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This database exposes the client conflicts of more than 1,500 Big...

New group reveals that hundreds of schools, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and more are paying lobbyists who also represent the fossil fuel industry.

Big oil shill tells Fox viewers there is ‘no health risk’...

"He has been trying to recast air pollution—particularly PM2.5—as innocuous for decades, since he was working for Big Tobacco."

Oil company gave $200K to group accusing pipeline opponents of taking...

Alberta-based Indian Resource Council quietly received funding from CNRL, corporate documents reveal.

Analysis shows major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in...

"With $290 billion in profits, Big Oil made enough money in 2022 to end world hunger, pay off U.S. medical debt, and build 10 Disney Worlds, but instead used their record profits to shower $163 billion on shareholders."

Big Oil’s trade group allies outspent clean energy groups by a...

Most provide financial support to industry groups that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on political activities, often to thwart polices designed to slow climate change.

‘Investment already paying off’: McCarthy assigns Big Oil favorites to key...

"Instead of holding Big Oil executives accountable for price gouging consumers at the pump, the committee will be dominated by the interests of extractive industries."

House Committee report shows how Big Oil has been gaslighting us...

The fossil fuel industry has done everything it can to gaslight the public into believing that we are all equally responsible for causing the climate crisis and that the industry was working hard to solve it.

Pesticide industry ‘helped write’ disinformation playbook used by Big Oil and...

New analysis sheds light on key tactics Monsanto used to distort science and spin the narrative in defense of its herbicide product.

Judge deals latest blow to Big Oil in DC climate fraud...

Fossil fuel defendants in climate liability lawsuits keep losing in their bids to keep cases in federal courts.

Biden threatens windfall tax for fossil fuel ‘war profiteers’

Biden accused the companies of taking advantage of the war to fill their coffers and calling on them to instead work to reduce prices.

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