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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New GigaPoll.co.uk: 75% say big business 💼 should pay for emissions cuts 🌍 + environmental protection 🌱 (just 6% disagree ❌).

Echoes our @MakePollutersPay polls: 8 in 10 back making oil & gas 🛢️ pay.

👉 Over to you, Rachel Reeves.
🙏 Thanks
@dalevince.com

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · 14d

President Trump says "global warming is a hoax" 🌍❌. "Drill baby drill!" 🛢️⛽

Stinging rebuke from UN Secretary General:
🔬 The science demands action.
⚖️ The law commands it.
💰 The economics compel it.
🗣️👥 The people are calling for it.

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 18d

Today we’re at the #MakeThemPay demonstration in London to demand that those responsible for climate breakdown and rising inequality pay up.

While polluting corporations and billionaires are allowed to destroy our planet, ordinary people are made to live with the consequences.

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · 18d

We're on the streets today to tell the Government #MakePollutersPay!

Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰

Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join the Climate Bloc on the 20th of September and #MakePollutersPay

Make Them Pay @makethempay.bsky.social · Aug 20

⏰ ONE MONTH TO GO! ⏰

The stakes couldn’t be clearer:
🥵 we’re coming out of the 4th heatwave of the summer
🔥 a record amount of land has been burnt by wildfires already this year
🤑 and CEOs of the most polluting industries in the UK are getting richer

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Jul 23

With its massive profits, the oil and gas industry has a chance to lead the energy transition.

Instead, it is driving its business into a dead end and leaving everyday people to pay the price of climate catastrophe. #ClimateAction

www.un.org/en/climatech...

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Jul 7

Have you registered for this evenings training session??

Last chance!! Register now!!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mass-lobby...

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Jun 27

We are proud to join almost 30 ✝️☪️✡️🕉️🕍⛪ faith leaders leaders urging the government to raise public funds by taxing polluters and extreme wealth in the run up to COP30. 🙏💚@taxjusticeuk.bsky.social‬ @makepolluterspay.bsky.social‬ @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social‬ www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Quakers urge government to tax polluters before global climate talks

Quakers in Britain have joined faith and civil society leaders in urging the UK government to tax fossil fuel companies and the very wealthy to fund climate action ahead of COP30.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨 REGISTER NOW FOR OUR MPP TRAINING SESSION AHEAD OF THE MASS LOBBY!

Are you heading to the Mass Lobby on 9th July?

Join our friendly online training with top tips, talking points, and Q&A:

Monday 7 July at 6:30pm on Zoom

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mass-lobby...

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨BREAKING: 8 out of 10 surveyed around the world think that polluters - not the people - should pay for climate damages.
That’s an OVERWHELMING majority saying - it’s time to make polluters pay.

Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👇

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

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Make Them Pay @makethempay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Billionaires have broken Britain. #MakeThemPay to fix it.

On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:

✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay

Spread the word today!

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Make Them Pay @makethempay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our NHS is crumbling, energy bills keep rising and the climate crisis is a bigger threat than ever. But billionaires keep getting richer.

It’s time to tax the super-rich and #MakeThemPay.

20 September, central London. Join the National Demonstration.

A text-based graphic reading 'National Demonstration. Make Them Pay. Central London. 20 September.'

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Jun 6

🔥 50+ MPs joined the #MakePollutersPay event in Parliament - a big step forward!

But we need more.

Will you email your MP? It takes 3 mins.
Tell them: it's time oil giants + the super-rich paid up for the climate crisis. 💥 shorturl.at/bFulv

#ClimateJusticeNow

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Apr 23

Make polluters pay! We're proud to stand alongside more than 35 orgs in supporting this joint policy platform, calling for the biggest polluters to pay their fair share in tackling the climate and cost of living crises taxjustice.uk/blog/new-pol...

Taxing polluters for a fairer, greener society: our new policy platform

Proposing a new ‘polluter pays’ approach to tackling the climate crisis: introducing our joint new policy platform.

taxjustice.uk

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Apr 16

Daily Briefing | Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels

➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/6KDBu4M

➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/94X9PTa

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Apr 17

DeBriefed | India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar

✍️ Written by @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org

➡️ buff.ly/CkloLYm

Sign up to our newsletters: buff.ly/19Qg1Rh

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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · Apr 9

Trump is trying to ban states from holding oil and gas companies accountable for climate costs, and make working people clean up polluters' mess.

@makepolluterspay.bsky.social's new poll finds it's wildly unpopular. 71% of voters, including 55% of Republicans want polluters to pay their fair share.

New polling from Data for Progress and Fossil Free Media finds that voters believe that oil and gas companies misled the public about the climate damages their products would cause and should be on the hook for some of the costs. Moreover, voters oppose providing oil and gas companies legal immunity from lawsuits and legislation seeking to recover climate-related damages.

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End Fuel Poverty Coalition @endfuelpoverty.bsky.social · Apr 1

🔥 Energy industry profits hit £500 BILLION — while households freeze.

Since the energy crisis began in 2020, just 20 energy firms have made over half a trillion pounds in profit.

➡️ www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/energy-indus...

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An image of a stack of newspapers. A headline from The Mirror reads "Energy giants rake half a trillion in profits while househoulds' bills go through the roof"

A caption reads "This isn't a headline - it's a national crisis"

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · Mar 21

Inequality is soaring, public services are crumbling & the climate is collapsing. We need investment to fix these crises.

📢 Join the spring budget rally & tell the Chancellor: tax the super-rich, don't cut public services!
📅 Tues 25, 5pm, Westminster

secure.waronwant.org/page/167449/...

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Mar 19

🚨BREAKING🚨

The trial verdict is in. A jury in the Morton County courthouse found Greenpeace International and two Greenpeace entities in the United States liable for over US$ 660 million combined in Energy Transfer’s meritless SLAPP lawsuit.

#WeWillNotBeSilenced

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Mar 19

The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit

A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 19

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury

Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’ A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy…

www.theguardian.com

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Mar 16

1/ 🧑‍⚖️🔥 Key moment for climate accountability: A German court will rule whether #FossilFuels companies can be held liable for climate harms they knowingly caused.
📍🐦 Live from Hamm🇩🇪—I’ll report in real-time from the courtroom here
#SaulvsRWE #ClimateLitigation #KlimaKlage
🔽🧵

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Oxfam Policy & Practice @oxfamgbpolicy.bsky.social · Mar 10

Read the full paper: Fair, Fast, Funded and Feminist: A pathway to a just and transformative climate transition within and beyond the UK policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/fa...

Fair, Fast, Funded and Feminist: A pathway to a just and transformative climate transition within and beyond the UK - Oxfam Policy & Practice

The world is in the grip of a climate emergency. Urgent and equitable action is essential to prevent yet further escalating climate impacts that are devastating communities worldwide and to safeguard ...

policy-practice.oxfam.org

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Oxfam Policy & Practice @oxfamgbpolicy.bsky.social · Mar 10

No one should be left behind in the shift to a greener future. As the world transitions to renewable energy, we risk simply swapping one unjust system for another. Natalie Shortall on a new Oxfam paper that calls on the UK to get behind a “just transition”. views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/03/no-o...

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