ExxonMobil lobbyists described oil giant's support for carbon tax as PR ploy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Easley said that the oil and gas industry is also lobbying against other environmental measures such as "requirements for the federal government to purchase green energy and renewable technologies and retrofitting federal buildings" that a future Republican administration will not be able to reverse.
42% : Keith McCoy, a senior director in Exxon's Washington government affairs team, was recorded on video in May saying that the company backs a carbon tax "as an easy talking point" and an "advocacy tool" because "there is not an appetite for a carbon tax" and that Republican legislators who oppose taxes in principle will never let it happen.
40% : We're asking for help with taxes over here and we're saying don't increase our taxes over here," he said.
39% : Although Exxon is not so overtly denying climate science anymore, McCoy acknowledged that it continues to work to undermine environmental regulations and policies to combat global heating.
21% : McCoy said that meetings with senators might ostensibly be about a global issue, such as Russia or the Middle East, but the conversations are used to ensure backing on issues of concern to Exxon such as taxes and environmental legislation.

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