public company
ExxonMobil
Industry Energy
A public oil and gas major whose core products drive climate and ecological harm, with a history of resisting shareholder climate pressure. ExxonMobil scores low because of ecological harm, documented human harm, and person-dependent governance, with poor loss-bearing fidelity reinforcing the negative evaluation.
Why this matters: Ecological harm can set the floor even when a company is legally ordinary.
Letter grade F Malignant High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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Evaluation Overview
F - Malignant
The score turns mainly on Labor Sovereignty, with the largest penalty coming from Ecological Harm.
Strengths
- Labor Sovereignty3/7
- Ownership2/10
- Governance2/10
Penalties
- Ecological Harm-25
- High-Carbon Products-10
- Reversibility-5
- Human Harm-5
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims16
- Direct axis claims16
- Coverage16/16
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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2 / 10 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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2 / 10 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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2 / 10 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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3 / 7 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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2 / 7 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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1 / 7 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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2 / 5 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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2 / 5 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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1 / 5 |
ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Reversibility
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Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders,
founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather
than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
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-5 |
ExxonMobil's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure. Linked evidence
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Human Harm
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Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense,
reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to
0.
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-5 |
ExxonMobil fossil-fuel production creates human-harm exposure through climate and air-pollution pathways; the penalty is below the worst-actor tier because this record is modeled contribution rather than a single adjudicated mass-injury event. Linked evidence
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Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale,
including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued
after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
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-25 |
ExxonMobil sits in the worst-actor Ecological Harm tier because fossil extraction and downstream Scope 3 emissions are central to the business model at global scale. Linked evidence
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High-Carbon Products
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Core products, services, financing, or supply chains that materially
depend on fossil-fuel combustion, high-emissions transport, industrial
animal agriculture, meat, dairy, or other unusually carbon-intensive
activity. This is scored separately from general ecological harm so
ordinary consumers can see carbon-intensive product exposure directly.
Range: -10 to 0.
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-10 |
Worst-tier high-carbon exposure is warranted because fossil-fuel extraction, refining, marketing, or fossil-fuel industry advocacy depends directly on large-scale carbon combustion. Linked evidence
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Toxic Products
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Current sale of products whose ordinary use, exposure, ingredients,
residues, packaging, or formulation creates toxic, addictive, or
consumer-safety risk. Food products receive at least light scrutiny for
artificial colors, artificial flavors, petro-derived additives,
pesticide residues, contaminants, endocrine-disrupting packaging, and
ultra-processed formulation. Ordinary adult nightlife or alcohol service
is not penalized by itself without evidence of predatory marketing,
youth targeting, addiction-extractive design, or unusual product-safety
misconduct. Range: -5 to 0.
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-4 |
ExxonMobil currently sells oil, gas, fuels, and related fossil-energy products as a core business; the product category creates ordinary toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety exposure under the directory's toxic-products screen. Linked evidence
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-2 |
ExxonMobil filed litigation over shareholder climate proposals, demonstrating adversarial handling of climate accountability pressure. Linked evidence
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Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
ExxonMobil's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because ExxonMobil shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise,… Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
High 80/100
16 verified linked claims 16 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 16/16 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 14/20
16 verified linked claims
Source quality 13/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
16 direct claims across 16 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
16/16 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1ExxonMobil is a publicly traded corporation governed through shareholder-facing investor and board structures.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
2ExxonMobil filed litigation over shareholder climate proposals, demonstrating adversarial handling of climate accountability pressure.
- ExxonMobil 2024 shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
3ExxonMobil investor materials show shareholder-facing governance, while climate and shareholder-proposal disputes are handled through corporate and legal channels rather than affected-public control.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
4ExxonMobil’s fossil-fuel production model extracts and sells oil and gas whose lifecycle emissions and pollution costs are borne by the public and future populations.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
5ExxonMobil’s public record shows investor and executive control over fossil-energy strategy, not worker or community control over extraction, safety, and transition decisions.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
6ExxonMobil provides energy-sector employment and products but does not show structural solidarity with people outside the fossil economy who bear climate and pollution costs.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
7ExxonMobil’s climate-accountability disputes and shareholder-proposal litigation show resistance to bearing transition and disclosure burdens demanded by outside stakeholders.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
8ExxonMobil sells essential fuel products while contesting climate accountability pressure, making its market conduct dependent on externalized public costs.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
9ExxonMobil’s products have real energy utility but are fossil fuels with lifecycle emissions and pollution harms, sharply limiting product-integrity credit.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
10ExxonMobil’s scale makes fossil-fuel emissions and climate-risk contribution systemic rather than an isolated product defect.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
11ExxonMobil's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
12ExxonMobil fossil-fuel production creates human-harm exposure through climate and air-pollution pathways; the penalty is below the worst-actor tier because this record is modeled contribution rather than a single adjudicated mass-injury event.
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
- WHO air pollution and healthPrimary public record · 100%
13ExxonMobil's business model includes fossil-fuel production whose Scope 3 emissions dominate lifecycle climate footprint.
- ExxonMobil portfolio life-cycle emissionsGeneral web source · 58%
14ExxonMobil currently sells oil, gas, fuels, and related fossil-energy products as a core business; the product category creates ordinary toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety exposure under the directory's toxic-products screen.
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- WHO ambient air pollution and healthPrimary public record · 100%
15ExxonMobil's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because ExxonMobil shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint.
- ExxonMobil official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- ExxonMobil investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
- ExxonMobil 2024 shareholder proposal statementGeneral web source · 58%
16ExxonMobil has fossil-fuel core high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A public oil and gas major whose core products drive climate and ecological harm, with a history of resisting shareholder climate pressure. ExxonMobil scores low because of ecological harm, documented human harm, and pe…
- ExxonMobil public siteGeneral web source · 58%
- EIA: Gasoline and the environmentPrimary public record · 100%
- EPA: Transportation Sector EmissionsPrimary public record · 100%
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Added tentative AI-generated Toxic Products penalty -4 and directory value for current toxic, addictive, pesticide, livestock, chemical, or consumer-safety product exposure.
Published tentative AI-generated scaffolding score -10 for initial human review under gcd-rubric-v1.