REPORT: Supreme Court justices have close financial ties to oil, even as they decide if cases against oil companies for their climate lies can proceed: 💰Justice Alito has stock in ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66, and up to $100,000 in a fund heavily invested in ExxonMobil; 🧵1/3

Desperate to avoid facing trials over their climate lies, Exxon and other Big Oil companies are once again begging the Supreme Court to help them escape the courtroom. They knew. They lied. And communities deserve their day in court to hold Big Oil accountable.

New: I took a closer look at the Supreme Court justices’ financial and familial ties to the oil industry for @prospect.org as Exxon and Suncor are once again asking the Court to shut down state climate liability cases. I found more than I was expecting.

Plastic is costing Americans $1.1 trillion a year — and that's likely a "significant underestimate," according to a new report by researchers at Duke University. 😩

NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.

It is nuts that recusal policies for the Supreme Court are so weak and self-determined that justices with oil industry holdings & even familial oil industry ties could participate in cases involving the oil industry. Our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social explain: prospect.org/2025/11/07/e...

Exxon is — again — asking the Supreme Court to help the oil giant escape trials over its climate lies. Several justices have "past or present financial or familial ties to the oil industry that could raise questions about their impartiality," @hannahstoryb.bsky.social reports in @prospect.org.

Hear me out: instead of letting climate change slowly but surely destroy the American home insurance and housing markets, we make the fossil fuel companies that knowingly caused the problem pay for the consequences. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ne...

"ExxonMobil will go to nearly any length to avoid accountability for its role in the climate crisis." @ucs.org @ucsclimate.bsky.social

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws aim to hold plastic producers responsible for managing the waste they’ve created. But the success of EPR laws depends on, and reinforces, the idea that plastic is recyclable… when in reality, it's not. 😐

The first-ever lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil companies accountable for the death of a family member in a climate disaster can proceed in Washington State court, a judge ruled. "This is an important step toward putting these companies on trial and securing accountability for the Leon family."

Exxon's lies are global.

A Supreme Court justice with oil money is deciding whether oil companies can escape climate lawsuits. Our investigation reveals how Justice Samuel Alito’s financial ties could shape a ruling that affects every state’s power to hold polluters accountable. www.levernews.com/alitos-oil-i...

NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

Big Oil companies are lobbying Congress for legal immunity to escape accountability for their climate lies and the damage those lies have caused. Honestly, we can’t think of anything scarier than that.

Exxon thinks that disclosing their greenhouse gas emissions violates their right to free speech. 🥴 @emdashsanders.bsky.social unpacks how Big Oil is weaponizing the constitution in attempt to shield themselves from scrutiny and regulation.

The U.S. was primed to develop “clean energy economies of scale more than three decades ago,” writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social. Instead, it “doubled down as a petrostate after its fossil fuel industry fraudulently polarized a substantial portion of its population against climate action.”

Exxon is using the First Amendment to shield itself from scrutiny and regulation, experts say. The oil giant & others have also claimed that lawsuits across the country accusing them of misleading the public about climate change violate their free speech rights. www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-uses...

"This is actually a complete catastrophe, and it’s really quite terrifying. And it also just makes me quite angry that it doesn’t have to be this way. This has been caused by the climate crisis, by fossil fuel companies."

Wow, sweeping coverage of how the oil and gas industry is seeking to kill lawsuits by states and cities to recoup the costs they've had to spend to deal with climate change-worsened disasters. The oil majors knew the dangers of their products, and lied to us. insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

We're seeing warmer ocean waters and stronger, more rapidly intensifying hurricanes after Big Oil spent decades pushing denial, disinformation, and deception to delay climate action and protect fossil fuel profits. It's time for accountability.

Exxon scientists warned executives in 1981 that the continued burning of fossil fuels could "produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population)." They knew. They lied. They must be held accountable.

No industry should be above the law — especially Big Oil. Congress must protect access to the courts for all communities seeking accountability.

No industry should be above the law — especially Big Oil. Congress must protect access to the courts for all communities seeking accountability.

There is draft legislation in Congress that #BigOil has been lobbying on "related to state efforts to impose liability on the oil and gas industry" Meanwhile, 103 House Republicans filed an amicus brief to #SCOUTS urging it to intervene to stop climate suits insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

Exxon scientists warned executives in 1981 that the continued burning of fossil fuels could "produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population)." They knew. They lied. They must be held accountable.

