🚨Michigan's Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel just announced that her office is taking steps to sue Big Oil for climate deception.

'Big Oil caused these problems and they ought to pay the expenses related to these damages.'

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👏👏We applaud Attorney General Nessel for taking this step toward holding Big Oil accountable.

Big Oil has spread climate lies for decades.

'The people of Michigan deserve their day in court to make these companies pay for the massive harm they knowingly caused,' said CCI’s Richard Wiles.
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“These damages are just going to continue to accrue.. We have these companies causing damage, and it shouldn’t be on the taxpayers to foot the bill for all of these literally billions of extra dollars,” said Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

We must hold Big Oil accountable.
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🚨BREAKING: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Dana Nessel plans to sue fossil fuel companies for deceiving the public about their products' role in climate change.

Michigan would become the ninth state to take Big Oil to court.

It's time for accountability.
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The fossil fuel industry’s lies are catching up to them.

The lawyer who led the successful federal case against Big Tobacco told Congress that there is a “solid evidentiary basis” for a federal investigation of Big Oil.
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At a hearing about “Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change,” Rep. Jamie Raskin shared findings from a years-long congressional investigation into Big Oil’s climate lies and made clear that these polluters are not part of the solution.

WATCH: CCI's Davis Allen breaks down the 'Fraud of Plastic Recycling' on ABC13 Houston

[Big Oil and the plastics industry] know that ultimately all of that plastic waste will either end up in a landfill, incinerated, or in the environment.” msn.com/en-us/news/tec…

'How did we get to this critical point in human history? In large part because Exxon and other fossil fuel profiteers waged phenomenally successful, decades-long political campaigns of climate change denial and delay.' latimes.com/environment/ne…

'A new report finds that Big Oil is still a Big Liar.'

Watch Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Jamie Raskin speak with Katy Tur Reports about their recent findings.

Revealed: Despite warnings that gas-driven climate change could cause 'unprecedented famine,' BP led a marketing campaign to present gas as a climate solution.

The oil giant's goal was to 'protect the role of gas — and BP — in the energy transition.' desmog.com/2024/05/03/bp-…

A Shell plastics plant in Pennsylvania is spewing pollution and endangering residents’ public health.

“We all knew it was going to be bad, but it’s shockingly bad.” insideclimatenews.org/news/30042024/…

Wild new 'confidential' documents from BP.

It was warned in 2016 that gas-driven climate change could flood all the world's coastal cities and cause 'unprecedented famine.'

Yet BP chose to market gas as a climate solution.

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Our expansive Oversight Committee Democrats and Senate Budget Committee investigation revealed that Big Oil has been pushing climate disinformation since the 1960s. They knew their emissions fueled climate change, but they obscured the science in a shocking betrayal of our people.

Big Oil companies have shifted from climate denial to duplicity.

From promoting false solutions to blaming consumers, our latest guide breaks down five ways that the fossil fuel industry is still lying — and how to identify and call them out. climateintegrity.org/big-oil-lies-r…

The climate crisis has been fueled by Big Oil’s decades-long campaign of denial, disinformation, and doublespeak.

New documents expose the fossil fuel industry’s evolving strategies to prevent action on climate change.

Yesterday’s Senate Budget Committee hearing exposed Big Oil’s shift from climate denial to duplicity.

“Big Oil is not addressing the climate crisis, but profiting from it,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin.
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New Oversight Committee Democrats report confirms what we’ve known all along: Big Oil has lied to Americans about how their actions and products worsen the climate crisis.

Sent a letter to U.S. Department of Justice last summer calling on them to investigate this deception. More: lieu.house.gov/media-center/p…

“This is the first evidence I’ve seen of them acknowledging internally, at the highest levels, that they know this—natural gas is a climate disaster—and yet, they still promote it.”

CCI's Richard Wiles in grist on the new evidence of Big Oil's duplicity.
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I’m sick and tired of top executives promising to cut emissions in New Mexico and nothing happens. People are getting sick. It’s unacceptable and must change.