@kathymulvey.bsky.social, accountability campaign director @ucs.org: “Petitioning to have this case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a last-ditch effort to block evidence of the fossil fuel industry’s decades of deceit from being heard in courtrooms across the country."

Boulder, Colorado, and Big Oil Prepare for High-Stakes Clash in Supreme Court - Inside Climate News

The case, which the justices will hear in early October, could be consequential for more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits pending against the fossil fuel industry.

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1/7) Climate litigation is growing fast with nearly 3,000 cases across 60 countries Scientific evidence is already playing a key role. But what research do litigators actually need right now? Read our new report out today: Research Priorities for Climate Litigation 2026 🧵

Today @ucs.org, along with colleagues @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @rbrulle.bsky.social, @geoffreysupran.bsky.social, @lewan.uk, filed an amicus brief with #SCOTUS in support of a climate deception lawsuit against #BigOil brought by the city and county of Boulder, CO.

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception

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A decade ago, over 100 climate advocates working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change, including staff at UCS, were targets of a hacking operation. Now, a court case could uncover who was behind the illegal operation and bring the culprits to justice.🔎💻

US trial could reveal who paid hackers to target Exxon climate critics: ‘on the edge of our seats’

Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers

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Fossil fuel interests are working to control how judges see the climate crisis—and it's not subtle. Their goal? Replace independent expertise with industry voices like President Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former fracking executive.

The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis

US energy secretary Chris Wright featured in seminars to judges when he was a fracking executive

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Disturbingly, bank financing for fossil fuel expansion *increased* by 27% in 2025, at a time when we desperately need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Any plausible scenario to meet global climate goals demands dramatic reductions in fossil fuel use, in this decade and beyond.

The UCS Position on a Fossil Fuel Phaseout

UCS supports a fast and fair phaseout of fossil fuels around the world.

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BREAKING! The 17th #BankingOnClimateChaos report reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $8.7 TRILLION over the last decade. Instead of investing in a livable future, big banks are driving pollution & climate devastation. Learn more: bankingonclimatechaos.org

Rep Hageman & Sen Cruz introduced legislation to grant legal immunity to the fossil fuel industry. @kathymulvey.bsky.social says this championing "of the world’s largest polluters shows how far certain elected officials will go to undermine democratic policymaking."

Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill to Grant Big Oil Sweeping Legal Immunity

Rep. Hageman Bill Puts Polluters Above the Law, Seeks Sweeping Legal Immunity for Fossil Fuel Industry Climate Accountability Lawsuits

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Today Rep. Hageman introduced a bill seeking to grant sweeping immunity to the fossil fuel industry against legal and financial accountability for climate change damages. This disastrous bill "would twist the knife of the climate crisis that is already directly harming people across the country."

Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill to Grant Big Oil Sweeping Legal Immunity

Rep. Hageman Bill Puts Polluters Above the Law, Seeks Sweeping Legal Immunity for Fossil Fuel Industry Climate Accountability Lawsuits

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Big Oil companies are going all-out to avoid taking responsibility for the harm caused to communities and for driving the climate crisis. They are using an age-old strategy: delay, distort, and deny. But we won’t let them off the hook.

The Endangerment Finding has been in place for over 15 years, in that time prompting significant reductions in heat-trapping emissions and saving countless lives by cutting the fossil fuel pollution that triggers asthma attacks and heart disease.

Trump Administration Takes Chainsaw to Science-Based Endangerment Finding Endangering Us All

EPA today announced its final rule to undo the agency’s 2009 endangerment finding and repeal standards that reduce the dependence of cars and trucks on fossil fuels. Statement by UCS President Dr. Gre...

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Consensus about the causes & threats of climate change is nearly universal in the scientific community after decades of research. Judges should have access to this information. We can't keep letting the deep-pocketed, destructive, deceptive fossil fuel industry override the public interest.

Big Oil Has Been Lying to Us for Decades: Don’t Let It off the Hook

As people and communities seek accountability, the industry is pleading for an escape hatch.

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More disturbing news today about the removal of scientific evidence from decision-making processes in our federal government. Censoring educational materials about the climate crisis will not make it go away - it will just make our public institutions less equipped to deal with it.

