***MEDIA ADVISORY***
Monday, January 30 Teleconference

ExxonMobil’s Record Profits Spell Record Problems for Public

At a time when American consumers have been hard hit by sky-high heating and gas costs, ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, is poised to announce its 2005 annual profits of roughly $32 billion - the largest corporate profits in U.S. history.

Consumer and environmental groups will comment on the company’s egregious record of spending its profits on undermining efforts to slow global warming, maintaining American dependence on oil, lobbying to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and refusing its pay its court-ordered debts to communities devastated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The coalition* underscores the call for effective policies that reign in windfall profits and bad corporate behavior.

WHO:	Gene Karpinski, Executive Director, US PIRG Tyson Slocum, Acting Director Public Citizen Energy Program Ross Mullins, Alaska Commercial Fisherman Rt. Rev. Mark McDonald, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska
WHAT:	Teleconference to address Exxon Mobil’s record profits and the record problems it creates for consumers and the environment
WHEN:	Monday, January 30, 2006 9:30 a.m. eastern time
WHERE:	Tele-Conference 1-800-311-9405 Conference ID# 580440

For more information, contact Elizabeth Hitchcock, U.S. PIRG or Shawnee Hoover, ExxposeExxon (202) 546-9707

*The Exxpose Exxon Coalition is made up of 15 of the nation's largest environmental and public interest advocacy groups including U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, several Alaska groups and others. The coalition is also releasing a new 1-minute animated cartoon lampooning ExxonMobil for its extreme anti-environmental actions. For more information, visit http://www.exxposeexxon.com.