Science Group Lauds Resignation of ExxonMobil Citizenship Board Member, Move Signals Growing Concern About Company’s Attacks on Nonprofits

Recent investigations by UCS, InsideClimate News and the LA Times, among others, have uncovered documents showing that ExxonMobil scientists knew about climate change and its global risks by the late 1970s and possibly even the 1960s, and instead of acting on that information, the company instead chose to wage a decades-long disinformation campaign to sow doubt about climate change... Kathy Mulvey, climate accountability campaign manager at UCS [said,] “It speaks volumes that a member of ExxonMobil’s own appointed board for corporate citizenship resigned because the company is such a bad corporate citizen... All companies try to protect themselves, but Exxon’s recent attacks have crossed a line. Going after nonprofits and interfering with independent state investigations shows that ExxonMobil will stop at nothing to protect its bottom line. Ms. Labowitz took a bold stand against ExxonMobil’s climate deception and bullying. I commend her and urge other panel members to call out the company’s egregious behavior and do the same.”