Center for Climate Integrity

They say that time spent fishing is time well spent. We’re pretty sure that billionaire Big Oil investor Paul Singer, who flew out his friend Justice Samuel Alito to go fishing in Alaska, would agree with that. 🙄

Big Oil corporations are terrified of juries seeing the evidence of their deception. They're "terrified of having to face their own record," explains @govjayinslee.bsky.social. Feelings aside, communities deserve to be heard — and juries deserve to hear them.

"Big Oil's decades of deception have kept us hooked on fossil fuels, and now the American people are paying for it through $1 trillion a year in climate damages," said @jayapal.house.gov. Our ability to hold Big Oil accountable must be protected.

Big Oil companies are pushing Congress to give them legal immunity. Why? “The only reason you’d want immunity is if you’ve done something wrong,” explains CCI’s President Richard Wiles.

Our ability to hold Big Oil companies accountable for breaking the law is under attack. Communities across the country are fighting back. ✊

Big Oil wants legal immunity. Congress must not give in. “Americans deserve not to be lied to by big corporations,” said @govjayinslee.bsky.social. “We should have no kings in the White House and no kings saying they’re above the law.”

Serious question: Why is the Trump administration fighting so hard to help Big Oil escape the courtroom?

Chicago is known for its wind. But now climate change is bringing more extreme heat, flooding, and massive fluctuations in Lake Michigan's water levels—changes that are overwhelming the city. These damages have already cost the city billions, and Chicago now wants Big Oil to help pay the bill.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has taken roughly $5 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry over the course of his career. Now he’s pushing a federal bill that would shield Big Oil companies from any laws or lawsuits seeking to hold them accountable for fueling the climate crisis. 🙄

When a climate disaster hits, who pays? 🤔 “In the same way that we look to hold oil companies responsible for oil spills or workplace accidents,” says @samlmontano.bsky.social, “I think the approach of looking to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for climate damages makes a lot of sense.”

Ridwell is one of a growing number of companies selling the promise of responsible plastic recycling. But programs like these create the misleading impression that all plastics can be recycled if we just try hard enough—which is exactly what Big Oil and the plastics industry want us to believe.

Our cities are burning. Our health is suffering. Our energy costs are rising. Big Oil's lies are costing us enormously. Incredibly, the industry "now has the hubris to go to Congress and try to get legal immunity,” says @govjayinslee.bsky.social. We can't let Big Oil escape accountability.

Big Oil companies have lied for DECADES about the "catastrophic" dangers of their fossil fuel products, and are now "afraid of being held to account for their own lies," says @govjayinslee.bsky.social. Big Oil must not be above the law.

Big Oil companies are lobbying Congress to put them above the law. @govjayinslee.bsky.social joined @waytooearly.bsky.social to sound the alarm on why the public’s ability to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its climate lies must be protected.

Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and other Big Soda companies launched the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign just as they were massively scaling up plastic production. Big Soda continues to avoid accountability for the plastic pollution crisis—but now with help from Big Oil, their plastic supplier. 🙄

➡️ Big Oil knew their products would cause climate chaos. As CCI's @mikemeno.bsky.social explains, the industry saw “the writing on the wall” decades ago and launched a “massive deception campaign to spread climate denial and disinformation” and stifle clean energy competition.

➡️ Big Oil isn’t just asking the high court to intervene on their behalf. The industry is also lobbying the Trump administration to shield them from any laws or lawsuits that would hold them accountable.

➡️ Big Oil companies are scared to face the evidence of their lies. The fossil fuel industry followed the same playbook Big Tobacco used decades earlier to deny the dangers of its products—and we all saw how juries responded to that.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Big Oil companies' arguments for why they shouldn't stand trial for their climate lies. First, the big question: ➡️ Is there any reason to think the justices won’t simply side with Big Oil? @janecoaston.bsky.social and @mikemeno.bsky.social discuss.

Big Soda and Big Oil want us hooked on plastic. Together, they're working in lockstep to stop "any cap on plastics production," and make sure that efforts to meaningfully address the plastic pollution crisis fail. @joshvoorhees.bsky.social of @fieldnotes.co and @davisallen.bsky.social explain.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear oil companies’ arguments that they shouldn’t have to stand trial in a climate accountability lawsuit. For years, the Supreme Court rejected Big Oil’s requests to review similar cases... so what’s changed? @emdashsanders.bsky.social explains.

Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute, has reported talking to members of Congress about draft legislation to stop state climate lawsuits. What a coincidence that Rep. Harriet Hageman happens to be drafting legislation to do exactly that. 🙄

Big Oil is lobbying Congress for total immunity from any laws or lawsuits that could hold the industry accountable for fueling the climate crisis and lying about it. We can’t let that happen.

Plastic costs U.S. taxpayers as much as $1.1 trillion per year, according to a new report from Duke University. The Big Oil companies that are making a fortune from producing plastic are counting on us not noticing that we’re being robbed.

“Someone has to pay — and it will be us, if Big Oil gets immunity,” said Shemona Moreno of @350seattle.bsky.social. Big Oil knowingly fueling the climate crisis, and communities are paying the price. Congress must protect our right to hold polluting corporations accountable.

Home insurance rates are up, and Big Oil should pay. If the people of Hawai’i are left to bear the costs of climate disasters, "then we should allow the attorney general’s office to go and seek reimbursement from the companies that [are causing] these disasters,” said Senator Jarrett Keohokalole.

