Today at #COP30: advocates from the US Gulf South, Latin America & Africa protested the unchecked expansion of massive new gas projects, which harm communities & undermine climate goals. This is part of a global call for a fossil fuel phaseout, which has set the tone for COP30: dont-gas-africa.org

For years, fossil fuel lobbyists have swarmed international climate summits with a mission to derail progress, spread disinformation & dodge accountability. An international commitment to information integrity at #COP30 can help remove barriers to strong national climate solutions.

New analysis from #KickBigPollutersOut shows that 1600+ fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to #COP30 climate talks, proportionally a 12% increase from last year😖Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber almost every country delegation, with 1/25 registrants repping the fossil fuel industry 😦

Organized climate obstruction activities are actively delaying the human response to the #climatecrisis, directly sabotaging international cooperation, making the Paris Agreement goals unattainable, and putting the lives of millions at risk. We must ban it from #COP30

ExxonMobil's new lawsuit against California’s agenda-setting climate disclosure laws underscores what decades of investigation and litigation have shown: they will go to nearly any length to avoid accountability for their role in the climate crisis. blog.ucs.org/laura-peters...

Ahead of the #COP30 international climate negotiations in Brazil, I decided to imagine what a COP free from #fossilfuel industry influence would look like. #ClimateAccountability blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

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

Advocates in New Zealand secured a public apology from Z Energy after legal action. The petroleum retailer took out full-page ads in newspapers apologizing for "any confusion" caused by a greenwashing 2022 PR campaign that misrepresented its focus on alternative fuels & emissions reductions.

Fossil fuel industry attacks on climate accountability litigation and campaigning make this "a perilous moment for democratic norms and institutions,” as I told @danad1012.bsky.social.

Disasters like Odette are becoming more frequent & intense due to the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis. Shell has known for decades that fossil fuels stood to cause dangerous climate change, but chose to deceive the public, spread disinformation, and delay climate action to protect its profits.

67 people from the Philippines have announced legal action against fossil fuel giant #Shell. The claimants suffered harm from Typhoon Odette in 2021, including serious injuries, deaths of loved ones, or losing their homes. UCS stands w/ the claimants as they demand compensation. #MakePollutersPay

🎉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

Today's rally @ the MA State House in support of the climate superfund bill (H.1014/S.588) featured powerful art showing what's at stake in the movement for #ClimateJustice. We called on our legislators to #MakePollutersPay for their share of adaptation costs in the climate crisis they helped cause.

US banking regulators just withdrew guidance from 2 years ago on how big banks should manage climate risks. The science hasn’t changed & the risks have only grown. The only difference is who’s in the White House. So much for the Fed’s vaunted “independence” from politics.

New study shows fossil fuel industry only contributes to 1.42% of global renewable energy. The largest 250 oil & gas companies may only produce 0.1% of their primary energy from renewable sources. Their actual investment in clean energy is negligible compared to their massive fossil fuel extraction.

🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD. Its playbook? - Lobbying - Funding think tanks - Media sponsorships ⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it. www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/

Who wrote the Trump administration's sham climate report? Learn more in my latest blog about the record of #climatedisinformation, scientific contrarianism and ties to the #fossilfuel industry of the so-called “Climate Working Group” report authors. #climatedeception blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

TOMORROW: Last chance to sign up for our #ClimateWeekNYC webinar on holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Featuring scientists, community leaders & legal experts from @ucs.org, @climateintegrity.org, Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub & Lekeh Development Foundation. #MakePollutersPay

Ironically, litigation intended to intimidate the finance sector out of climate-conscious investing may end up "outlining the coal companies’ decades-long efforts to obstruct the energy transition," writes UCS's Pallavi Phartiyal. Read the blog, originally published in @thehill.com.

My @ucs.org colleague @carlonimbus.bsky.social unpacks the #fossilfuel industry disinformation tactics underpinning the Trump administration's destructive proposal to rescind a cornerstone of US #climate policy blog.ucs.org/carlos-marti...

SLAPPs are how those in power try to shut down protest + dissent: through lawsuits meant to drain resources + scare communities into silence. This is an especially dangerous tactic at times like these when resistance is crucial. Watch + share 👇 from #ProtectTheProtest coalition member EarthRights.

Today, the EPA released a proposal that would gut the 2009 Endangerment Finding. “These actions by Lee Zeldin are anti-science and backed by the fossil fuel industry, said Chitra Kumar, Managing Director, UCS Climate & Energy campaign.

Great new blog by my @ucs.org colleague Laura Peterson calculating handouts to the oil and gas industry in the reckless and inhumane federal budget bill - blog.ucs.org/laura-peters...

📢 On July 23, the International Court of Justice will issue its advisory opinion on the responsibilities of states to address climate change and their obligations under international law, including those related to human rights. #ClimateICJAO #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

From my op-ed @thehill.com: Big Oil “companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing…Our elected representatives must stand strong against liability waivers and preserve the rights of states and communities to make polluters pay.” #ClimateAccountability #DecadesofDeceit thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Congrats to Lekeh Development Foundation on the third annual Niger Delta Climate Change Conference! UCS was proud to support this important gathering of leaders and community members to address the convergence of climate change, environmental degradation & social justice in the Niger Delta region.

