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Big oil uncovered

Reporting on the efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry, and its enablers, accountable for the climate crisis, and investigating attempts to disrupt the transition to clean power. Read earlier reporting in the Climate crimes series

9 May 2024

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  • NH Trump<br>Laconia, NH - January 22 : Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump shakes hands with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy, left, at a campaign rally at the The Margate Resort in Laconia, NH on Monday, January 22, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

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    Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage

1 May 2024

  • emissions rise from a smokestack

    Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify

    US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’

30 April 2024

  • Red Exxon logo against the blue sky

    Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

    Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support

22 April 2024

  • people hold signs calling attention to climate change

    Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments

    Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal

21 April 2024

  • composite image of a university campus with a tower lined up next to an oil refinery spewing smoke

    Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

    Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms

18 April 2024

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

    Exclusive: By the middle of the century, pollution from plastic industry could ‘undermine world’s effort’ to control climate crisis

14 April 2024

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

    How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics

    Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope have covered climate disinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode it

10 April 2024

  • Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association

    Protesters slam gas group’s use of customers’ money to thwart climate efforts

    Gas Leaks Project launches campaign targeting the American Gas Association, which claims nearly all utilities in the US as members

22 March 2024

  • Factory buildings with gas coming out from top

    World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds

    Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysis

21 March 2024

  • A blue metal canopy holding four gas tanks, each with a red-and-white sign saying 'Diesel', lies on its side.

    Fossil fuel firms could be tried in US for homicide over climate-related deaths, experts say

    Public Citizen, a non-profit group, proposed the idea last year to prosecute companies for millions of deaths due to climate crisis

9 March 2024

  • a man speaks into a megaphone while another holds a countdown clock titled "climate clock"

    Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis

    Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’

6 March 2024

  • Flare stack at petroleum refinery in Port Arthur Texas<br>M31J6P Flare stack at petroleum refinery in Port Arthur Texas

    ‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health

    New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues

4 March 2024

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    Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

    Darren Woods tells Fortune consumers not willing to pay for clean-energy transition, prompting backlash from climate experts

29 February 2024

  • An oil well near Denver, Colorado, in 2015.

    Colorado landowners sue oil company over clean-up of ‘orphaned’ well

    Group claims oil firms transferred depleted wells to another company which then conspired to avoid clean-up through fraud

28 February 2024

  • Red and yellow shell logo against a yellow background

    ‘A Trojan horse of legitimacy’: Shell launches a ‘climate tech’ startup advertising jobs in oil and gas

    Onward touts a vision of a ‘clean energy future’, but experts say ventures like this are part of fossil fuel firms’ greenwashing plan

21 February 2024

  • group of people holding signs

    Chicago sues fossil fuel companies for role in climate crisis

    Lawsuit targets BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66 and Shell, alleging that they intentionally misled public

19 February 2024

  • banners for New York University hang from a building

    New York lobbyists ‘aiding and abetting’ climate crisis, research reveals

    Lobbying firms work double-duty, representing political interests of victims and perpetrators of climate change in state capital

15 February 2024

  • EU Commission presents its Plastics Strategy to ban single-use products<br>epa06768427 (FILE) - Plastic waste seen at the ALBA Group recycling plant in Berlin, Germany, 15 August 2017 (reissued 28 May 2018). A ruling on 30 July from the appellate division upheld an earlier ruling from New York State Supreme Court that had struck down New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 16-ounce limit on sodas and sweet drinks. The EU Commission presented its Plastics Strategy on 28 May 2018 to ban single-use products, like plastic utensils, straws, coffee stirrers and cotton swabs, in the fight against plastic waste which is a main source of environmental pollution because they are used only once, hard to collect for recycling and can kill animals, fish and sea turtles when they swallow plastic straw. EPA/CLEMENS BILAN

    ‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

    Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

12 February 2024

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    Certified natural gas is ‘dangerous greenwashing scheme’, US senators say

    Group of progressive senators led by Ed Markey call for crackdown on certified natural gas in letter to US federal regulators
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