The stuff in Project 2025 on climate and fossil fuels is even worse than you would imagine. As Michael Mann said, this would be “game over for climate progress.” If you care about a livable future, it’s worth understanding what’s in this radical right blueprint. Buckle up.
Never forget that we had all the scientific evidence we needed to act on global warming over 40 years ago, but the fossil fuel industry spent millions to spread disinformation and block climate action.
Global warming isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.
A reminder that these heat waves aren’t tragedies, they’re crimes.
The fossil fuel industry knew decades ago that this is what their pollution was causing, so they spent billions to lie to the public and block climate action.
WOW! The young people suing Montana over the right to a livable climate just won their case!!!!!
This is absolutely HUGE and will open up the floodgates for more climate lawsuits.
The law has become a powerful tool in our fight against fossil fuels.
This is a *HUGE* freaking deal: Congress has obtained documents that show Big Oil companies actively lying about their climate commitments and coordinating to downplay their support for the Paris Agreement.
That's fraud.
A quick 🧵
It’s wildly dumb that we keep talking about the “cost” of climate action when:
1) most of those costs are actually investments
2) the cost of inaction is astronomically more
3) our civilization is at stake
The public needs to understand that this summer's brutal heatwave was Brought To You By Big Oil.
So we bought billboards in some of the hottest cities in America -- Phoenix, Fresno & Austin -- with exactly that message.
#MakePollutersPay
#BlameBigOil
If the media isn’t connecting this wildfire smoke back to the climate crisis and the burning of fossil fuels that’s causing it
they
aren’t
doing
their
job.
Kagan *does not hold back* in her dissent:
“Whatever else this Court may know about it, it doesn’t have a clue about how to address climate change. And let’s say the obvious: The stakes are high.”
Here’s an
@exxonmobil
chart from 1982 where they accurately predicted that in the year 2019 we’d be at around 415ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere.
They then went on to lie to the public and block action for decades to protect their profits.
#ExxonKnew
In honor of the Oil CEOs who are going to the White House to beg Trump for corporate bailouts, here's a running list of terrible things the fossil fuel industry has been doing during the
#COVID19Pandemic
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For the historical record: during the brutal summer of 2023, a coal baron Senator bragged about permitting a 300-mile fracked gas pipeline with the emissions equivalent of 37 coal fired plants and 27 million cars.
WATCH: Construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline will now resume, creating 4,500 jobs by the end of August. This is a great day for American energy security and even a greater day for the state of West Virginia.
Hundreds gathering outside the White House on Indigenous People’s Day to demand President Biden declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects that threaten communities and the climate.
#PeopleVsFossilFuels
BREAKING: The PR firm hired by Egypt for COP27 is none other than Hill+Knowlton, who worked with Big Tobacco and currently runs the “Oil & Gas Climate Initiative,” an industry front group.
This is as dirty as it gets.
This always drives me nuts. Climate activists, for instance, will regularly have days of action with thousands of people at hundreds of events in all 50 states and the media mostly ignores it. Then a couple right wingers get together and it’s like the revolution.
Prayers for St. John the Baptist Parish
@ccostjohn
and all surrounding communities.
RP
@wwltv
Fire at Marathon Petroleum in St. John the Baptist Parish
This is not some natural disaster.
It’s the direct result of a decades long campaign the fossil fuel industry has waged against climate action.
Time to
#MakePollutersPay
.
ABC, CBS and NBC have done 50 segments on Hurricane Laura.
Not a single one has mentioned climate change.
Sign this petition calling on them to
#EndClimateSilence
now:
I hear a lot of people saying we need to “work with Big Oil” to combat climate change.
That’s like saying we needed to “work with Big Tobacco” to combat smoking.
There’s another option: hold them accountable, make them pay, and use the money to fund solutions.
Yes! This HUGE billboard in Times Square is calling out Big Oil for lying about the climate crisis.
We’re building a movement to
#MakePollutersPay
.
