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Inside the viral takedown of Exxon’s Darren Woods
ExxonMobil’s CEO was about to get awarded for “STEM leadership” at a fancy New York luncheon. Then Climate Defiance showed up.
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Maui is suing Big Oil
The county is seeking to recover the costs of climate-fueled disasters Big Oil knowingly caused — including increasingly destructive wildfires.
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Methane trackers meet a new moment
The Trump administration is undoing reporting and regulation of a powerful climate pollutant. Can nonprofit and third-party trackers fill the gap?
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Abbott says megafloods are “just part of nature.” The fossil fuel industry disagrees.
One month before the Texas floods, gas industry representatives gathered to discuss how to protect themselves from worsening extreme weather.
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Why climate disinformation matters
New reports show just how much influence fossil fuel companies have over how public funds for climate action are spent.
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Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’
New research in the journal Nature Sustainability reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after…
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Why the oil and chemical lobby is taking aim at New York’s plastic waste bill
The bill’s passage could be pivotal in the fight to rein in plastics, and the industry knows it.
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"Hawaiʻi will not be deterred" from suing Big Oil
Facing record-breaking fires and floods, and now attacks from the Trump administration, the state is suing oil companies to make them pay for a…
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Supreme Court denies Exxon request to get rid of citizen lawsuits
The oil major’s bid was one of several fossil fuel industry efforts to get a Supreme Court shield from accountability.
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Hoboken brings RICO charges against Big Oil
In a first for climate accountability lawsuits, Hoboken, New Jersey, is charging fossil fuel companies with violating state racketeering laws.
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The law firm helping Big Oil weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend fossil fuel companies and silence the industry’s critics.
Oil giant Total’s net zero claims broke the law, court rules
The ruling is the first court judgment against an oil company for statements about its role in combatting the climate crisis.
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