Following a public spat over climate change legislation, oil giant ExxonMobil has pulled its membership from the Koch brothers-backed anti-climate-change lobbying group, American Legislative Exchange Council. Neither ExxonMobil nor ALEC has commented publicly on the reasons for the company’s departure, but the move comes after ExxonMobil had an internal dispute with the organization late last year over moves to push the Trump administration to overturn a key legal finding that led the government to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide. Exxon logo ALEC is known for its success in producing model legislation that is frequently passed by state legislatures, as well as for its pro-oil interests. ExxonMobil is only the latest oil company to abandon ALEC, after BP, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum all left the organization in recent years. Silicon Valley giants Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Yelp all left […]