Delta Merner, lead scientist at the Science Hub for Climate Litigation @ucs.org, said, "This opinion should be a clarion call for transnational fossil fuel companies that have deceived the public for decades about the risks of their products. The era of accountability is here." #AOLetsGO

In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵

The Senate Reconciliation Bill text is jaw-droppingly bad. A last-minute excise tax on wind and solar projects would further crush the industry & removing penalties against automakers for violating vehicle efficiency standards is a huge give-away to Big Oil, costing drivers $23B more at the pump!

“The fossil fuel playbook has undermined the protection of all human rights that are negatively impacted by climate change for over six decades” -- report of Elise Morgera, UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making. It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios. 👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...

Dr. Delta Merner @ucs.org explains how a German court dismissed a lawsuit by Peruvian farmer & mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya, but affirmed that major contributors to global warming can, in principle, face liability under civil law for contributions to climate change blog.ucs.org/delta-merner...

Delta Merner @ucs.org on this critical climate accountability precedent: The court "recognized that companies may be held legally responsible for climate damages tied to their emissions. The ruling confirmed that climate science can provide a basis for legal liability..." www.ucs.org/about/news/r...

As climate damages mount, dozens of cities, counties & states are taking the fossil fuel industry to court in a wave of tobacco-style litigation A new report from @ucs.org examines the evidence behind these lawsuits, as Big Oil fights to evade accountability www.oneearthnow.org/p/big-oil-de...

New blog from my @ucsclimate.bsky.social colleague Kate Cell shows how the fossil fuel industry is using the American Energy Institute as a front in seeking a free pass for climate devastation blog.ucs.org/kate-cell/ho...

🎧 In the latest Damages episode from @drilledmedia.bsky.social, @kathymulvey.bsky.social breaks down the new @ucs.org report, "Decades of Deceit," uncovering how fossil fuel companies spent decades obstructing climate policy through misinformation. Listen here: buff.ly/5lfreSV

“This report puts together, in one place, a powerful body of evidence about what the fossil fuel corporations knew—and when—about the climate impacts of their products, and what they did in spite of what they knew,” said report author @kathymulvey.bsky.social.

I'm proud to be part of the team behind this comprehensive and important new report! #DecadesOfDeceit

“It’s important for the full facts of the case to be aired … so that those who were behind the operation can be brought into the light and potentially brought to justice,” says Kathy Mulvey, Union of Concerned Scientists @kathymulvey.bsky.social @desmog.com

The last 100 days have been an unprecedented assault American science. Our scientists. Our institutions. And the people around the world who rely on it. We must stand united and speak up. Our collective future depends on it. #ScienceMatters savesciencenow.org

The scientific case for climate liability is no longer a “what if”—it’s here. A new @nature.com paper lays out a powerful end-to-end attribution science framework linking emissions from fossil fuel companies to real-world economic damages from extreme heat.

Congress: no liability waiver for the #fossilfuel industry. Six reasons corporations like #ExxonMobil fear being held accountable for decades of #climate deception and the resulting harm to people and the planet blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

My @ucsusa.bsky.social colleague Laura Peterson exposes the Trump Administration's risky business: gutting #climate safeguards and jeopardizing our financial future to reward his #BigOil benefactors blog.ucs.org/laura-peters...

Just weeks after meeting w CEOs of oil & gas corporations at the White House, Trump signed a new EO targeting states' rights, including laws and lawsuits related to environmental justice, pollution standards, and fossil fuel industry-driven climate damages, among other giveaways to the corporations.

This executive order is a direct attack on states’ rights to protect their residents from the climate crisis. It’s a clear attempt to silence communities demanding justice and accountability from the polluting corporations that have lied to the public for decades. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...

Another negative action from a corporate-captured govt that seems hellbent on protecting polluters' profits instead of the health of people and our planet. Acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda announced the SEC won't defend a corporate climate disclosure rule adopted last year, ignoring investor demands.

Shot: In exchange for $1 billion in campaign cash, Trump promised big giveaways to Big Oil. Chaser: Fossil fuel CEOs head to the White House to cash in. Trump is selling out American families, our economy, and our future.

Many thanks to my @ucsusa.bsky.social colleague Kate Cell for a powerful blog expressing outrage over this meritless SLAPP lawsuit, in solidarity with @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @greenpeace.org and Indigenous water protectors blog.ucs.org/kate-cell/gr...

Now is a critical moment to denounce and resist climate disinformation, pollution and violations of Indigenous sovereignty by the fossil fuel industry and its cronies.

Delta Merner, from UCS's Science Hub for Climate Litigation, writes about how this attribution science study fits into the climate litigation landscape—including the ways this quantitative, peer-reviewed scientific evidence may inform litigation strategies against fossil fuel companies.