Tillerson leads Exxon's shifting stance on climate change
But environmental activists are sceptical as company has done little or nothing to help put carbon taxes into effect
New York
IN January 2009, Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, gave a speech in Washington that might have seemed impossible even a few years before. He announced that his company supported a carbon tax to help fight climate change.
Carbon taxes are a fee on fuel use, based on how much carbon dioxide that fuel puts into the atmosphere.
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