About the report

About the report

ExxonMobil undertakes lobbying to advocate for our positions on issues that affect our company, the energy industry, and overall competitive free markets. We have a responsibility to our shareholders, employees, customers, and communities to represent their interests in public policy discussions that are related to our industry and impact our business.

ExxonMobil has a rigorous process to determine which public policy issues are important to the company. This process includes soliciting input from internal business lines, Low Carbon Solutions, Upstream, and Product Solutions (Downstream and Chemical), as well as corporate departments including strategic planning, human resources, law, tax, and public and government affairs. We also engage with a wide range of third parties – both individuals and organizations – to ensure external perspectives are considered. ExxonMobil’s Vice President for Public and Government Affairs, who reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for the stewardship of identified key public policy issues, which guide the company’s lobbying efforts and political contributions.

Lobbying and political engagement are included as part of the Board’s stewardship of the company’s enterprise-risk framework. Each year, the Vice President for Public and Government Affairs presents the company’s political contributions, lobbying activities and lobbying expenditures to the full Board, along with the Board’s Environment, Safety and Public Policy Committee, which is comprised entirely of independent directors. The directors review the efforts and associated expenditures. In addition, in-depth reviews of the company’s priority issues are conducted with the Management Committee several times a year as part of the process.

This report provides additional detail of our direct and indirect climate-related lobbying activities at the federal, state and local level, as well as our grassroots lobbying communications. In addition, the report provides all lobbying expenses that have been reported to us by all 501(c)(6) and 501(c)(4) organizations that we support. This includes more than 100 organizations and 100% of the lobbying expenses incurred, as well as the issues lobbied.

It also provides an assessment of ExxonMobil and its affiliates’ climate-related lobbying activities in relevant trade associations for calendar year 2023. Our assessment identifies organizations that are active and potentially influential in the discussion and development of climate policy. It is our expectation that each of these organizations are constructive participants in the discussion and development of climate policy that aims to ensure energy security and helps society reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Key assessment highlights from the 2023 report include:

• ExxonMobil assessed a total of 65 organizations, including 10 new organizations.
• Three organizations are classified as partially aligned:
  • American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM),
  • Louisiana Mid-continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA)
  • Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA)
• One organization is classified as misaligned:
  • American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC)