Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability
Putting corporate citizenship principles into practice
Investors, communities and policymakers often have fundamental questions about the way we manage our social and environmental impacts. Oil and gas development – like all industrial processes – involves risk, and we are dedicated to managing and reducing that risk at every stage of our operations. Our new Corporate Citizenship Report details how we do…
Honoring Sally Ride
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of Sally Ride’s historic voyage on the space shuttle Challenger as the first American woman in space. In the three decades between that journey and her death last year, Sally worked tirelessly to instill a love for science in students. We share Sally’s recognition that science and engineering have…
Why we support the court challenge to the SEC’s misguided transparency rules
Recently a collection of NGOs, led by the organization “Publish What You Pay” (PWYP), wrote to ExxonMobil with an unusual request. The group urged us to disassociate ourselves from a legal challenge to rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement the international transparency provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law. Implied…
In Appreciation: Why Teachers Make All the Difference
Readers: Studies show that the single most powerful way to increase math and science proficiency is by providing quality, effective training for teachers. Yet we know that our nation urgently needs more teachers who can inspire future engineers and innovators. Some estimates say we’ll need more than 100,000 additional math and science teachers by 2020…
One month after Mayflower
Karen Tyrone, vice president of ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, is coordinating ExxonMobil’s efforts in Mayflower, Arkansas, to clean up the spill site. (Overall cleanup operations are being led by a Unified Command, which includes federal, state and local officials, as well as ExxonMobil.) I’ve asked Karen to give an update on the Mayflower cleanup. – Ken…
Defeating malaria with knowledge
In Africa, one child dies every minute from malaria. What makes this particularly tragic is that deaths from malaria are preventable. We have the tools and the knowledge to protect people from this disease, even in regions where it is still highly endemic. Building on its efforts to raise awareness of malaria-related issues, Harvard University…
