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Big oil uncovered

Reporting on the efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry, and its enablers, accountable for the climate crisis, and investigating attempts to disrupt the transition to clean power. Read earlier reporting in the Climate crimes series

1 October 2024

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  • Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia, on 30 September.

    Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia

    Ex-president refers to climate crisis as ‘one of the great scams’ and plans to attend two fundraisers in oil-rich Texas

29 September 2024

  • a man looks to the right next to a coal-fired power plant

    Leonard Leo-linked group attacking efforts to educate judges on climate

    Rightwing US thinktank claimed in report that non-profit holding trainings is ‘corruptly influencing the courts’

23 September 2024

  • a man in a black shirt stares at camera

    ‘Pessimism is a luxury we can’t afford’: Kumi Naidoo on fighting fossil fuels with art and culture

  • A car drives past a refinery with the sign ExxonMobil

    California sues ExxonMobil over alleged role in plastic pollution crisis

19 September 2024

  • First day of semester at Columbia University, as campuses brace for return of pro-Palestinian protests<br>People walk through Columbia University campus on the first day of the new semester in New York City, U.S., September 3, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray

    Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds

    Student-led analyses raise concerns of conflict of interest at six universities, including Princeton, Columbia and Cornell

12 September 2024

  • Oil refinery and petrochemical plant

    Big oil faces a rising number of climate-focused lawsuits, report finds

    Communities, states and advocacy groups push to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for role in climate crisis

9 September 2024

  • Bound plastic bottles.

    Most US voters say plastics industry should be held responsible for recycling claims – report

    Even a majority of Republicans support efforts to hold manufacturers accountable for allegedly deceptive claims

5 September 2024

  • a side-by-side image showing an oil refinery and a university building

    University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

    Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms

2 August 2024

  • workers in white hazmat suits and reflective vests clean up a beach

    Harris is ‘perfect person’ to prosecute big oil, climate advocates say

    Environmentalists want DoJ to hold fossil fuel firms accountable and for presumptive nominee to lead charge

18 July 2024

  • A Guardian collage of images from industry 1970s industry periodical Marathon World published by a corporate predecessor of Marathon Petroleum

    US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation

    Marathon Petroleum predecessor warned of potential for ‘social and economic calamities’ in decades-old publication

28 June 2024

  • Two men in hard hats, jumpsuits and heavy boots work on dark purple painted pipes above, with pink floppy tubes and hard blue tubes.

    Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

    A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn

26 June 2024

  • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

    Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

  • A very thin woman raises a plastic bottle to her lips, in full sun with a blue tarp behind her.

    Lawyers could charge big oil with homicide after 2023 Arizona heatwave

21 June 2024

  • A side-by-side image of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott

    Elected officials in sweltering US states prioritizing fossil fuel cash over people

    Governors of Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Nevada have all received money from oil and gas firms as residents suffer

20 June 2024

  • People hold hands during a community paddle out for those affected by the Maui fires in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 19 August 2023.

    Youth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in Hawaii

    State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement

17 June 2024

  • Pedestrians walk on the campus at Stanford University in California.

    Stanford disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties

    University hires Brunswick Group amid anger from campus organizers at its sustainability school’s funding

10 June 2024

  • an oil refinery

    Supreme court ruling delays climate litigation big oil has sought to thwart

    Court seeks Biden administration’s view as fossil fuel industry fights to avoid trial in lawsuits

9 June 2024

  • Oil pumps work in an oil field in California

    Far-right fossil fuel company allies pressure US supreme court to shield firms in unprecedented campaign

    Groups linked to billionaire Leonard Leo, who seems to have ties to Chevron, are pressing the court to intervene in lawsuits that could cost billions

3 June 2024

  • Oil facility beneath red sky at dusk

    Republican governors gather to attack Biden’s climate agenda

    Governors say president has ‘done nothing but attack American energy’ and urge end to US fossil-fuel rules and regulations

31 May 2024

  • A flooded street in a Vermont town with a Highway 14 sign sticking out of the water.

    ‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages

    Climate Superfund Act compels oil companies to pay potentially billions of dollars for climate impacts caused by their emissions
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