This post has links to DocumentCloud for our collection of paid ads (aka Advertorials) that Mobil then ExxonMobil placed, virtually every week for decades, on the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages starting in the early 1970s.
This is not an exhaustive collection of every advertorial placed by these companies. Instead it contains the environmentally-themed ads and specifically climate-oriented ads that we found in newspaper archives. Please get in touch and send additional ads if you have them.
1972.1.24 Mobil ad in New York Times: The $66 Billion Mistake
1981.2.12 Mobil ad in New York Times: End the Coal Nightmare
1981.7.30 Mobil ad in New York Times: Health and Air Quality Standards
1981.8.13 Mobil ad in New York Times: Cost of clean air
1981.8.6 Mobil ad in New York Times: Grand Canyonizing of America
1982.3.26 Mobil ad in New York Times: Clean Air Act
1984.8.16 Mobil ad in New York Times: Lies They Tell Our Children
1986.10.21 Mobil ad in Los Angeles Times: Taxes miss target
1989.7.6 Mobil ad in New York Times: People who live in greenhouses…
1990.12.13 Mobil ad in New York Times: Cows, bulls, and clean air
1990.8.2 Mobil ad in New York Times: Cooler heads of summer
1990.9.27 Mobil ad in New York Times: Delivering as promised
1992.4.2 Mobil ad in New York Times: Making sense out of nonsense
1993.12.9 Mobil ad in New York Times: Environment or Politics
1993.2.18 Mobil ad in New York Times: When the goal is clean air
1994.10.27 Mobil ad in New York Times: Whos in the drivers seat
1994.6.9 Mobil ad in New York Times: Voluntary industry regulation
1995.9.28 Mobil ad in New York Times: The sky is not falling
1996.12.12 Mobil ad in New York Times: A policy agenda for tomorrow
1996.12.5 Mobil ad in New York Times: Electric cars – still a bumpy ride
1996.7.18 Mobil ad in New York Times: Less heat, more light on climate change
1996.7.25 Mobil ad in New York Times: With climate change, what we don’t know can hurt us
1997.10.16 Mobil ad in New York Times: CNN and the value of instant replay
1997.10.20 Mobil ad in New York Times: Climate change – where we come out
1997.10.23 Mobil ad in New York Times: Global climate change
1997.10.30 Mobil ad in New York Times: Reset the alarm
1997.10.6 Mobil ad in New York Times: Science – What we know and don’t know
1997.11.13 Mobil ad in New York Times: Climate change – A prudent approach
1997.12.18 Mobil ad in New York Times: The Kyoto conference
1997.12.4 Mobil ad in New York Times: Climate change – a degree of uncertainty
1997.3.6 Mobil ad in New York Times: Stop, look, and listen before we leap
1997.6.23 Mobil ad in New York Times: Climate Change – Lets get it right
1997.7.31 Mobil ad in New York Times: Senators Byrd and Hagel
1997.8.14 Mobil ad in New York Times: When facts don’t square with the theory, throw out the facts
1998.1.29 Mobil ad in New York Times: Post Kyoto, What’s Next?
1998.11.5 Mobil ad in New York Times: The Kyoto Protocol – a painful response
1999.1.14 Mobil ad in New York Times: An agenda for tomorrow
1999.12.10 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Merger Ad
1999.12.2 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Once In A Lifetime
1999.12.9 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Tomorrows Energy Needs
1999.4.15 Mobil ad in New York Times: Helping earth breathe easier
1999.7.22 Mobil ad in New York Times: In our backyards
1999.7.29 Mobil ad in New York Times: Where We Are And Where We May Be Heading
1999.8.12 Mobil ad in New York Times: Scenarios For Stabilization
1999.8.19 Mobil ad in New York Times: Lessons Learned
1999.8.5 Mobil ad in New York Times: Some Ways To Make A Difference
2000 ExxonMobil ad in Washington Post: Political Cart Before A Scientific Horse
2000.1.27 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Making Gasoline From Tar
2000.1.6 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Resolutions For The New Century
2000.10.12 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Energy And The Environment In Developing Countries
2000.10.19 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: The Third Branch
2000.10.28 ExxonMobil: Unbalanced Caution
2000.10.5 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: On The Side Of The Tide
2000.11.9 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: The Big Push For Natural Gas
2000.12.7 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Conservation – The First Path
2000.2.10 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: A Bull Market With A China Shop
2000.2.17 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Generating Heat
2000.3.16 ExxonMobil: Do No Harm
2000.3.23 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Unsettled Science
2000.3.30 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: The Promise Of Technology
2000.4.20 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: An Anniversary To Celebrate (Earthday)
2000.7.6 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: The Promise Of Hybrids
2000.8.3 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Powering The Future Economy
2000.9.7 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Sanctions With Gums
2001.1.11 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: A Wildcat’s Legacy
2001.1.17 ExxonMobil ad: Policy For New Admin
2001.1.4 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Punitive Damages – The “Wild Card”
2001.2.8 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: From Darkness To Light
2001.3.29 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Pounds Of Prevention, Tons Of Cure (Valdez)
2001.4.10 ExxonMobil ad: Moving Past Kyoto
2001.4.17 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: …To A Sounder Climate Policy
2001.4.26 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Resurgence Of A Killer (Malaria)
2001.6.7 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Science From Sea To Shining Sea (Liberty Science Center)
2001.7.12 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: China Trade: Self-Interest And Statesmanship
2001.7.19 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Action, Not Talk – Cogeneration And Climate
2001.7.26 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Saudi Arabia – The Opening For Natural Gas
2001.8.2 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Sifting and Winnowing
2001.9.6 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: How Much Oil Is There?
2002.1.24 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Improving Energy Use
2002.10.3 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2002.11.22 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Responsible Path Forward On Climate
2002.5.2 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Hydrogen – Promise And Challenge
2003.1.23 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Tight Gas (Fracking)
2003.10.16 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Natural Gas – A Need For Action
2003.10.2 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Natural Gas – Finding A Balance
2003.10.4 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: By 2020 The World Needs To…
2003.2.20 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Win-Win-Win
2003.2.3 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: The Global Climate Energy Challenge
2003.5.29 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: A Growing Role For Natural Gas
2003.6.17 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Building The Energy Future
2003.7.10 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: A Look Back At The Look Ahead
2003.8.21 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Energy Beyond 2020
2003.8.7 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Building A More Energy-Efficient World
2004.1.21 ExxonMobil ad: Climate Research Directions
2004.1.21 ExxonMobil ad: Weather And Climate
2004.1.22 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: Weather And Climate
2004.3.18 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: All Head Safe (Valdez)
2004.5.12 ExxonMobil ad in New York Times: We’re All In This Together