The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division, a move one watchdog organization said shows that “Big Oil’s capture of the US government is now complete.”
Robert Levy, who worked at Exxon for 17 years, announced in a recent LinkedIn post that he is departing the company, whose profits surged amid the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran. Levy will reportedly serve as senior counsel at the DOJ’s Energy and Natural Resources Division, which the Trump Justice Department renamed last month from the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, said in a statement Monday that “the new so-called Energy and Natural Resources Division at the Justice Department explicitly aims to abuse emergency powers to drive oil and gas production, override state environmental enforcement, and generally serve at the beck and call of Big Oil.”
By unguarded we mean the full force of the police, military, and spy agencies all lockstep in protecting them.
And there are still more of us.
There were more serfs than kings as well.
Can’t get at it, you’re right. This is Fort Knox. I see twelve armed guards in this photo alone.
I don’t think Gaia would approve of destroying the environment in an act of ecoterrorism.
Pesonally, I just want to see a transition to clean energy.
But she appreciates the continued, but slower destruction, right?
I am one of the few people that recognize we have lost around a billion people to premature death from environmental degredation in the last fifty years.
If you think we need more death and destruction I guess you can bear that responsibility.
I think there has already been enough death, it is time to reflect and change but the entrenched wealthy keep fighting back.
I don’t think ecoterrorism is the way forward.
A transition to clean energy means humans get to continue raping the rest of the natural world. It’s not just fossil fuels that are killing the planet, it’s us replacing the natural world with more us and our livestock.
Hey, if you want to kill humanity that is on you. This is no longer about Captain Planet though.
I don’t wanna kill anything except wild game, I’m here for a good time not a long time.