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    Rockefellers give Exxon Mobil lashing over the environment

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    11.22.2016

    Two years ago, the Rockefeller Brothers fund divested its holding in Exxon Mobil, the company created* by John D. Rockefeller. Now, more descendants of the world's richest oil baron are launching a public broadside against the company that made their fortune. In an editorial for the New York Review of Books, fifth-generation Rockefeller David Kaiser (of the Rockefeller Family Fund) talks about Exxon's complicity in our looming ecological catastrophe.