Surprise, surprise — Exxon doesn’t want to disclose its carbon emissions as required by a climate action law I authored, SB 253. Exxon is making an extreme, dangerous free speech argument that would cast doubt on SEC disclosure requirements. They’re scared they won’t be able to greenwash anymore.

🚨Big Oil is stepping up efforts to shut down climate deception lawsuits — including lobbying Congress for total legal immunity, @insideclimatenews.org reports. “Let’s be clear. You don’t seek a [liability] waiver unless you know you’re guilty,” CCI's Richard Wiles told @danad1012.bsky.social.

NEW: A Paris Court has ruled that French oil giant TotalEnergies is misleading consumers with claims about its "net-zero ambitions" and role in the energy transition. It's the first court judgment against an oil company for those claims. www.exxonknews.org/p/oil-giant-...

"My grandchildren know that they’re supposed to tell the truth and clean up their mess. Why can’t Big Oil companies do the same?" asks Maryland Senator Pamela Beidle. "Our communities deserve their day in court, and fossil fuel companies need to pay for the damage they’ve caused."

John Yoo thinks that communities shouldn’t have the right to sue Big Oil for lying about the safety of their products. The law professor has also been accused of war crimes and been investigated for violations of domestic and international law. 🙄

📰 10 years ago today 📰 @latimes.com published an investigation into how Exxon went "from embracing the science of climate change to publicly questioning it" through a multi-million dollar deception campaign. A 1988 internal memo laid out the "Exxon position — Emphasize the uncertainty." 🔽

🎉Historic Court win🎉 The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by @amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4

UNFAIR plan: “It’s not fair that California homeowners have to continually pay more for home insurance while the companies that caused the problem and lied about it keep raking in profits,” says @climateintegrity.org @iylas.bsky.social climateintegrity.org/news/view/ca...

The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major U.S. climate disasters, @climatecentral.org found. Decades of fossil fuel industry deception brought us here. Big Oil must pay.

📰 10 years ago today 📰 @insideclimatenews.org published "Exxon's Uncertainty Campaign in Black and White" #ExxonKnew 🔽 insideclimatenews.org/infographics...

Americans are spending more than ever to recover from climate disasters, while the Big Oil companies fueling the crisis rake in massive profits and pay nothing. 🫨 It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable and #MakePollutersPay.

Americans are spending more than ever to recover from climate disasters, while the Big Oil companies fueling the crisis rake in massive profits and pay nothing. 🫨 It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable and #MakePollutersPay.

What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common? "The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.

Even if you think Big Oil is innocent, Big Oil knows they’re not. @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social explains why the fossil fuel industry is determined to bury the evidence of their climate deception — and how communities are fighting back.

“After decades of empty words, it is time for governments, universities and public institutions to recognize that the fossil fuel industry will always be part of the problem, not the solution to the climate crisis,” [study co-author] Llavero Pasquina said. #BigOilLies #MakePollutersPay #ExxonKnew

California’s “insurer of last resort” is proposing a 36% rate hike after catastrophic wildfires caused billions in losses. Big Oil is fueling this crisis. It's time for policymakers to protect Californians by making these companies "pay for the damage they’ve caused," says CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.

Big Oil companies are desperate to avoid trials over their climate lies. "Their only avenue out of this is to get some kind of a waiver of liability, make the cases go away, bar the courthouse doors, get a 'get out of jail free card'," CCI's Richard Wiles told @afp.com. No immunity for Big Oil!

"The first-of-its-kind study shows that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to global renewable energy — contradicting industry claims to be pioneers in the energy transition."

The U.S. government will now provide more than $34 billion a year to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies — but Chris Wright, the country’s top energy official, is claiming that those subsidies… don’t exist. @emdashsanders.bsky.social unpacks why that might be.

A new study in @nature.com shows the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to renewable energy capacity — despite claiming for years to be leading the energy transition. one law prof said it "could influence a jury" in climate lawsuits www.exxonknews.org/p/study-oil-...

Big Oil companies are desperate to escape accountability for their climate deception and the damage it has caused. Now the fossil fuel industry's political backers are urging the Supreme Court to stop lawsuits against Big Oil before they reach trial. Communities deserve their day in court.

When Big Oil companies claim to be partners in climate solutions, remember: they are lying. If you squint, you might be able to see how much energy generated by Big Oil comes from renewables. For BP and Shell, it's less than half a percent. For Exxon and Chevron? ZERO, according to a new study.

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

Big oil should pay for making life more expensive in Minnesota. My op-ed in @minnpost.bsky.social today. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...