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ExxonMobil seeking to boost growth, continue work on lower-emissions technologies including biofuels and carbon capture

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billion barrels of discovered recoverable resource. million net acres in one of the world’s most promising exploration plays and is finalizing development plans for the Carcara resource, which will begin production by 2024. A great example is the new hydrocracker at our Rotterdam refinery which started up late last year.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. This is important because many industry lobbying groups argue that current levels are too stringent and should be relaxed. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. million U.S.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. In general, high scorers exhibit long-standing commitments to protecting public health, preserving natural resources, and decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic activity.

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