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We will be working to improve this page over time to make it easier for you to sign petitions directly through us. Being a fairly new charitable organization, we have limited workers and need to keep our focus in the most important areas for now. Petitions are extremely important. Making your voice heard is extremely important, but in order to survive, we need to focus on fundraising. Our main goal is environmental protection, including habitat restoration, wildlife preservation, conservation of natural resources and more. We raise money to purchase land in endangered species territory in order to protect and give back to the threatened plants and animals. Our actions also help with the global warming problem, pollution, logging, drilling and land development on land that needs to be preserved for species that have a right to live. Please help us with your continued support. We need to maintain a balanced ecosystem in order to have a healthy planet. You can help today!
Write to us about petitions or causes you want to see on our site. We will listen and promote the issues that are important to you! petitions@wonderfulworld ofwildlife.org
Between 1882 and 2002, ExxonMobil's operations and the burning of its products released an estimated 20.3 billion tons of carbon - or about five percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. ExxonMobil has funded at least 40 organizations that either have sought to undermine mainstream scientific findings on global warming or have affiliated with a small group of "skeptics" who continue to do so. The White House has thanked ExxonMobil for its "active involvement" in crafting U.S. global warming policy, noting that the White House considers ExxonMobil "among the companies most actively and prominently opposed to binding approaches [like Kyoto] to cut greenhouse gas emissions." In June 2005, ExxonMobil hired Philip Cooney, a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute who resigned as Chief of Staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality after it was revealed that he had edited government reports on global warming to reflect the oil industry's position.
ExxonMobil is the only oil company remaining in Arctic Power, the single-issue lobbying organization dedicated to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ExxonMobil is still trying to get out of the $4-$5 billion in punitive damages awarded by a court in 1994 to fishermen, Alaskan Natives, and others injured by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Since 1998, ExxonMobil has hired 13 firms to lobby the federal government on its behalf. It has employed 105 lobbyists itself or through a firm since 1998, of whom 27 formerly worked for Congress or the federal government. Between 1998 and 2004, ExxonMobil gave more than $15 million to organizations working to undermine domestic and international efforts to cut global warming pollution. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has spent almost $37 million on lobbyists to push its agenda on Capitol Hill, including $7.7 million in 2004 alone. ExxonMobil's political action committee (PAC) and ExxonMobil employees gave $8.3 million in campaign contributions to federal candidates and political parties between 1990 and 2004, including $250,000 to the president's 2004 inaugural fund. At the 2004 ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting, 28.3% of shareholders voted for a resolution calling for the company's board of directors to review how it will meet greenhouse gas reduction targets in countries participating in the Kyoto Protocol. These shareholders represent 1.5 billion shares and a market value of $83.8 billion, or about 20.7% of ExxonMobil's total worth. Source www.exxposeexxon.com Please visit their site to learn more and to find out how you can help
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