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ExxonMobil’s latest target, according to House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Brad Miller (D-NC)? Polar bears. That’s right, polar bears:

A key Democratic congressman accused ExxonMobil last week of pushing junk science intended to fool the public into believing Alaskan polar bears are not in danger.

The U.S. Geological Survey recently concluded that climate change and other factors would reduce the global polar bear population by two thirds by 2050, and wipe out the Alaskan polar bear population entirely. Newer research has indicated that could happen even more quickly.

But a new scientific paper, funded in part by ExxonMobil, called some of that research into question, and has been used in efforts to keep polar bears off the government’s endangered species list.

Yeah, I really have very little to add to this. ExxonMobil. Not a fan.

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