Big Oil just said the quiet part out loud. The American Petroleum Institute, the nation’s largest oil and gas trade association, said this week that one of its top 2026 priorities is to stop “state climate lawsuits.”

"The United States is not dependent on fossil fuels at all, but U.S. oil companies are. We don’t have to have that same agenda.” Investigative journalist @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social unpacks the relationship between Venezuela, oil, and the industry's climate lies with @emdashsanders.bsky.social.

Trump is meeting with Big Oil executives today to discuss next steps in Venezuela. Investigative journalist @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social and @emdashsanders.bsky.social discuss whether we should believe Big Oil’s public statements for @levernews.com and ExxonKnews.

Big Oil is “trying to get Congress to take away the ability of Americans to have access to juries,” explains former Washington Governor @govjayinslee.bsky.social. The public deserves the right to take corporations to court for breaking the law. No immunity for Big Oil!

We all deserve to know when we’re being lied to. CCI’s Charlotte Marcil explains how BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell sold false climate promises for 25 years — and how to identify Big Oil's most common lies, one by one.

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."

➡️Justice Samuel Alito owns thousands in stock in ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66. ➡️Justice Amy Coney Barrett's father worked as one of Shell's top attorneys for decades. So… just how deep are the ties between Big Oil and our U.S. Supreme Court justices? 🤔

In 1998, API — Big Oil's largest trade association — declared that “victory will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science.” CCI's Kert Davies explains why the "Victory Memo" is now considered one of the ugliest documents in climate denial history.

For the first time ever, an oil company has been forced by a court of law to remove claims that it’s leading the energy transition and aiming for net zero emissions. @emdashsanders.bsky.social explains why fossil fuel companies across the world should be paying attention. 👀

Just because a plastic cup claims to be made of "recycled" content doesn’t mean that it is. 🤯 CCI’s Jordan McNamara explains how Big Oil is using accounting tricks to make it look like recycling is addressing our plastic pollution crisis — when in reality, it’s not.

Home insurance is in crisis, and Big Oil's lies are to blame. "We’re never going to bend the curve of ever-rising insurance costs without addressing the core driver of higher prices: the worsening climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly made a reality," explains CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.

Hail stones are expected get up to 75% BIGGER in the next few decades. 🤯 Worsening hail storms are already being observed in places like the Midwest, where home insurance premiums have skyrocketed in recent years. CCI's @kellysanks.bsky.social explains why Big Oil should help foot the bill.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws aim to hold plastic producers responsible for managing the waste they’ve created. But the success of EPR laws depends on, and reinforces, the idea that plastic is recyclable… when in reality, it's not. 😐

We're seeing warmer ocean waters and stronger, more rapidly intensifying hurricanes after Big Oil spent decades pushing denial, disinformation, and deception to delay climate action and protect fossil fuel profits. It's time for accountability.

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. 🙄

Even if you think Big Oil is innocent, Big Oil knows they’re not. @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social explains why the fossil fuel industry is determined to bury the evidence of their climate deception — and how communities are fighting back.

The U.S. government will now provide more than $34 billion a year to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies — but Chris Wright, the country’s top energy official, is claiming that those subsidies… don’t exist. @emdashsanders.bsky.social unpacks why that might be.

Big Oil is facing dozens of lawsuits over its decades-long climate deception. Rather than face a jury, Big Oil is now lobbying Congress for a legal shield. “We should not be putting the interests of a corporate entity over the interests of our citizens," says Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill.

@iylas.bsky.social pointed out why the insurance industry needs to break up with Big Oil.

NPR’s @michaelcopley1.bsky.social asked about growing calls for insurance companies to take steps to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages. “There’s a real price tag” to climate disasters and “someone needs to pay for that,” said Ben Franta of @smithschool.ox.ac.uk

Former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich talked about new evidence of Big Oil’s climate deception obtained last year through a joint House-Senate investigation.

“When you have an industry that has spent so much time lying about the problem, until the point where they can’t anymore ... they start lying about the solutions,” @iylas.bsky.social said of Big Oil and climate change.

Last year, Hurricane Helene tore through the southeastern U.S., causing up to 50% more rainfall in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas than we would have seen in a cooler world. CCI's @kellysanks.bsky.social unpacks why Big Oil must be held accountable for fueling more destructive hurricanes.

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.

Why are New Jersey residents paying for climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly fueled? "100-year floods happening every five to ten years...really cause havoc,” explains Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill. “It shouldn’t be up to the average citizen to pay for what they did."

Dozens of communities across the country believe that they have enough evidence to show that Big Oil broke the law. CCI’s Managing Attorney Corey Riday-White explains why we should all support their right to be heard. 📢

As climate change pushes summer heat into the school year, many schools are struggling to cope with overheated classrooms and inadequate cooling systems. Oil and gas executives turned up the heat in these classrooms — they need to pay their fair share to keep students safe.

Big Oil is setting up some complicated plays to escape accountability, but communities are playing offense. 🏀 CCI’s Managing Attorney Corey Riday-White breaks down where the lawsuits against Big Oil currently stand — and why the industry's defense is starting to fall apart.

Summer is awesome, and we won’t let Big Oil steal it from us.

We’re drowning in plastics, and Big Oil is to blame. CCI’s Richard Wiles sat down with @cnbc.com to explain how the plastics industry “sold” us the myth of plastic recycling to address growing calls for regulation — and ultimately, protect their social license to make even more plastic. 😭