Shell Oil ditches conservative group that fuels climate change deniers, while drilling for oil in the Arctic
August 12, 2015 | By Joel Connelly
Royal Dutch Shell is severing its ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative groups that has worked in states to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to curb coal plant emissions.
Shell has cited ALEC’s stand on climate change as the reason for not renewing its membership, a decision made as its drilling rig the Polar Pioneer begins controversial drilling of exploratory wells in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.
The oil giant joins such firms as Microsoft, AOL, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Occidental Petroleum and — lately — the Canadian National Railroad which have quit the Council over its climate stands.
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