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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 5d

Big Oil's cheerleaders (yes, including THAT John Yoo) are taking to right wing outlets to beg the Supreme Court to kill climate deception lawsuits.

The fossil fuel industry is terrified of these cases.

They knew, they lied, and communities deserve their day in court to hold them accountable.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 14d

Throwback to when @latimes.com found Big Oil companies were protecting their own infrastructure from climate damages while publicly deceiving the public about the threat.

Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations

As major oil companies fought efforts to address climate change, they were quietly safeguarding their own billion-dollar infrastructure from rising seas and warming temperatures.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 14d

"Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson revealed that an oil CEO told him the fossil fuel industry is privately preparing for dangerous global temperatures - and six feet of sea level rise." www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Big Oil ‘loving life’ - but privately preparing for extreme temperatures

Event in New York City marked the 2025 Climate 100 list, celebrating leaders on diverse paths with a singular goal: tackling the worsening climate crisis

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 15d

the carbon footprint was developed for british petroleum - so yes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "The 'carbon footprint' is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction."

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 16d

"A spokesperson for Cruz ... provided NPR with a response from ChatGPT."

Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 18d

“Cruz's unsubstantiated claim is part of a yearslong effort by the fossil-fuel industry and its allies to fight lawsuits that state and local governments have filed against oil and gas companies.”

Ted Cruz claims without evidence that China is funding U.S. climate lawsuits

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has said China is funding climate lawsuits against American oil and gas companies to weaken the U.S. He hasn't provided evidence to support the claim.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20d

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled

Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 22d

📰 10 years ago TODAY 📰

@insideclimatenews.org published part 1 of its bombshell "Exxon Knew" investigation.

The reporting showed how #ExxonKnew its fossil fuel business could cause "potentially catastrophic events" — but then led efforts to deceive the public and block solutions.

Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago - Inside Climate News

At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slide...

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 21d

📰10 years ago📰 @insideclimatenews.org published its 2nd #ExxonKnew story🔽

"After a decade of frank internal discussions on global warming & conducting unbiased studies on it, Exxon changed direction in 1989 & spent more than 20 years discrediting the research its own scientists had once confirmed."

Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business - Inside Climate News

In 1981, 12-year-old Laura Shaw won her seventh-grade science fair at the Solomon Schechter Day School in Cranford, N.J. with a project on the greenhouse effect. For her experiment, Laura used two sou...

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 22d

Ten years ago, the world learned that #ExxonKnew as early as the 1970s that its fossil fuel business would fuel a climate crisis — but that they purposefully buried the science to protect their profits.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Industry groups have said an immunity shield is not their first priority."

Meaning, it's a priority.

Big Oil is not above the law. Congress must reject any proposal to shield fossil fuel companies from facing accountability in court.

Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Sep 4

Big Oil is turning to its political allies in a desperate bid to escape accountability.

“It’s a nonstop effort by the oil and gas industry to somehow get a get-out-of-jail-free card,” said CCI’s Richard Wiles.

They knew their fossil fuel business harms communities. They lied. They need to pay.

Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide

www.nytimes.com

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Sep 4

Big Oil is turning to its political allies in a desperate bid to escape accountability.

“It’s a nonstop effort by the oil and gas industry to somehow get a get-out-of-jail-free card,” said CCI’s Richard Wiles.

They knew their fossil fuel business harms communities. They lied. They need to pay.

Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Aug 27

"CEO Darren Woods discussed Exxon’s possible return [to Russia] with Trump at the White House in recent weeks."

Exclusive | Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia

Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022

www.wsj.com

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Darren Kaplan @darrenkaplan.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is what actual lawfare looks like, in case you're searching for an example.

Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is the future that Big Oil wants.

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

www.theguardian.com

Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Just as our experiences online are being steadily enshittified by Big Tech companies, our time on this earth is being steadily enshittified by Big Oil companies and their climate-denying allies in the federal government."

Climate change is ‘enshittifying’ our lives - The Boston Globe

It’s a word that was made up to describe how the internet is getting worse. Now it also applies to the way we experience the environment.

www.bostonglobe.com

Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Aug 18

Instead of holding Big Oil to account for lying about how their products fuel climate change, 16 Republican attorneys general
"signed a letter urging the federal government to shield energy companies from climate change lawsuits."

"In other words, protect the industry, not the people it harms."

Ohio protects polluters, not people, from climate costs and crisis: Leila Atassi

Ohio’s leaders have lulled residents into thinking the state is insulated from climate change, but by protecting fossil fuel interests instead of holding them accountable, they’ve ensured taxpayers wi...

www.cleveland.com

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Aug 13

Do you think the fossil fuel industry should be above the law?

For months now, we’ve heard rumblings of Big Oil companies lobbying Congress for a get-out-of-jail free card. But in the last few weeks, their allies have started to say the quiet part out loud. CCI's @iylas.bsky.social explains.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Aug 1

The District of Columbia’s lawsuit against Big Oil is under attack. 🚨🚨🚨

It’s all part of a bigger play by the fossil fuel industry to secure special legal protections from climate accountability lawsuits.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 4

Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change theonion.com/slaught...

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jul 31

As local governments struggle to respond to increasingly devastating and costly climate disasters, Big Oil is lobbying Congress to escape accountability.

Find out why the National Association of Counties opposes efforts to give "companies immunity from lawsuits over damages and costs.” 👇

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Jul 25

So ... who put language in this House bill to defund D.C.'s climate lawsuit against Big Oil??? 👀

A great question for more reporters and officials to ask.

From an article: We reached out to ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP for comment but didn’t hear back. The House Appropriations Committee similarly did not respond to our questions about who pushed for the rider to be included in the spending bill, which still requires approval by the full House and Senate.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jul 23

No industry should be above the law.

Communities "must have access to legal and legislative remedies in order to hold fossil fuel companies accountable" and "make polluters pay for the damage they have caused,” says a letter signed by @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social.

Oregon Congress members stand up for climate accountability | Center for Climate Integrity

Oregon's congressional delegation is urging President Trump to repeal an executive order aimed at helping Big Oil escape accountability

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Jul 21

They're essentially saying oil & gas companies should get a special exemption to lie to D.C. consumers without consequences.

Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jul 21

🚨Congress is now attacking D.C.'s climate fraud lawsuit against Big Oil.

A new bill would block D.C. from using federal funds to enforce local consumer protection laws “against oil and gas companies for environmental claims.”

It's part of Big Oil's ongoing efforts to escape accountability.

Bill Would Block Funds for D.C. Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil | Center for Climate Integrity

After A Court Ruled that D.C.’s Lawsuit Against Big Oil Could Advance Toward Trial, Congress Seeks to Cut off Funds as Part of a Wider Effort to Shield Big Oil from Liability

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · Jun 25

They knew. They lied. They need to pay.

Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jun 25

Senator @whitehouse.senate.gov: Climate change imposes immense costs on state and local governments. Who's gonna pay for that? Taxpayers?

Or "the responsible party: the fossil fuel industry."

Communities are taking Big Oil companies to court to make them pay for climate damages.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jun 24

Dishonest and polluting corporations should not be above the law. Full stop.

If Big Oil's allies get their way, communities, businesses, and their own constituents would lose access to the courts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their climate lies and the massive damage they've caused.

E&E News: GOP attorneys general want legal immunity for fossil fuel industry

Red states are urging the Trump administration to take steps to quash lawsuits that seek to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for climate change.

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