Exxon Mobil Corp. was suspended from the Climate Leadership Council, a pro-carbon tax group backed by conservation groups and some of the world’s biggest corporations.The move comes just weeks after an Exxon lobbyist was secretly recorded by Greenpeace saying that the oil giant only voiced support for a carbon tax because it knew such a policy wouldbe almost impossible to implement. Exxon was one of the CLC’s founding members when it was formed in 2017; other participants include BP Plc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., andMicrosoft Corp..“After careful consideration, we have decided to suspend ExxonMobil’s membership in both the Council and Americans for Carbon Dividends, our advocacy arm,” CLC Chief ExecutiveOfficer Greg Bertelsen said in a statement on Friday.
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机译：埃克森美孚公司被暂停在气候领导委员会，由保护群体和世界上一些最大的公司支持的亲碳税集团。 这一举动是在埃克森游说者秘密记录的绿色和平的纪录后的几周内，说石油巨头只是对碳税的支持，因为它知道这样的政策会 几乎不可能实施。 埃克森是2017年成立时的CLC创始成员之一; 其他参与者包括BP PLC，Goldman Sachs Group Inc.，以及 Microsoft Corp .. “仔细考虑后，我们决定暂停埃克森美孚在理事会和美国人的会员资格，我们的宣传股份，”CLC首席执行官 官员Greg Bertelsen在星期五的一份声明中说。
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