| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29/07/2015 - 01/01/1982 | Exxon Mobil | Leaked 330 page documents know as "Deception Dossiers" show that major oil companies were aware of climate change linked to their products for decades, and used deceptive tactics to reverse the information and block public policy. "These include forged letters to Congress, secret funding of a supposedly independent scientist, the creation of fake grassroots organizations, multiple efforts to deliberately manufacture uncertainty about climate science." | Union of Concerned Scientists | Climate Change, Fraud | ||
| 29/03/2013 | Exxon Mobil | 'Mayflower' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; release of 3,000 barrels of oil; homes evacuated; violation of federal Clean Water Act and state environmental laws - $5.07 million. | Mayflower, Arkansas, United States | Reuters | Pollution | |
| 15/08/2012 | (Exxon Mobil) | Energy Companies failure to disclose wells obscures fracking environmental hazards. | United States | Bloomberg | Pollution | |
| 21/08/2011 | (Exxon Mobil) | San Francisco Judge orders oil companies to clean up fuel additive MTBE contamination caused by leaking storage tanks. | CA, United States | SFGATE | Pollution | |
| 02/07/2011 | Exxon Mobil | 'Yellowstone River' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; estimated 1000 barrels of oil leak into river; Oil executives criticised for conflicting accounts of breach and regulators accused of failing to ensure safe operation. | Yellowstone River, MT, United States | The Guardian | Fraud, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 14/07/2010 | (Exxon Mobil) | Twenty-six parties ordered to cleanup contaminated soil from yearlong (1961 - 1980) disposal of hazardous substances. Costs - $2.2 million. | Coventry, RI, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 31/12/2008 - 01/01/2008 | Exxon Mobil | Company records show handing over hundreds of thousands of pounds to climate change denial lobby groups, despite public pledge to cut such support. | USA | The Guardian | Climate Change, Lobbying | |
| 01/02/2007 | Infineum (Co-owned by Exxon Mobil) | Use and distribution of new chemical in commercial auto products for several years before the chemical had undergone a required review. Civil penalty - $950,000. | Linden, NJ, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency, (2) | Fraud, Negligence | |
| 07/03/2006 - 02/03/2006 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) (Field co-owned by Exxon Mobil) | 'Prudhoe Bay' five-day oil spill caused by knowing neglect of corroding pipelines; around one million oil liters leaked. | Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States | BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 31/12/2005 - 01/01/2005 | Exxon Mobil | Toxics Release Inventory counted 1.1 million pounds toxic waste released on environment by Torrance refinery. | Los Angeles County, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 16/02/2005 | (Exxon Mobil) | Service stations operating in 1990s released large amounts of gasoline containing MTBE - potential carcinogen - nearby water wells, significantly contributing to Charnock Sub-basin drinking water problem. Replacing Santa Monica drinking water $3 million/year & $1.5 million investigation costs & cleanup costs over $200 million. | Santa Monica, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency, (2) | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 21/01/2005 | (Exxon Mobil) | 300 Russian Islanders protest against oil companies for depletion of fish stocks, and destroyed forests and pastures allegedly caused by Sakhalin platform. | Sakhalin, Russia | Planet Ark - Reuters | Pollution | |
| 12/03/2003 | (Exxon Mobil) | Companies ordered to clean up Santa Fe Springs superfund site from year-long dumping of metal wastes, PAHs and VOCs. Cleanup costs - $9.08 million. | CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 01/06/2001 - 01/01/1989 | Exxon Mobil | Allegations of knowing assistance to human rights violations including torture, rape, and murder by employing and providing material support to Indonesian military forces, who committed the alleged offenses during civil unrest. | Aceh, Indonesia | Business & Human Rights Resource Center, The New York Times | Beatings & Violence, Killings, Terrorism, Torture | |
| 19/08/1999 | (Exxon Mobil) | Group of 39 companies deemed responsible for disposing hazardous waste at Superfund site; 18,500 cubic yards of soil contaminated by VOCs, PCBs and lead. Cleanup settlement - $23 million. | Piscataway, NJ, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 31/12/1989 - 01/01/1973 | (Exxon Mobil) | 49 private and public entities sent millions of pounds of hazardous waste in Casmalia disposal facility causing 'longstanding environmental problems'. Cleanup costs - over $100 million. | Santa Maria, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 24/03/1989 | Exxon Mobil | 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill occurs after oil tanker is struck by reef; considered the most devastating human-caused environmental disaster; leak of 11 million US galons of oil; immense wildlife death toll; local fishing industry irreparably damaged; Exxon widely criticized for its slow clean-up response - $500 million in punitive damages. | Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova, AK, United States | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, US Environmental Protection Agency | Habitat Extinction, Negligence, Pollution |
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