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USA Today (Reuters), May 30, 2007

About three dozen protesters -- outnumbered by police -- staged a peaceful demonstration outside the meeting against the company's funding of groups they believe deny or distort the science of global warming. The protesters waved banners with slogans like "People Before Profits" and chanted "No More Junk Science." "Exxon Mobil is double-crossing the public and policy makers. It's avoiding real changes and continuing to fund groups that purposefully distort the science of global warming," said Shawnee Hoover, the campaign director of Exxpose Exxon, a coalition of green and scientific groups. They say the company still funds about 40 organizations that the environmental group classified as "global warming deniers," shelling out over $2 million to the groups in 2006.

The New York Times, Feb 10, 2007

Shawnee Hoover, who runs Exxpose Exxon, accused the company of using its might to finance what she called the "global warming deniers," a phrase that seems meant to echo those awful words "Holocaust deniers." The Union of Concerned Scientists has compared Exxon Mobil to the tobacco industry in its efforts to sow "disinformation" about the realities of global warming.

CNN, Feb 5, 2007

The American Enterprise Institute sent the letters to scientists offering them $10,000, plus travel and other expenses, to highlight the shortcomings in a report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... The letter was obtained by CNNMoney.com through ExxposeExxon, a coalition of environmental groups including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists. "It is a major problem that scientists make arguments against climate change...that they can't back up [with] peer reviewed data," said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director for ExxposeExxon. Exxon has been criticized in the past for funding groups that promote what many experts believe to be junk science. "This has become a strategy of Exxon's over the years," said Hoover. "The number one way to fight Kyoto was to insert doubt into people's mind."

ABC News, January 3, 2007

The UCS [Union of Concerned Scientists] report…calls the financial connections between ExxonMobil and a number of organizations -- including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the George C. Marshall Institute, Heritage Foundation and the Media Research Center-- part of an effort to obscure the scientific evidence on global warming. "ExxonMobil has, in a cynical and manipulative strategy, helped create a kind of echo chamber to amplify the views of a carefully selected group of spokespeople whose work has been largely discredited by the scientific community," said Seth Schulman, the report's primary author, in a conference call today with reporters.

The Washington Post, July 28, 2006

"Once again we see Exxon competing with itself for record profits," said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director of Exxpose Exxon, a group made up of environmental and public interest advocacy organizations that was formed last year.

CNN, July 28, 2006

The activist group, Exxpose Exxon, a group that says it's dedicated to informing and educating people about Exxon Mobil's efforts to prevent action on global warming, said the company will continue to break records until consumers are given energy alternatives during a conference call Thursday. Exxpose Exxon, a coalition of some of the nation's largest environmental and public interest advocacy organizations, says the company has repeatedly questioned the seriousness of global warming and actively opposes efforts to cut global warming pollution. "Exxon wants to preserve [its] market by not doing anything about global warming," said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director, on the conference call.

CBS News (Associated Press), May 31, 2006

"We're asking Exxon Mobil to start investing in clean alternative renewable energy like its competitors do," said the director of Washington-based Expose Exxon, Shawnee Hoover. She also criticized the company's funding of groups that question scientific theories that the burning of oil-based fuels are contributing to global warming.

Dallas Business Journal, May 31, 2006

"Exxon Mobil is pumping lies as well as our wallets and the American public is fed up," says Shawnee Hoover, campaign director for Washington-based Exxpose Exxon. "The technology is there to bring down consumer energy costs, create employment and reduce global warming pollution, but Exxon Mobil refuses to participate."

Fortune Magazine, April 3, 2006

The barons of big oil filed warily into the ornate Senate hearing room and raised their hands to be sworn in…. Standing at the back of the room were two dozen college students wearing EXXPOSE EXXON T-shirts. It promised to be a classic showdown…. In a shabby townhouse on Capitol Hill, a few blocks from where Tillerson faced down the lions of the Senate, Exxon is drawing a different type of attention than it's accustomed to from Wall Street admirers. This is the home of Exxpose Exxon, established last year by a coalition of organizations ranging from radical Greenpeace to mainstream Sierra Club. While Big Oil has had its adversaries going back to Ida Tarbell and the muckrakers of Rockefeller's day, Exxon has always seemed to draw more fire. There are no comparable campaigns aimed at Chevron or ConocoPhillips. Exxpose Exxon director Shawnee Hoover says her group was set up to protest the company's support for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, its skepticism about the causes of global warming, its refusal to pay $4.5 billion in punitive damages to fisherman affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and its puny investments in alternative energy. Hoover is calling on consumers to boycott Exxon and will begin spotlighting the company's donations to political candidates. It doesn't hurt her cause that, as Hoover puts it, "no company is like Exxon—it's the stereotypical, old-school company." Representatives from U.S. Public Interest Research Group, an Exxpose Exxon backer, have enjoyed canapés and conversation with John Browne, CEO of BP, but Exxon hasn't offered Hoover or her colleagues even a cup of coffee. The closest they've come to a face-to-face meeting, says U.S. PIRG's Athan Manuel, was handing Lee Raymond a letter on Capitol Hill last year. "He groaned," says Manuel.

The New York Times, March 30, 2006

"They have to be part of the solution," said Kert Davies, a research director at Greenpeace. "They have too much money; they are too powerful. Without Exxon pulling with the rest of the world, it will take longer to solve global warming." For Shawnee Hoover, the campaign director of Exxpose Exxon, a coalition of the nation's leading environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, "Exxon has this prehistoric culture." She added: "They dig their heels in."

The Washington Post, January 31, 2006

"Exxon needs to be reinvesting those profits in a way that is going to benefit the whole of the American public, like clean energy, for one," said Shawnee Hoover, the campaign director for Exxpose Exxon.