largest-ever impairment after canceling plans for natural gas projects in the Americas.

Exxon Writes Off Record Amount From Value of Assets Amid Energy Market Downturn

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Tuesday

Exxon Mobil Exits: The Dow Drops Its Oldest Member

Exxon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1928, as Standard Oil, one of companies descended from John D. Rockefeller's world-transforming oil monopoly. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images hide caption

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Exxon Mobil Exits: The Dow Drops Its Oldest Member

Apple's stock split is the cause of the shake-up at the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But the symbolic shift also represents how Exxon, once a corporate titan, has diminished in stature.

Tuesday

Exxon Is On Trial, Accused Of Misleading Investors About Risks Of Climate Change

New York's attorney general is suing Exxon Mobil, accusing the company of defrauding shareholders. Above, an Exxon refinery in St. Bernard Parish, La., is seen in 2015. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption

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Exxon Is On Trial, Accused Of Misleading Investors About Risks Of Climate Change

New York's attorney general argues that Exxon used shady methods of calculating carbon costs, affecting its share price and defrauding shareholders. Exxon says the lawsuit is politically motivated.

Exxon Is On Trial, Accused Of Misleading Investors About Risks Of Climate Change

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