Kudos to Murphy Oil and Marathon Oil for adjusting their executive compensation frameworks, in part, to better align with their environmental targets. Their willingness alone to change the paradigm is a rarity in the oil and gas industry and deserving of credit.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...