The Washington Nationals ballpark is the first stadium to be LEED Silver Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Yet the Nationals continue to accept millions of advertising dollars from Exxon, by far one of the world’s biggest contributors to global warming.

Nationals executives need to hear: “Exxon = $4 gas + Global Warming. NOT baseball!”

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Which is precisely why the original amount of the damages was set at 5 billion. This was, after all, a punitive damages case, meaning that the penalties imposed on Exxon were supposed to pack a big enough punch to teach the corporation a much needed lesson about environmental and social responsibility. Unless the penalty was significantly steep vis-