Join us:
HELL YEAH! Activists pulled off these huge projections in NYC last night directly connecting Big Oil companies to the climate disasters they’re fueling.
It’s time to
#MakePollutersPay
.
The March to End Fossil Fuels is kicking off, led by a global Indigenous delegation — from the frontlines to the United Nations, we’re going to
#EndFossilFuels
.
Tomorrow, President Biden is giving a big speech on extreme heat and the climate crisis.
It's the perfect opportunity to declare a climate emergency and use the full power of the presidency to implement the IRA and drive forward clean energy.
Here's why --> 🧵
WOW! In his General Assembly speech, the UN Secretary General just *blasted* fossil fuel industry enablers -- calling out the PR and advertising industry for the first time!
“Our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It’s time for an intervention."
Here's an excerpt 🧵
This should be on every front page:
"Air pollution from U.S. oil and natural gas production causes roughly $77 billion in health impacts nationwide every year, while also contributing to thousands of early deaths and health flare-ups, a new study finds."
These climate disasters aren't tragedies, they're crimes.
The fossil fuel industry knew decades ago that this is what their pollution was causing, so they spent billions to lie to the public and block climate action.
Time to make polluters pay.
We haven’t found the smoking gun yet, but it sure as hell looks like ExxonMobil was involved in a massive hacking operation to silence their critics (including me).
The Wall Street Journal tells the wild story in this bombshell of a piece.
Big Oil companies are trying to dismiss a lawsuit from Maui that would hold them accountable for climate damages.
It’s time to make these polluters pay for the damage they’ve done.
Or now that I’ve read the decision…we can’t stop the asteroid because Congress didn’t already pass specific legislation telling the government to do so.
Connect the dots: bad air quality, caused by Canadian wildfires, intensified by global warming, caused by fossil fuels, produced by companies like ExxonMobil, who lied for decades about the impacts of their product.
An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth.
The world’s diplomats come together to address the emergency.
And they spend the whole time talking about how to create “market mechanisms” to try and avoid actually paying for asteroid defense.
That’s basically
#COP25
so far.
This extreme heatwave was brought to you by fossil fuels.
For decades, oil & gas companies knew their products caused climate change.
But they lied so they could keep profiting. It's time to make them pay. 🧵
No, I actually don’t want to see oil corporations that abuse human rights and destroy the environment turn into clean energy corporations that abuse human rights and destroy the environment.
I want to see them pay for the damage they’ve done and then cease to exist.
YES!! This is the most important climate decision of the new year. It sets a precedent for all future decisions on oil and gas: if they don’t pass the climate test, they can’t go forward.
The idea that Big Oil is prioritizing investments in renewables is perhaps their biggest lie — and one we’re going to hear over and over at this hearing.
Here’s what their capital expenditures looked like in 2019.
#SlipperySix
You know what Justin Pearson also fought against? An oil pipeline that would have run through his community — and the “permitting reforms” that would fast track more projects like it.
If national Dems are going to celebrate his leadership, they ought to listen to his message.
“We have to talk about the systemic issues that created sacrifice zones, created sacrificed people” -
@Justinjpearson
that’s right! Our movements are intersectional!
#nosacrificezones
A new academic study found that fossil fuel industry trade associations have spent $3.4 BILLION on lobbying and advertising to block climate action over the last 10 years.
This sort of spineless corporate pandering by the DNC is why Democrats keep losing. Over 900 candidates have signed the
#NoFossilFuelMoney
pledge but the party is still kissing the boots of Big Polluters. Grow a spine,
@TomPerez
.
I talked with the Guardian about our
@StopBigOil
Billboards:
“I think the most important thing that we can do right now is to try and connect the dots between the extreme weather that people are seeing and the fossil fuel industry that’s driving it.”
IT’S OFFICIAL: The White House just announced that Department of Energy is pausing all new LNG export terminals!!
