ExxonMobil and the climate science denial machinery that it has helped to build over the years are now under more scrutiny than ever before.
| Organization |
ExxonMobil Funding 1997-2015 |
| AEI American Enterprise Institute |
$4,199,000 |
| CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute |
$2,100,000 |
| US Chamber of Commerce Foundation |
$2,000,000 |
| ALEC American Legislative Exchange Council |
$1,804,200 |
| American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research |
$1,779,523 |
| Frontiers of Freedom |
$1,272,000 |
| Annapolis Center |
$1,198,500 |
| National Black Chamber of Commerce |
$1,100,000 |
| Atlas Economic Research Foundation |
$1,082,500 |
| Manhattan Institute |
$1,065,000 |
| George C. Marshall Institute |
$865,000 |
| Heritage Foundation |
$870,000 |
| National Taxpayers Union Foundation |
$775,000 |
| Heartland Institute |
$686,500 |
| Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy |
$680,000 |
| National Center for Policy Analysis |
$645,900 |
| CFACT Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow |
$587,000 |
| Communications Institute |
$515,000 |
| Washington Legal Foundation |
$495,000 |
| Center for American and International Law (formerly called the Southwestern Legal Foundation) |
$491,650 |
| George Mason Univ. Law and Economics Center |
$475,000 |
| FREE Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment |
$450,000 |
| National Center for Public Policy Research |
$445,000 |
| Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
$417,212 |
| Mercatus Center, George Mason University |
$405,000 |
| International Policy Network – North America |
$390,000 |
| Citizens for a Sound Economy (FreedomWorks) |
$405,250 |
| Acton Institute |
$365,000 |
| Media Research Center (Cybercast News Service formerly Conservative News) |
$362,500 |
| Institute for Energy Research |
$337,000 |
| Congress of Racial Equality |
$325,000 |
| Reason Foundation / Reason Public Policy Institute |
$356,000 |
| Hoover Institution |
$370,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation |
$300,000 |
| Capital Research Center (Greenwatch) |
$265,000 |
| Federalist Society |
$240,000 |
| Center for Defense of Free Enterprise |
$230,000 |
| National Association of Neighborhoods |
$225,000 |
| National Legal Center for the Public Interest |
$216,500 |
| Center for a New Europe-USA |
$170,000 |
| American Council on Science and Health |
$165,000 |
| Chemical Education Foundation |
$155,000 |
| PERC Property and Environment Research Center (formerly Political Economy Research Center) |
$162,500 |
| Weidenbaum Center (formerly Center for the Study of American Business) |
$190,000 |
| Cato Institute |
$140,000 |
| Federal Focus |
$125,000 |
| Fraser Institute, Canada |
$120,000 |
| Media Institute |
$140,000 |
| American Spectator Foundation |
$115,000 |
| International Republican Institute |
$115,000 |
| Center for the Study of CO2 and Global Change |
$100,000 |
| Environmental Literacy Council |
$100,000 |
| Tech Central Science Foundation |
$95,000 |
| American Conservative Union Foundation |
$90,000 |
| Landmark Legal Foundation |
$90,000 |
| Independent Institute |
$85,000 |
| Free Enterprise Education Institute |
$80,000 |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation |
$80,000 |
| Institute for Study of Earth and Man |
$76,500 |
| Independent Women’s Forum |
$75,000 |
| Consumer Alert |
$80,000 |
| Mountain States Legal Foundation |
$75,000 |
| Advancement of Sound Science Center |
$50,000 |
| American Friends of the Institute of Economic Affairs |
$50,000 |
| Free Enterprise Action Institute |
$50,000 |
| Regulatory Checkbook |
$50,000 |
| Arizona State University Office of Climatology |
$49,500 |
| Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri |
$40,000 |
| Africa Fighting Malaria |
$30,000 |
| Institute for Senior Studies |
$30,000 |
| Science and Environmental Policy Project |
$20,000 |
| Lexington Institute |
$10,000 |
| Institute for Policy Innovaton |
$5,000 |
| GRAND TOTAL |
$33,799,735
|
Graham Readfearn reports for DESMOG:
At its most recent AGM, the oil and gas giant faced a barrage of questions and resolutions over its position on climate change. Then there is the not insignificant matter of investigations by a group of attorneys general that allege the company lied about its knowledge of the risks of burning fossil fuels. ExxonMobil is retaliating.
The company has pleaded innocence, with CEO Rex Tillerson telling the company’s shareholders that his views on climate science were perfectly in line with the United Nations.
But the latest disclosures on donations by ExxonMobil, reported publicly here for the first time, show it continues to support organizations that claim greenhouse gases are not causing climate change, or that cuts to emissions are a waste of time and money.
Organizations including the American Enterprise Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the National Black Chamber of Commerce — all organizations with a record of misinformation on climate science — all received grants in 2015 from ExxonMobil. The 2015 tally brings the total amount of known Exxon funding to denial groups north of $33 million since 1998.
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In 2007, after years of criticism, ExxonMobil claimed to have turned a corner on the science.
In a corporate responsibility report, the company said: “In 2008, we will discontinue contributions to several public policy groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.”
ExxonMobil still funding denial
But many climate change campaigners and scientists have illustrated how the company continued to support organizations spreading climate science denial.
Now the oil giant is facing lawsuits from a team of state attorneys general after investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times showed the company’s own scientists were aware of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1980s.
A DeSmog investigation found evidence that Exxon’s knowledge went even further back – to the late 1970s.
More than 200 scientists had signed a letter asking AGU to cut sponsorship ties to ExxonMobil over its decades-long funding of organizations pushing doubt about the causes and implications of climate change.
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