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Membalas thread hansip.ka5kus • 01-07-2021 06:37

Secara etimologi, Luwuk dari asal kata Luwok, Huk, yang artinya "Teluk". Sebelum menjadi nama Kota Luwuk, wilayah ini merupakan pelabuhan masyarakat Keleke, Asama Jawa dan Soho serta Dongkalan. Dalam perjalanan Pemerintahan, Luwuk ditetapkan menjadi pusat pemerintahan oleh Hindia Belan...

Membalas thread hansip.ka5kus • 01-07-2021 06:36

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Luwuk adalah sebuah kecamatan sekaligus pusat pemerintahan Kabupaten Banggai, Provinsi Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia. Luwuk berjarak 610 kilometer dari Kota Palu, ibu kota provinsi Sulawesi Tengah. Setelah pemekaran kecamatan Luwuk Utara, Luwuk Timur dan Luwuk Selatan kecamatan Luwuk mem...

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:34

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

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.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:34

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

The lobbyist described some Republican senators as “a captive audience” because they are reliant on industry backing.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:34

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“As a matter of fact, our CEO is talking to him next Tuesday and having those conversations and just teeing it up and then that way I can start working with his staff to let them know where we are on some of these issues.”

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:34

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

McCoy ticked off the names of other Democratic senators he was working on, including Chris Coons from Delaware, the president’s home state, because he “has a very close relationship with Senator Biden”.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:34

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“Joe Manchin … I talk to his office every week. He is the kingmaker on this, because he’s a Democrat from West Virginia, which is a very conservative state, and he’s not shy about sort of staking his claim early and completely changing the debate,” he said.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:33

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“So it’s a delicate balance. We’re asking for help with taxes over here and we’re saying don’t increase our taxes over here,” he said.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:33

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

McCoy acknowledged that at the same time that Exxon was pushing to maintain tax cuts, it was also seeking government funding to get a carbon capture programme off the ground.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:33

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“It’s gonna accelerate the transition to the extent that I think four years from now it’s going to be difficult to unwind that,” he said.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:33

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

Easley said that the oil and gas industry was 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 would not be able t...

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:32

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“If you lower that threshold, you stick to highways and bridges, then a lot of the negative stuff starts to come out,” he said. “Why would you put in something on emissions reductions on climate change to oil refineries in a highway bill? So people say, yeah, that doesn’t make any sense �...

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:32

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

McCoy said that Exxon sought to restrict the infrastructure bill to spending on “roads and bridges” because it would help limit tax increases but also remove environmental measures the company opposed.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:32

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

McCoy said the oil giant was particularly concerned that Biden’s infrastructure and environmental plans would be paid for by undoing Trump’s corporate tax cuts which Easley described as “probably worth billions to Exxon”.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:32

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

Although Exxon is not so overtly denying climate science any more, McCoy acknowledged that it continues to work to undermine environmental regulations and policies to combat global heating. He called measures in Biden’s American Jobs Plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions “insane” and describ...

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:32

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“Did we hide science? Did we at some point figure out climate change and then decide to bury the evidence? No.”

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:31

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

But McCory denied that Exxon covered up evidence from its own scientists about global heating caused by burning fossil fuels even though the company’s role in misrepresenting the dangers is well documented.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:31

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

“Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes,” he said. “Did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? Yes that’s true. But there’s nothing illegal about that. We were looking out for our investments, we were looking out for shareholde...

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:31

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

In a meeting over Zoom, McCoy admitted that Exxon funded “shadow groups” that worked to misrepresent and deny climate science in order to sow doubt and stall regulation.

Membalas thread User telah dihapus • 01-07-2021 06:31

Mau Yang Sepi Atau Ramai? - Part 1

Greenpeace said that Unearthed reporters posed as recruitment consultants looking to hire a Washington lobbyist for a major client and approached McCoy and Exxon’s former White House lobbyist, Dan Easley, who left the company at the end of the Trump administration.