Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: EOG Resources exhibits policy engagement that is oppositional to science-aligned climate policy, albeit with very limited positions on climate policy. The company advocates for a prolonged role for oil and gas in the energy mix and has memberships to industry groups that undertake obstructive advocacy on climate regulations.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: EOG Resources has limited engagement on top-line messaging on climate change. In the 2023 Sustainability Report published in October 2024, the company CEO Ezra Yacob appeared broadly supportive of action for "addressing climate change risk". However, it is unclear if the company supports climate change mitigation in line with IPCC recommendations. InfluenceMap could not find any recent evidence of the company’s acknowledgement of climate science, or the position on Paris Agreement and climate change regulation.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: InfluenceMap could not find any recent evidence of the company’s engagement with climate regulations. However, in October 2022 comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company advocated for flexibility in the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule to allow alternative methane measurement methods.
Positioning on Energy Transition: EOG Resources supports a continued role for oil and gas in the energy mix. In its 2023 Sustainability Report, published in October 2024, the company stated that oil and gas “will remain an essential part of the long-term global energy supply.” The company’s CEO Ezra Yacob echoes this position; at a conference in November 2023 Yacob claimed that any energy transition scenario “still requires investment in oil and gas,” as reported in a transcript in Seeking Alpha.
US Lobbying Disclosure Act filings made on behalf of EOG Resources in 2025 disclosed the company’s engagement with policies related to energy development and carbon capture and storage (CCS). However, the company has not disclosed the outcomes sought from these engagements.
Industry Association Governance: EOG Resources has disclosed a list of its industry association memberships on its website, when accessed in August 2025. However, the company has not provided details of indirect policy engagement undertaken via these groups. EOG Resources has memberships to associations that engage negatively on climate policies, such as the US Chamber of Commerce and American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC).
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information, see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically.
This summary was last updated in Q3 2025.