FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  July 11, 2005
CONTACT: Brian O'Malley, 202-675-6279


         COALITION LAUNCHES LANDMARK CAMPAIGN: "EXXPOSEEXXON.COM"
    Environmental and Public Interest Groups to Expose the Truth about
                    ExxonMobil’s Environmental Policies


WASHINGTON (July 12, 2005) - Exposing and changing ExxonMobil’s
irresponsible and deceptive behavior is the mission of a new campaign
called "ExxposeExxon.com," launched outside ExxonMobil service stations
nationwide today by a coalition of twelve of America’s largest public
interest and environmental groups with a combined membership of more than
6.4 million.

ExxposeExxon.com will reveal the truth about the world’s largest and most
profitable oil company’s actions, including actively lobbying Congress to
open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, trying to avoid
paying all the damages due to those harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil
spill, and funding organizations that work to discredit the science behind
global warming.

"For years, ExxonMobil has intentionally put its own profits above a clean
environment and the health of America’s families.  As a result, we are
asking all Americans not to accept a new job at ExxonMobil, invest in the
company, or to buy ExxonMobil’s gas and products," stated the ExxposeExxon
coalition in a letter sent today to ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond.

Americans want clean sources of energy that protect public health, reduce
pollution, curb global warming, and save consumers money.  Instead,
ExxonMobil has continually worked to make the U.S. more dependent on oil
and failed to invest a significant sum of its considerable profits into
clean sources of energy, unlike competitors such as BP and Shell.

As part of the campaign, the coalition of groups will reach out to
Americans across the country and ask them to help "Exxpose Exxon" by
refusing to work for ExxonMobil, refusing to invest their hard-earned
dollars in ExxonMobil, and refusing to buy ExxonMobil products.  The
ExxposeExxon campaign is launching this effort today in more than fifty
cities from coast to coast, including Washington, DC, Austin, Boston,
Chicago, Des Moines, Honolulu, New York, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. The
coalition will reach out to the public through the Internet, through the
news media, through door-to-door contact, bumper stickers and t-shirts.

As part of its education effort, the ExxposeExxon campaign, which includes
the Alaska Wilderness League, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace, Natural
Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and U.S. PIRG (Public Interest
Research Group), today also released a new report, "ExxonMobil Exposed:
More Drilling, More Global Warming, More Oil Dependence." The report
details how the Texas-based oil giant has consistently moved the U.S.
backward, not forward, on energy policy.  Among the report’s findings are:

·     ExxonMobil is the only oil company remaining in Arctic Power, the
single-issue group lobbying to open the         Arctic Refuge to drilling.
·     Between 1998 and 2004, ExxonMobil gave more than $15 million to
organizations working to hide the facts about   global warming.
·     As increased demand for dwindling world oil and gas supplies earned
ExxonMobil a record-breaking $25.3 billion      in net income in 2004,
company executives dismissed suggestions that they invest in renewable
energy,           calling it "uneconomic."
·     While ExxonMobil has pledged $100 million over 10 years for research
at Stanford University into new energy    technologies, such as burying
carbon dioxide emissions, the company’s commitment is just two days worth
of          its 2004 profits and is dwarfed by its spending on oil and gas
exploration in 2004 alone - more than $1        billion.  In addition, the
Stanford project has no goals and no guarantee that ExxonMobil will
apply any of      the technology it helps develop.

"Our nation can chart a course towards a cleaner, healthier energy future
by harnessing the American ingenuity that has marked this country
throughout its history.  ExxonMobil can be a part of that solution or
continue to fight it tooth and nail," stated the coalition’s letter to Mr.
Raymond.

The ExxposeExxon campaign is reaching out to the American public, calling
on ExxonMobil to:

·     Protect, instead of drill, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
drop out of Arctic Power.
·     Support mandatory caps on global warming pollution and stop funding
junk science to cloud the debate on global      warming.
·     Save consumers money at the pump and ease our oil dependence by
investing in renewable energy and energy        efficiency and supporting
fuel efficiency.
·     Pay all of the punitive damages awarded to fishermen and others
harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

"Thanks to ExxonMobil’s refusal to pay the $4.5 billion dollars in
court-ordered punitive damages to victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill,
thousands of fishing industry workers like me were forced out of the
business or in a number of cases had to declare bankruptcy," said Ross
Mullins, founder and chairman of the Prince William Sound Fishermen
Plaintiffs' Committee.

For more information, please visit www.ExxposeExxon.com.

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