Wall Street’s Skirmish With Exxon Is ‘Monumental’

Updated at 12:02 p.m. on Thursday, June 3, 2021.

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Here’s a question that has recently become surprisingly important in the battle against climate change: What is a company?

There’s a legal answer, of course. (A company is an incorporated entity representing an association of persons legal and natural, usually chartered under state law, blah blah blah blah.) But a company can who knew something about distributed organizations,.