For immediate release: January 5, 2005

ConocoPhillips Drops Out of Arctic Power,
Joins BP As Second Oil Company to Leave Arctic Drilling Lobby Group;
Shareholders Withdraw Resolution on Issue

ConocoPhillips, the largest oil company in Alaska, has dropped out of Arctic Power, the single-issue lobbying group that promotes opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling. The decision by the Houston-based oil giant means that the two largest operators on Alaska's North Slope - BP and ConocoPhillips - are no longer members of the Arctic drilling lobby group.

"We applaud the company's decision to withdraw from Arctic Power," said Ecopledge's Michael Leone. "ConocoPhillips clearly recognized that drilling in the Refuge would be risky business, and that participating in Arctic Power's pro-drilling efforts was not ultimately in the company's best interests."

In response to ConocoPhillip's decision, Ecopledge and Green Century Capital Management have decided to withdraw a shareholder resolution filed with the company regarding drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

Over the last two years, ConocoPhillips' shareholders and environmentalists have pushed the company to address the risks associated with drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge. An Arctic Refuge shareholder resolution filed by Green Century received more than 9 percent of the shareholder vote in May 2004. Green Century refiled the Arctic Refuge resolution in December 2004, but offered to withdraw the resolution if the company dropped out of Arctic Power.

A coalition of environmental organizations and socially responsible investors first asked ConocoPhillips to drop out of Arctic Power at the company's annual meeting in May. A letter authored by U.S. PIRG and Green Century went on to state that dropping out of Arctic Power would demonstrate to the socially responsible investment and conservation community that ConocoPhillips is no longer actively advocating drilling in the Arctic Refuge. An October 2004 coalition letter to ConocoPhillips reiterated the offer.

BP dropped out of Arctic Power in November 2002, after a similar campaign by the PIRG Arctic Wilderness Campaign, the World Wildlife Fund, Green Century, and Ecopledge.

Since 1998, the PIRG Arctic Wilderness Campaign and its partners have targeted the four oil companies that have expressed interest in drilling in the Arctic Refuge. The campaign has filed 15 shareholder resolutions and generated more than 65,000 e-mails, phone calls, and letters to BP, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, and ChevronTexaco.

Resolutions have also been filed this year at ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil that ask each company to report on the risks of operating in sensitive areas such as the Arctic Refuge. These resolutions will be voted on at each company's 2005 annual meeting.

"We hope that these companies will follow ConocoPhillips' lead in protecting shareholder value as well as the environment by withdrawing from Arctic Power," said Leone.

* * *

Ecopledge is a public interest organization that focuses on improving corporate environmental practices. It engages in shareholder advocacy in partnership with investment adviser Green Century Capital Management, Inc.

Green Century Capital Management, Inc. administers the Green Century Funds, the first family of no-load, environmentally responsible mutual funds.

###