UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns
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Climate & Accountability Campaigns at the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org. Your place for rigorous, independent, intersectional climate science. #EnvironmentalJustice always.
"Yet rather than scaling back fossil fuel production and accelerating the transition to renewable energy, the six largest fossil fuel corporations plan to increase oil and gas production."
'Making a Killing, Literally and Figuratively': Big Oil Profits Set to Double Amid Deadly Heat
"Yet rather than scaling back fossil fuel production and accelerating the transition to renewable energy, the six largest fossil fuel corporations plan to increase oil and gas production."
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The U.S. Supreme Court should allow Boulder's climate deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to keep moving toward trial, a wide range of elected officials, legal scholars, public interest groups, and others argued in amicus briefs filed with the court today.
States, Ranchers, Tribes, Congress Members, Scholars and More Back Boulder Climate Deception Case | Center for Climate Integrity
The U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Exxon and Suncor’s Arguments to Escape Trial in Colorado for Deceiving the Public About Climate Harms
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A catastrophic global wildfire season is underway, while fossil fuel companies announce record profits and push for legislative immunity. Hear more from @ucs.org Policy Director Rachel Cleetus on fires in a changed climate.
A World Ablaze: The Climate Future We Feared is Here - Union of Concerned Scientists
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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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@ucs.org senior scientist Dr. Carly Phillips said fights over who will pay for climate damages could have been avoided if the fossil fuel industry had been honest in decades past with the public and politicians about the dangers of burning fossil fuels.
Republicans Are Trying to Give Big Oil Immunity for Causing Climate Chaos
A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.
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"As extreme heat becomes more common, the challenge is not only whether households have access to cooling—but critically, whether they can afford to use it," writes UCS's Sital Sathia.
Extreme Heat, Extreme Costs: How Danger Season Exacerbates the Affordability Crisis - Union of Concerned Scientists
In recent weeks, millions of people across the United States have faced the harsh extremes of Danger Season. A prolonged heat wave pushed ‘feels-like’ temperatures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast, while roughly half of the country was under heat alerts or warnings. Grid operators took emergency steps to maintain reliability as electricity demand surged and severe holiday-weekend storms left hundreds of thousands of households without power.
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Today marks 1 year since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its landmark advisory opinion affirming that governments have legal obligations to address climate change under international law, including regulating private actors - like fossil fuel companies - within their jurisdictions.
International Court of Justice Ruling Clarifies Global Climate Obligations, Opens Door to Accountability
International Court of Justice Ruling Clarifies Global Climate Obligations, Opens Door to Accountability
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The record-shattering, deadly #heat dome followed 3 years of hottest global temps in recorded history thanks to fossil fueled-climate. Heat is deadliest climate impact in the U.S., particularly in cities' due to urban heat island effect. Too often, killer heat flies under the radar. bit.ly/4wcKCmJ
Fossil Fuels Are Heating America’s 250th Birthday – World Weather Attribution
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"El Niño and fossil fuel-driven climate change together make a terrible team (...)When you combine an El Niño event with the overall warming of Earth due to emissions from heat trapping fossil fuels, you get an exceptionally warm planet."
Unprecedented Earth: Record Super El Niño, Marine Heatwaves, and Heat Domes
There's a roughly 90% chance of this El Niño becoming the strongest in recorded history.
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Our new investigation exposes how the oil and gas industry knew about the climate harms of methane yet promoted natural gas as "clean" and a climate solution. "The fraud of clean natural gas has been essential to the industry’s success in the marketplace," the authors write. Learn more 👇
How Big Oil and Gas created the fraud of “clean” natural gas | Center for Climate Integrity
A new CCI investigation exposes how the oil and gas industry knew about the climate harms of methane yet promoted natural gas as a climate solution
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NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Union of Concerned Scientists@ucs.org · 2w agoFrom record marine heatwaves to a developing super El Niño, UCS climate experts Erika Spanger & @marc-alessi.bsky.social take a closer look at what's happening in our oceans and what it could mean for the months ahead. Tune in tomorrow: youtube.com/live/o4-WMpEpilg
🌡️ Extreme heat is sweeping North America, while smoke from Canadian #wildfires is reaching the Northeast just as fans travel to the region for the World Cup finals. We spoke with Dr. Marc Alessi from @ucs.org about what climate change means for soccer and other outdoor sports.
"[The Trump Administration] believes that climate change won't happen if you can't research it or observe it. 'If we spread enough disinformation, maybe that will change public opinion.' But that's just not the truth. Everyone in the United States sees what is happening." Dr. Marc Alessi on KALW:
The Authoritarian Playbook: Trump's assault on climate & green energy
As millions in the US experience record heat waves, the Trump administration is accelerating climate change by gutting clean energy projects and boosting fossil fuels.
