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Climate change activists divided on how to get ExxonMobil to address issue

One camp fights as shareholders, the other urges investors to divest

Dallas

FIGHT or flight? Those are, in essence, the two very different approaches that the activist community is taking with ExxonMobil these days.

One group is made up of investors who want to hold on to their stakes in the company and prod the oil and gas giant - through shareholder resolutions and by applying steady pressure - to adopt new policies that reflect the realities of climate change.

The other major group is campaigning to make ExxonMobil a pariah and is urging big institutional shareholders to dump all their fossil-fuel stocks.

Both groups showed up in force on Wednesday at Exxon's annual shareholder meeting here.

Outside, several dozen protesters waved signs reading "Arrest Exxon" and...

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