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.
Exxon's research laid the groundwork for a 1982 corporate primer on carbon dioxide and climate change prepared by its environmental affairs office. Marked not to be distributed externally, it contained information that has been given wide circulation to Exxon management..