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“Civilization could prove a fragile thing.” A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010”...
05/06/2026

“Civilization could prove a fragile thing.”

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5°C.

“Perhaps those in industrial countries could cope with a rise in sea level (the Dutch example) but for poor countries such defences are not possible. The potential refugee problem in GLOBAL MERCANTILISM could be unprecedented. Africans would push into Europe, Chinese into the Soviet Union, Latins into the United States, Indonesians into Australia. Boundaries would count for little – overwhelmed by the numbers. Conflicts would abound. Civilisation could prove a fragile thing,” the report warned.

Despite privately acknowledging the dangers of using its products as intended, Shell chose to publicly sowed doubt about the science and fight efforts to regulate its pollution.

05/05/2026

Do you think corporations should be above the law?

In 2024, Chicago filed a lawsuit against some of the country’s biggest fossil fuel companies and their top lobbying group for lying about the climate harms caused by their products.

Now Big Oil is asking Congress for legal immunity, which could effectively bar the public from suing the industry for any wrongdoing, ever. This could not only shut down Chicago’s case, but the dozens of other cases being brought against Big Oil by other U.S. cities, states, and tribes.

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing Minnesota to stop the state’s climate deception lawsuit against Exxon, Koc...
05/04/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is suing Minnesota to stop the state’s climate deception lawsuit against Exxon, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute from going forward.

President Trump last year ordered the Justice Department to take “all appropriate action to stop” the growing number of climate lawsuits facing fossil fuel companies, many of which are advancing toward trial. Under former Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Justice Department sued Michigan and Hawaiʻi to prevent both states from suing Big Oil companies. Both states have since filed their lawsuits and federal courts have dismissed the Trump administration’s complaints.

“This is a desperate effort to shield the architects of Big Oil’s decades-long climate deception from facing accountability. Big Oil and the Trump administration are clearly terrified that Minnesota’s lawsuit will reveal exactly how these defendants defrauded the public about the dangers of fossil fuels,” said CCI’s Richard Wiles.

Big Oil corporations must be held accountable for the damages their climate lies have caused, in five exhibits. In 1965,...
05/04/2026

Big Oil corporations must be held accountable for the damages their climate lies have caused, in five exhibits.

In 1965, the president of the American Petroleum Institute, Big Oil’s top trade group, told members that burning fossil fuels “could cause marked changes in climate” and that “time is running out” to “save the world’s peoples.”

For millions of Americans, time has now run out. As of March 2026, the U.S. has sustained 431 weather and climate disasters where overall damages reached or exceeded $1 billion—with a total cost exceeding $3.1 trillion. Much of the financial burden is landing on taxpayers and disproportionately affecting our nation’s most vulnerable residents.

Leaders in Illinois’ largest county just passed a resolution to oppose giving Big Oil corporations legal immunity. 👏“We ...
04/30/2026

Leaders in Illinois’ largest county just passed a resolution to oppose giving Big Oil corporations legal immunity. 👏

“We all know the basic principle: you break it, you buy it,” Cook County Board Commissioner Bridget Degnen said during a press conference about the resolution. “For decades, fossil fuel companies were told by their scientists that their products caused climate change, resulting in significant costs to the public. Knowing they were responsible for climate change, fossil fuel companies led decades of disinformation campaigns to deflect and delay regulation, and inhibit clean energy, all with the goal to reap record profits.”

The Cook County resolution was passed the same week that Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that aims to put Big Oil above the law.

04/29/2026

Ted Cruz (R-TX) is one of Big Oil’s most vocal defenders in Congress. Now he’s taking aim at the growing number of lawsuits aiming to hold fossil fuel corporations accountable for lying to the public about climate change.

Minnesota’s consumer fraud case against ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API), and Koch Industries is the l...
04/28/2026

Minnesota’s consumer fraud case against ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API), and Koch Industries is the latest lawsuit against Big Oil companies to move into discovery, after the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the three fossil fuel industry.

The victory for Minnesota comes at the same time that API and the fossil fuel industry are pushing federal legislation that would give the companies sweeping immunity from climate lawsuits before they can reach trial.

“The courts are doing their job, and their decisions in this climate deception lawsuit are clear: Minnesotans have a case to be made, and we deserve our day in court,” said Attorney General .  “As we have said all along, our taxpayers should not be on the hook for the enormous financial costs of surviving the climate impacts resulting from these defendants’ deceptive conduct. Onward to discovery and trial.”

The Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026, introduced earlier this month by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Harriet Hageman ...
04/27/2026

The Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026, introduced earlier this month by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), would shield some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies from laws and lawsuits that could make them pay billions of dollars in climate damages, nearly half a century after Exxon scientists first predicted the dangers of burning fossil fuels.

Read the full ExxonKnews story in our bio! 👆🔗

🎨: Tess Abbot. 📸: Tom Witham/USDA and Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

👋 All hands on deck! Sign the petition—🔗 in bio.Last week, Republican lawmakers introduced federal legislation to give f...
04/25/2026

👋 All hands on deck! Sign the petition—🔗 in bio.

Last week, Republican lawmakers introduced federal legislation to give fossil fuel companies legal immunity from laws or lawsuits that could hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis.

The “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026” — HR8330 and S4340 — would force the rising bill for climate change onto taxpayers and set a harmful precedent that protects corporations instead of communities.

Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation in the House and Senate to put Big Oil above the law.The bills...
04/24/2026

Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation in the House and Senate to put Big Oil above the law.

The bills—also dubbed the “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026”—would dismiss existing climate accountability lawsuits and prohibit new legal action against the fossil fuel industry, leaving everyday Americans on the hook for all of the costs of climate change.

“Polluters should pay for the climate damage they caused, not taxpayers,” told Newsday in a statement.

After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation that would shie...
04/23/2026

After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced sweeping legislation that would shield Big Oil companies from attempts to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis.

The “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026,” introduced by Rep. Harriet Hageman in the House and Sen. Ted Cruz in the Senate, comes as fossil fuel companies are facing a growing wave of climate accountability lawsuits and laws from communities across the country.

A legal shield for Big Oil would force the rising bill for climate change onto taxpayers and set a harmful precedent that protects corporations instead of communities.

Tell Congress: No immunity for Big Oil. Petition in bio. 👆🔗

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