The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Talking About ESG Like Never Before

摘要

The U.S. fossil fuels industry is still churning out emissions, but it's talking more than ever about what to do about them.That, at least, is the conclusion of a Bloomberg analysis of conference calls involving the nation's oil and gas behemoths, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Kinder Morgan Inc. A searchof ESG-related terms reveals how in the space of just a few quarters, the management teams of the industry's leading companies went from being almost able to avoid the topic entirely to devoting significant time discussing it.