If Big Oil has done nothing wrong, why are industry lobbyists pleading with Congress for a get-out-of-jail-free card? Fossil fuel companies deceived the public, fueled climate chaos, and stuck taxpayers with the bill. Communities have a right to hold them accountable. 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

🚨 A U.S. House representative said she is crafting legislation to stop climate lawsuits and climate superfund laws that would make Big Oil companies pay for climate damages. It’s time for leaders in Congress to speak out and make clear that Big Oil is not above the law. 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

"Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies."

🚨State lawmakers want to give Big Oil immunity from lawsuits over their wrongdoing. “Anyone in America who breathes the air around them and also believes in corporate accountability ought to be very concerned about these types of end-runs against accountability,” said @govjayinslee.bsky.social

More of this please.

“If the greatest lie the devil ever told was to convince us that he wasn’t real, the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us is to convince us that they don’t want oil.” This @emdashsanders.bsky.social interview with @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social is a must-read

Justice Alito is recusing from a case against Big Oil companies because he has a financial interest in ConocoPhillips. But he has been inconsistent in recusing from climate deception cases where Conoco has an interest. One such case — from Boulder, Colorado — is now being considered by SCOTUS.

What if, instead, we made Big Oil companies pay for the damage their climate lies have caused to infrastructure across the United States? 😡

Trump: "The oil business in Venezuela has been a bust…We're going to have our very large U.S. oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil infrastructure, and start making money."

Former Washington Governor Jay Inslee is right: “People don't like being lied to.” When corporations lie, they should be held accountable. "The fossil fuel industry [has] been lying to the American people for decades. They knew their product was going to cause enormous harm."

NEW: For 25 years, four oil giants sold false climate promises through deceptive ad campaigns. Our report examined 300+ ads from BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell from 2000-2025. Together they push a false narrative that Big Oil is leading climate solutions. In reality, they're fueling catastrophe.

Ahem

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.

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.

"As fossil fuel pollution rapidly warms the planet — producing deadlier and more destructive heat waves, wildfires, storms and other climate disasters — it’s incumbent on journalists covering extreme weather events to help readers understand the link to climate change." - @sammyroth.bsky.social

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. 🙄

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!

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.

"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...

the carbon footprint was developed for british petroleum - so yes

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

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

📰 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.

📰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."

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

This is the future that Big Oil wants.

"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."

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."

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.

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.

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

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.” 👇

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.

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.

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

They knew. They lied. They need to pay.

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.

I wrote about the wrongful death suit against Big Oil filed last week by Misti Leon, whose mother, Julie Leon, was killed in the Pacific NW Heat Dome, a lethal disaster that scientists have concluded would have been “virtually impossible” but for climate change. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

🤔Harvard is electing yet another Exxon lawyer to serve on its board while it fights Trump, even though the firm he (and his predecessor) are at is now... working for Trump. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

The first wrongful death case targeting Big Oil over its role in global warming 👀. It won't be the last. The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome killed Juliana Leon and *hundreds* more people. The lethal event would have been "virtually impossible" without big oil's pollution. #makepolluterspay

Big Oil's victims deserve accountability. For the first time ever, the family member of a climate disaster victim has filed a wrongful death case against major fossil fuel companies in U.S. courts.

Charleston’s climate deception lawsuit against Big Oil is built on a strong legal framework and decades of evidence, CCI's Corey Riday-White writes in @thestate.com. ‪ Big Oil can’t keep sticking communities with the cost to clean up its mess. Charleston deserves its day in court.

c'mon y'all

Trump is trying to intimidate states into dropping their lawsuits against Big Oil. It's totally illegal, but if states go the cowardly way of Columbia University or Paul Weiss, Trump’s mafia-style threats still win. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

"Experts said it’s unlikely that judges will bow to Trump’s expansive arguments that state climate policy is inherently unconstitutional."