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We started Project PolluterWatch to hold people like Exxon Mobil
CEO Rex Tillerson accountable by educating the public about
polluter influence peddling and propaganda. Big corporations know
that the public doesn't trust them. So they funnel millions of
dollars to front groups to do their dirty work. No one has
perfected this over the years quite like ExxonMobil.
That's why we are asking you to help launch Project
PolluterWatch and to put up these "wanted" posters in your hometown
so that your neighbors can be on the lookout for this dangerous
climate criminal.
Download our toolkit for simple instructions and tips for
putting up the posters around town as well as information on how to
report back your work.
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Junk Science
Under Tillerson's watch, Exxon Mobil insidiously promised to cut
back on the millions it's spent on funding junk science, but
continued its bankrolling to the point of prompting U.S. Senators
John Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to call for the
company to stop its "climate change denial campaign."
Uproot the Astroturf!
ExxonMobil has scaled up its astroturfing operations, funding
so-called grassroots concerned citizens' groups like the American
Petroleum Institute's Energy Citizens and FreedomWorks (formerly
Citizens for a Sound Economy) that are actually run by
ex-government officials and corporate lobbyists. ExxonMobil's
astroturf campaign shows what its "corporate citizenship" really
looks like -- paid supporters pretending to be grassroots activists
with Rex Tillerson calling the shots behind the scenes.
Greed vs. The Planet
Under Tillerson, Exxon Mobil has refused to pursue robust
research and development of renewable fuels, unless the company can
make windfall profits without investing in them. A real catch-22.
How will we move toward a more sustainable future if the world's
largest company refuses to invest in that future?
Your Money or Your Quality of Life
Exxon Mobil posted a record-breaking $45.2 billion in profits in
2008, but paid out some of the highest fines in history for its
violations. Exxon paid $500,000 for a 17½-hour release of five tons
of sulfur dioxide, half a ton of ammonia, 130 tons of carbon
monoxide, and 900 pounds of hydrogen cyanide at its Baytown
refinery in Texas.
Exxon Mobil's emissions are giving kids asthma across the world,
another crime against a healthy future perpetrated by
Climate-Criminal-in-Chief Rex Tillerson.
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