The research adds utility companies and their affiliated groups to the growing list of actors that spent years misleading the public about the threat of climate change.
Massachusetts’ highest court on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, rejected a bid by ExxonMobil to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state that accuses the oil giant of misleading the public about the role its fossil fuels play in causing climate change.
Eight oil and gas companies are planning hundreds of expansion projects in the coming years, even as the world is already on track to burn through its remaining carbon budget, a new report finds.
Casey Harrell, the 43-year-old co-founder of BlackRock’s Big Problem, knows he may not have long to live thanks to the neurodegenerative disease ALS. But that won’t stop him from holding the U.S.’s biggest investors to account.
The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global warming.
Vermont on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, became the latest state to sue some of the country's top fossil fuel companies by alleging they misled the public about the impact their products have on climate change.
The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
Released July 7 by the World Weather Attribution network, a group of scientists from universities across the globe, a new study finds that the unprecedented heat in Western Canada and other parts of the Pacific Northwest wouldn’t have been possible without human-caused climate change.
The ouster of the three Exxon board members is another blow to fossil fuel companies facing growing pressure to refocus their businesses in light of a dangerously warming world.