Hi John,

Living next to ExxonMobil’s massive Baytown petrochemical plant “made it almost unbearable to live here because of the trembling, the flares. … It’s chaos in my house, we can’t sleep at night.”

Shirley Williams shared that story at a public hearing in Texas. Dozens of people like Shirley who are also living with explosions, fires, and toxic fumes leaking into their homes packed the hearing to demand ExxonMobil’s permit for the plant not be renewed.

Baytown isn’t the only community trying to stop ExxonMobil from coming in. The corporation wants to build one of the world’s biggest plastics factories down the coast in Port Comfort. The “Coastal Plain Venture” would produce nearly 3 million tons of polyethylene pellets (microplastics) every year. Most would be shipped to Asia.

It’s a monstrous plastics plant that would bring even more toxic pollution to a coastal community and further destroy the environment and any wildlife that still exists.

ExxonMobil is the poster child for the dangerous partnership between Big Oil and Gas and the Trump administration. They are not looking out for families and communities. In fact ExxonMobil has tried to prevent Baytown residents' right to sue over how its pollution has harmed them.

Earthworks is fighting back and standing up to ExxonMobil, Big Oil and Gas, and the Trump administration. Right now we have a rare opportunity to stop them before they obtain a permit to build this new and dangerous plastics plant.

In October, ExxonMobil hit pause on the permit only after a judge struck down the local school board’s decision to negotiate tax breaks for the corporation. But don’t be fooled — they’re ready to spend millions and fight this in court again, any day now, with a sympathetic President and EPA backing them.

We must be ready.

We need your help right now to prep for this fight so we can work with local communities and stop ExxonMobil from getting this permit before it’s too late.

And we can win. Even the U.S. Supreme Court had enough — in June, it forced ExxonMobil to finally pay nearly $15 million in pollution fines they’d dodged for 15 years.

Donate today to help stop ExxonMobil and Big Oil and Gas from poisoning communities.

Thank you for all you do,

Rebekah Staub
Permian-Gulf Communications Manager, Earthworks

P.S. Your support powers our local community organizing, legal strategy, and public pressure to stop permits like ExxonMobil from building massive plastics plants that are harming communities and destroying the environment.