Feigning Shock Over Lobbyist Comments, ExxonMobil Continues Funding Climate Denial Groups

ExxonMobil’s most recent worldwide giving report, covering 2019, shows it funds multiple climate denial groups.

ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Darren Woods said yesterday he was “shocked” that one of the company’s lobbyists was caught in a Greenpeace sting video saying that the company is being disingenuous when it publicly claims to support policies like a carbon tax to address climate change.

But the company funds multiple organizations that sow doubt about climate science and fight against policies that could prevent worst-case scenarios from coming to fruition and causing millions of people and other animals to die from climate change-fueled disasters.

ExxonMobil’s most recent worldwide giving report, covering 2019, shows it funds multiple climate denial groups.

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