In an up-down position. Upright. Example: trees grow in a vertical direction. (Side-to-side is called horizontal).
Exxon Mobil is being investigated for keeping climate change research from investors. Since 2007, it has disclosed to shareholders about potential risks posed to its bottom line by climate change. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In the battle over the science of climate change, oil and gas money has helped fund the skeptics.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3 percent of the world's oil and about 2 percent of the world's energy. ExxonMobil, like other oil companies, is struggling to find new sources of oil.