Bye, Bye, Mr. Exxon Guy

commemorate the Exxon lobbyist whogot overhear on tapeadmitting that the caller had poured money into “ shadow group ” to campaign against mood skill ? He ’s formally out of a job . E&E Newsconfirmed with Exxonon Tuesday that Keith McCoy , the lobbyist in question , was no longer at the company .

“ Mr. McCoy no longer figure out for the company , ” Exxon spokesperson Casey Norton said in an email to E&E News . “ This is a secret personnel issue , and we will decline to comment further . ”

For those who need a refresher course , investigator at Unearthed posed as enlisting consultants looking to hire a DC lobbyist for a major client and set up interviews with two then - Exxon employee ( the other interviewee left the company before the exposé aired ) . The secret tapes were free in July , and McCoy ’s interview was far and by the more explosive of the two .

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In addition to utter about the company ’s history of perpetuate clime denial , McCoy also openly admitted that Exxon sees a carbon revenue enhancement , which it has vocally supported , as nothing more than an “ protagonism tool ” He talked up all the politician he ’s on a regular basis in touch with . His metaphor for catch them—“you have bait , you fill that sweetener out and they say , ‘ oh you want to talk about substructure , ’ and then you start to reel them in”—is a pretty sensational price of admission of how things put to work . In a disjoined video unblock a 24-hour interval after the first , McCoy laid out in point howExxon is exploit behind - the - view to fight plastic rule . McCoy laterapologized on LinkedIn , the numeral one social connection forOil guy Who Love To Post . But apparently it was n’t enough to save his job .

Exxon would n’t tell apart E&E News when incisively McCoy left , and his LinkedIn still lists him as employed at Exxon . McCoy still seems to have a role at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation , but , per World Wide Web archives recovered by E&E News , sometime betweenAugust 14andSeptember 8 , the internet site changed his affiliation from “ ExxonMobil Corporation ” to “ Community Advocate . ”

No matter ! Dirty oil executives alwaysseem to feel a waytoland on their feetafter a scandal . possibly there ’s afuture career for McCoy in utilitiesor something .

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