Decades of Deceit – Climate Fraud

Union of Concerned Scientists: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages – “Dozens of states, counties, cities, and tribes across the United States and its territories are currently suing major fossil fuel companies for fraud, climate damages, or racketeering. This report assesses the wealth of documentary evidence behind these lawsuits, including recently released internal corporate documents. The evidence could hardly be clearer: For decades these companies possessed detailed and accurate knowledge about the dangers their products pose to the global climate and understood that climate action would threaten their business models. Yet they planned, funded, and continue to engage in a campaign to profit from the planet’s destruction by deceiving the public and blocking climate action. Ongoing investigations link a criminal hacking scheme targeting climate accountability advocates to a Washington, DC, lobbying firm and one of its clients—a major oil and gas corporation. At a time when the federal government is backsliding on climate action and pandering to fossil fuel interests, it is more important than ever to hold these corporations accountable for exacerbating the climate crisis.”