After years of delay and obfuscation, ExxonMobil is finally showing signs of giving up its fight against climate science. In the latest development, last week ExxonMobil threw a monkey wrench into ALEC’s plans for lobbying the Trump administration to relax global warming emissions. ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is an influential conservative lobbying group known for writing model legislation for state legislators to duplicate.

Criticism of the company’s stance on climate change reached a boiling point in 2015, when news reports indicated that ExxonMobil was sitting on its own research confirming the link between human activity, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, as early as the 1970s.

In an interesting twist, ExxonMobil is an ALEC member, and the company holds a seat on the ALEC task force that spearheaded the global warming effort.

As long as ExxonMobil can tout natural gas as “cleaner” than coal, it has a clear interest in helping climate advocates keep the 2009 endangerment finding intact.

That’s nice, but it doesn’t let ExxonMobil off the carbon emissions hook. Natural gas is cleaner than coal as far as power plant emissions go, but there are global and local environmental issues all along the supply chain that add up to a hot mess of unsustainability.

Read the full article on ExxonMobil by Tina Casey at TriplePundit