Climate science removed from judicial manual after GOP complaints

Republican attorneys general argued the new chapter would put judges “firmly on one side” of climate lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry.

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A big win today: a federal court found that the Trump administration’s sham report attacking climate science was created in secret by a hand-picked set of climate policy opponents, violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Read our statement here:

Court Rules Trump Administration’s Secret “Climate Working Group” Violated Federal Law

Court declared today that the Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed the “Climate Working Group” and tasked it with writing a dangerously slanted report used as the basis fo...

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Today Michigan became the 11th state to sue the fossil fuel industry for climate deception, filing an antitrust suit in federal court against #BigOil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell, and trade association American Petroleum Institute #BigOilLies #ClimateAccountability

Michigan Sues Big Oil ‘Cartel’ for Conspiring to Block Clean Energy | Center for Climate Integrity

Michigan Becomes the 11th State to Take Oil Majors to Court for Climate Deception, Arguing They Violated Antitrust Laws to Limit Energy Options and Drive Up Costs

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Join UCS & allies for next week's National #MakePollutersPay Week of Action! We'll rally to support measures like climate superfunds and climate liability laws that hold big polluters accountable for damages to our climate and our communities. Learn more in this video from @polluterspay.bsky.social

Make Polluters Pay National Week of Action

YouTube video by Make Polluters Pay

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Attribution science studies use the Carbon Majors data to link corporate emissions to real-world climate impacts that are harming ppl around the globe. One recent study found that emissions from the 178 Carbon Majors entities made 213 heatwaves reported between 2000-2023 more likely & more intense.

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

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This year’s update of the Carbon Majors database, which tracks historical production data for 178 of the world's largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers, is now available via @influencemap.bsky.social!

Carbon Majors: 2024 Data Update

A new briefing analyzing the latest emissions data from the Carbon Majors database.

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Check out my latest blog, coauthored with my @ucs.org colleague Laura Peterson, on US imperialism and #BigOil in Venezuela. The Trump administration’s all-in position on oil is a losing bet, and this illegal imperial oil grab is yet another reason we must all rise up. blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...

President Trump’s Imperial and Illegal Grab for Venezuelan Oil Is a Losing Bet

President Trump’s addiction to fossil fuels will not make people in the United States safer or richer. In fact, it will do the opposite by dragging us into a 19th-century-style imperial adventure that...

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“President Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the bedrock global treaty to tackle climate change is a new low and yet another a sign that this authoritarian, anti-science administration is determined to sacrifice people’s well-being and destabilize global cooperation." Read UCS Statement:

Trump Sinks to New Low by Announcing US Withdrawal from 66 International Organizations, Including UNFCCC and IPCC

President Trump announced today that he is removing the United States from the UNFCCC and IPCC, as well as 64 other entities or U.N. organizations. Statements by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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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.

Bad COP to Good COP: Blocking Fossil-Fueled Disinformation in Belém and Beyond

How do we prevent industry obstruction of science-based policy, and what would a climate summit look like if fossil fuel interests were finally shut out?

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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

Blocking fossil fuel disinformation in Belém and beyond

Fossil fuel companies should be barred from COP climate talks, where they attempt to derail discussions, and their disinformation must be tackled

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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...

WTH, XOM? ExxonMobil Again Sues to Dodge Accountability

Large fossil fuel and cement companies are responsible for the vast majority of the emissions that science shows are driving changes in the earth’s climate.

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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...

Imagining a COP Free from Fossil Fuel Industry Influence

COP30 will be a pivotal moment in global efforts to limit the worst impacts of climate change and advance a just transition centering workers, communities, and Indigenous Peoples.

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

WTH, XOM? ExxonMobil Again Sues to Dodge Accountability

Large fossil fuel and cement companies are responsible for the vast majority of the emissions that science shows are driving changes in the earth’s climate.

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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.

Z Energy apologises for 2022 ad campaign after legal action

Consumer and two environmental groups took legal action claiming the campaign was misleading and greenwashing.

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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.

Dana Drugmand@danad1012.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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...

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.

Decades of Deceit

Why the case against the major fossil fuel companies for fraud and climate damages is so strong.

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