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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

25 January 2024

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  • A collage of a propane tank, factory smoke, a sitting person, microphones

    ‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewable

    Lobbying group spent nearly $30m on ads touting ‘clean energy’ potential of propane – and downplaying full climate impacts

22 January 2024

  • Silhouette of a person walking in front of tall grass on fire.

    Why 2024 will be a crucial year for climate litigation

    Advocates predict activists and local governments will look to the courts to bring about accountability for climate damage

14 January 2024

  • A thin, older white man in a suit and tie wearing glasses looks off to his right.

    PR giant Edelman worked with Koch network, despite climate pledges

    Move by world’s largest public relations company, uncovered by tax records, alarms climate advocates

10 January 2024

  • an oil rig with fire coming out the top photographed at night

    US oil lobby launches eight-figure ad blitz amid record fossil fuel extraction

    Campaign pushes idea oil is ‘vital’ to global security and capitalizes on war in Gaza to escalate production, climate advocates say

8 January 2024

  • Exxon sign

    US supreme court rejects big oil’s bid to move Minnesota climate trial

    Court denies plea to move venue of 2020 lawsuit filed by state, putting Minnesota one step closer to putting industry on trial

3 January 2024

  • Smoke rises from chimneys toward a bright blue sky

    Big oil ‘fully owned the villain role’ in 2023, the hottest year ever recorded

    Fossil fuel firms ‘took the mask off’ as they reneged on climate pledges and doubled down on expansion of planet-heating energy

31 December 2023

  • A student speaks into a microphone.

    ‘Hope is a discipline’: youth climate case plaintiff on why he’s suing the US government

    Nathan Baring of Alaska is part of a group of young activists suing the US, which they say ‘willfully ignored’ dangers of fossil fuels

21 December 2023

  • Collage of hose builders, the dollar bill and gas utility infrastructure

    Revealed: US utility firms offer builders cash and trips to fit new homes with gas appliances

    Utilities give rewards to house builders to install and promote gas appliances in homes – and enlist celebrity chefs to extoll the fossil fuel

19 December 2023

  • A fireball erupting across I-77 from gas line explosion in West Virginia on 11 December 2012.

    Gas pipeline expansion could fuel Pacific north-west climate emergencies

    Washington, Oregon and California have stringent laws to combat fossil fuel, but the approval of GTN Xpress could upend that

12 December 2023

  • A Chevron gas station sign against a cloudy sky.

    Dozens of US lobbyists represent both climate-focused charities and fossil fuels – report

    Watchdog finds 86 foundations, including New Venture Fund and Pew Charitable Trusts, that share firms with fossil fuel companies

11 December 2023

  • A woman surrounded by a group of children uses a laptop computer.

    California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis

    Genesis B v EPA is the latest in a series of youth-led constitutional climate cases brought by non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust

7 December 2023

  • illustrated checkerboard with images of Pitbull, polluting factories, and Charles Kock

    Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family

    Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others

6 December 2023

  • Pharmacy has plastic bags for distribution to customers in advance of ban, in Manhattan borough of New York City<br>A pharmacy has plastic bags for distribution to customers in advance of a plastic bag ban, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

    US plastic bag recycling directory site taken down after ‘abysmal failure’

    Investigation by ABC News found some materials were ending up in landfills, incinerators and other waste facilities

26 November 2023

  • Inside Look At Heat Pump Production At Bosch Home Comfort Group<br>ESCHENBURG, GERMANY - APRIL 27: Ready assembled heat pumps for residential buildings at a Bosch Home Comfort Group factory on April 27, 2023 in Eschenburg, Germany. The German government, as a major part of its climate policy, is pushing homeowners to invest in heat pumps to replace fossil fuel heating systems such as those based on heating oil and natural gas. New legislation will require new residential heating systems to be based at least 65% on renewable energy systems. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

    Electric heat costs way less than reports say, new data suggests

    Electrification nonprofit says annual federal report on winter-fuels costs is misleading and leaves out critical nuance

17 November 2023

  • A pumpjacks in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas. Texas has seen some of the most extreme effects of the worsening climate crisis in recent years.

    Texas: Republican-controlled school board votes against climate textbooks

    Republican board member condemns photos in some textbooks for being unfairly critical of oil and gas industry

31 October 2023

  • view of river with a bridge at sunset

    Pittsburgh in ‘extreme embrace’ with fossil fuel lobbyists, research finds

    Several of the city’s governmental, environmental and cultural institutions share lobbyists with fossil fuel companies

30 October 2023

  • Students and alumni at Tufts University protest in April 2015.

    US students file complaints against six universities over fossil fuel investments

    Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are violating commitments to the public interest

26 October 2023

  • Charles Koch at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on 29 June 2019.

    ‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network

    Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government

20 October 2023

  • Screengrab of Gas Leaks horror themed advocacy video

    Halloween-themed climate campaign aims to show horrors of methane gas

    Gas Leaks advocacy group’s ad resembling horror movie trailer is latest in broader push to counter fossil fuel industry messaging

13 October 2023

  • FILE - A 2021 Toyota Prius that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell sits on display at the Denver auto show on Sept. 17, 2021, at Elitch's Gardens in downtown Denver. The White House has selected the Philadelphia area and West Virginia for two regional hubs to produce and deliver hydrogen fuel, an important part of the Biden administration's clean energy plan, according to a person familiar with the plan. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

    Biden administration to award $7bn in grants to create US ‘hydrogen hubs’

    Energy department says program will achieve climate goals, but climate advocates are skeptical it will reduce emissions
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