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Business Daily: Exxon Mobil

Exxon Mobil

30/07/2012

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Exxon Mobil

The climate change policies of America's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil.

The climate change policies of America's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil. Plus, how Olympic sponsors are protected by an Act of Parliament, and are British workers fed up with Olympic disruption?

America's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil, earns more money every year than many entire economies. In the past it has stirred controversy by funding groups which deny the human race is causing climate change. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Steve Coll has investigated the company and talks to Lesley Curwen about his book, Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power.  

Plus, Mike Thomson reports on how Olympic sponsors are now protected by a British Act of Parliament. 

And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times presents a jaundiced view of the London Olympics, and workers' attitudes to Olympic transport disruption.

(Image: the Exxon sign. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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