ExxonKnews: Feds: Exxon knew about nooses, racial discrimination at Louisiana worksite

“ExxonMobil knew or should have known” that it was allowing racial harassment in the workplace, according to a new lawsuit from the federal government.

ExxonKnews

March 15, 2023

I couldn’t leave the office for a week without a new “ExxonKnew” revelation coming out in my absence — but this time, it had nothing to do with climate change.

ExxonMobil is facing a new lawsuit from the federal government for failing to act on its knowledge of racial discrimination at its petrochemical complex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and for subjecting a Black employee who reported finding a noose at his worksite “to a hostile work environment on the basis of race.” 

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