Exxon Secrets

Exxon Company Anti-Environmental Activity Browser

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2006/cmsc838s/viz4all/v4a_dom.html

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/

Implementation: Flash
Application Domain: Business Network
Visualization Category: Network
Data Set: database of the anti-environmental research CLEAR, the Cleasringhouse on Advocacy and Environmental Research, static
Source: Josh On, Amy Balkin; Greenpeace

Review by Maryam Farboodi

Developed for Greenpeace, as a research tool for journalists and the interested public, Exxon Secrets is Documenting Exxon-Mobil's funding of climate change skeptics and provides a research database of information on the corporate funded anti-environmental movement. Certain corporations, think tanks, conservative institutions and their spokespeople, call global warming a hoax. This project pretends to show how ExxonMobil is quietly funding these organizations by exposing the perfidious network of connections between ExxonMobil and the organizations and people that benefit from their funding.