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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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1/ Forecasting from NOAA’s critical HeatRisk tool tells us a scorching heat wave is engulfing the western U.S and the upper Midwest. A heat dome has led to multiple new all-time record highs, and more fossil-fuel-driven heat is expected through the end of July.
Climate Prediction Center
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📣 @ucs.org's Dr. Rachel Cleetus joins Ryann Blackshere Vargas and Dr. John Burroughs from the Lawyer’s Committee on Nuclear Policy on the #BackFromtheBrink #podcast. They explore what #climate diplomacy and #nuclear abolition can learn from each other. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Are you feeling the heat? 🥵🌡️ Summer's always been hot, but the summer that was is no more. But there are solutions. Read on... 🧵
Join UCS and partners for a free, monthly virtual screening series of "Vs. Goliath"—a powerful, award-winning new documentary series following everyday people across the United States as they stand up to the fossil fuel industry & fight for the future of their communities.
Record high temperatures hit communities across the US as a fatal heat wave swept across the country. So, President Trump's Department of Energy deleted thousands of resources related on energy conservation. The move isn't just climate denialism: it's dangerous.
White House deletes thousands of webpages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
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"Sixty current and former professional players signed an open letter this spring demanding FIFA overhaul its heat-stress framework... Tucked into that same letter is a demand that FIFA drop its fossil fuel sponsors." #FossilFreeFootball #FIFAWorldCup
The World Cup is Cooked
Players and fans are sweating through record heat while sponsors cash the checks.
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A fossil fuel firm that few people have heard of is riding the Trump administration’s permissive oversight and its war in Iran to bumper profits.
What Happened When an LNG Giant Came to Town - Inside Climate News
Venture Global has left a trail of frustrated customers and former employees. But people in tiny Cameron, Louisiana, say the gas exporter has upended their lives.
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Frustrated by how much plastic comes home from the supermarket? 🛒🥫 Join this global citizen science effort to expose supermarkets’ role in plastic pollution 🧾🕵️♀️ Sign up for a #SupermarketAudit near you: 🔗 breakfreefromplastic.org/supermarket-audit/ #BreakFreeFromPlastic
“States, tribes, and municipalities have the right to utilize state laws to hold wrongdoers accountable in many industries,” wrote 21 state attorneys general and local officials in a letter Monday to the top Democrats of several House committees. #NoImmunityForBigOil
E&E News: State and city attorneys urge Congress to not block climate lawsuits
Republican legislation would grant the oil and gas industry immunity from litigation that seeks compensation for the costs of climate change.
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It's hot, it's humid, it's going to be a tough week. New from @marc-alessi.bsky.social of @ucs.org explains why this happens in our warming world. Check it out! #ActOnClimate @weathersurvivors.bsky.social @climatecentral.org www.instagram.com/reels/DaOFGr...
Union of Concerned Scientists on Instagram: "🥵One in four people in the US are facing heat risks this holiday weekend. Climate Scientist Dr. Marc Alessi breaks down the science behind the heat dome, a...
7 likes, 0 comments - unionofconcernedscientists on June 30, 2026: "🥵One in four people in the US are facing heat risks this holiday weekend. Climate Scientist Dr. Marc Alessi breaks down the science ...
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Good news! A French court just ruled that TotalEnergies has climate obligations under the French Duty of Vigilance Law, ordering the company to create a plan within 6 months to reduce emissions from combustion of its oil & gas products. Press release from plaintiff @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social:
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Via @business-humanrights.org "As scorching temperatures beat down on #WorldCup soccer games across North America, climate activists – including former and current professional athletes – are calling for Fifa and other professional sporting organizations to cut ties with the oil and gas industry."
Global: Activists call for FIFA to cut ties with the oil and gas industry, especially with Saudi Aramco, the exclusive energy sponsor for this year’s tournament - Business and Human Rights Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre
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“[The lessons] seemed to attempt to derive legitimacy through acknowledgement of a set of issues, but then put forward those issues in such a slanted manner that one thinks one’s getting an objective perspective that is completely divorced from reality,” said Julie McNamara (@ucs.org).
The gas industry is sneaking into kids’ science classes
The Switch Energy Alliance markets its free classroom materials as “objective.” But they are backed by the fossil fuel industry, a HEATED investigation shows.
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How you can help: ⚽Join @fossilfreefootball.bsky.social ➕ @clientearth.bsky.social and other fans in demanding that FIFA stop accepting sponsorship money from #BigOil 🌍Tell your government to #BanFossilAds as part of comprehensive action to protect our climate and public health
Taking a Lesson from the Tobacco Ad Ban to Shut Down Fossil Fuel Greenwashing
What would it take to get Big Oil to stop its greenwashing campaigns? An international ban on Big Oil ads may be in the works from the United Nations.
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