Liam Denning, Columnist

Exxon’s Lobbyist Video Apology Has Many Problems

The best mea culpas show true remorse or at least limit the damage. This one does neither.

July 1, 2021 at 9:21 AM EDT

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp.
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The first problem with Exxon’s apology is that it had to issue an apology.

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