This halts nearly 20 LNG terminals representing 675 coal fired power plants worth of emissions.
It’s a historic day in the fight against fossil fuels.
When a GOP Rep tries to blame China for global warming,
@GretaThunberg
just says, “I come from a small country, Sweden, and we hear the same argument. They blame the US. So just so you know, the same argument is being used against you.”
Mic drop.
Hot damn! Dolly Parton didn’t just write a song about climate change — she wrote an absolute scorcher that rages against the liars fueling this crisis. Can’t wait for this to show up at marches and protests!
Whoa —
@exxonmobil
is threatening legal action against any investors who cooperate with the NY AG’s investigation into what
#ExxonKnew
about the climate crisis.
Where there’s smoke…there’s a company that set the world on fire.
“We can’t get off fossil fuels overnight” is one of the stupider industry talking points.
I mean, duh. That’s why need to start right now — or better yet, 40 yrs ago when scientists started warning us about the climate crisis but you spent millions lobbying against solutions.
Just a reminder that the Wall Street Journal is still publishing climate denial drivel — the argument of this one being that since there weren’t satellites 125,000 years ago, we shouldn’t worry about warming today.
It’s illegal to lie to Congress, to a court, and even to your shareholders. It should also be illegal for Exxon and other giant corporations to lie to federal regulators. I've got a plan for that.
My colleague Liz just made a good point: why are we always described as "climate activists" but industry spokespeople aren't described as "oil activists" or "fossil fuel activists"?
Was feeling depressed reading about Antarctica, so I drank a massive cup of coffee and worked on our latest plots to take down Big Oil…feeling much better.
Highly recommend caffeine+activism as a treatment for climate anxiety.
I think one of the most exciting (and important) things in climate right now is the growing effort to hold Big Oil accountable and make polluters pay for the damage they’ve done to our climate. Thank you
@SenSanders
for your leadership!!
HUGE: NYU is divesting its $5 billion endowment from fossil fuels!!
This decision has been a long time coming and is thanks to a decade of tireless organizing on campus. Congratulations all the students who made this possible!
🚨 Sunrise NYU just won divestment at New York University! This is a huge win for climate justice!
Congratulations to every student organizer who made this happen.
#DivestNYU
#ClimateJustice
If you’re a news outlet committed to telling the truth about the climate crisis (which many say they are), you shouldn’t be running fossil fuel advertising.
Running those ads is a choice and it undermines your coverage. Time to look up and stop.
Exxon’s board is under fire.
Shell just lost a major case in the Netherlands.
Chevron is facing a shareholder revolt.
It’s a tough week to be a fossil fuel company — which means it’s a good week for the rest of us.
Let me get this straight — Big Oil is asking tax payers to pay for protecting their refineries from sea level rise that they caused by keeping us addicted to oil? Yeah…no.
Sigh. In today's speech on extreme heat and climate change, President Biden didn't announce a single new measure to combat the climate crisis, let alone declaring a climate emergency. He also didn't reference fossil fuels or Big Oil a single time.
HERE WE GO: We’ve got a giant billboard in Times Square all this week calling out Big Oil and pushing for more lawsuits like California’s that
#MakePollutersPay
!
Join the fight:
"Rex Tillerson...successfully sued to stop construction of a fracking-support water tower near his 83-acre ranch. Tillerson argued that the proposed project would be a noise nuisance [and] negatively impact his quality of life."
Oh, I’m sorry
@exxonmobil
, did we hurt your feelings? Maybe you’d have more friends if you weren’t destroying the future for all living things. Just a thought.
Exxon's lawyer, about the climate change/fraud case in NY state, highlighting the REAL victims as the planet burns:
"It’s a cruel joke, your honor, because the reputations of a lot of people have been hurt and disparaged by the bringing of the complaint.”
Seems to me it should be a bigger scandal that
@SenSchumer
’s second largest political donor is NextEra Energy, the company behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline that *randomly* popped up in the debt ceiling deal.