Month: August 2020

David Kaiser, Rockefeller Heir Who Fought Exxon Mobil, Dies at 50

  • John Schwartz
  • July 16, 2020
  • The New York Times

A great-great grandson of John D. Rockefeller, he steered one of his family’s philanthropies to a feisty stance on the oil giant’s role in climate change. David Kaiser, a scion of the Rockefeller family who steered one of its philanthropies into a pitched confrontation with the company that provided the family’s prodigious wealth, died on