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Climate crimes

Investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public. Read new reporting in our Big oil uncovered series

16 March 2023

  • ‘Global temperature rise is systematically reducing the number of places where humans can thrive.’

    US banks are sacrificing poor communities to the climate crisis

    Ben Jealous and Bill McKibben
    It took decades to force banks to abandon racist redlining. We don’t have decades to avert catastrophic climate crisis

14 June 2022

  • Frank Press, left, with President Jimmy Carter. Press wrote a letter to Carter warning of CO2 emissions causing "catastrophic climate change".

    The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world

    Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

12 June 2022

  • FILES-US-ENVIRONMENT-WEATHER-CLIMATE<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 17, 2021 Signage warns of extreme heat danger at the salt flats of Badwater Basin inside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California. - A large swathe of the southwestern United States was on alert June 9, 2022 for a potentially deadly heatwave that could push temperatures as high as 47 degrees celsius (117 Fahrenheit) over the coming days. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    US temperatures hit record levels as south-west bakes in heatwave

    Phoenix reported 114F, Las Vegas soared to 109F and Denver hit 100F, while inland areas of California reached triple digits

8 June 2022

  • southern company ad

    Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads

    Southern Company spent $62.1m over the years to deny the impact of fossil fuel combustion on climate crisis

1 June 2022

  • Eric Dooh showing his hand covered with oil from a creek near Goi, Ogoniland, Nigeria.

    ‘We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil’: the villagers who stood up to big oil – and won

    The fossil fuel industry faces a reckoning in the Niger Delta after disasters made it one of the most polluted places on the planet

27 May 2022

  • Man in pink shirt, brunette woman, man in orange checkered shirt

    They once worked for big oil’s enablers. Now they refuse to be complicit

    Workers within industries that prop up fossil fuels said they could no longer ignore the climate crisis. So they quit

24 May 2022

  • Climate activists protested in October 2019 in New York City.

    Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules

    The ruling, and another crucial court decision this week, will force the company to face charges it lied about global heating

12 May 2022

  • The Guyanese environmentalist Arnette Arjoon alongside fishing boats docked at Liliendaal, Georgetown.

    ‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza

    Multibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners

11 May 2022

  • Plastic trash on Berawa Beach, Bali, Indonesia.

    Exxon doubles down on ‘advanced recycling’ claims that yield few results

    The petroleum company is under investigation for misleading the public while exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis

4 May 2022

  • Pro-industry groups in New Mexico are pushing out what some experts have called ‘sky is falling’ messaging.

    How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage

    Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse

28 April 2022

  • Gasoline prices at the pump have surged, reaching a US national average of $4.34 on 21 March.

    Why are gas prices so high? These obscure traders are partly to blame

    ‘Nobody with power is looking at what they’re doing,’ but they’re helping to drive searing gas prices despite increased oil production

25 April 2022

  • US-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-OIL<br>A sign displays the price of gas at an Exxon gas station in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2022. - US consumer prices saw their biggest annual increase in more than 40 years last month, rising 7.9 percent compared to February 2021 as inflation continues to batter the economy, the government said on March 10. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    US gas prices are over $4 a gallon. These oil CEOs took home over $20m

    Oil and gas CEOs received nearly $45m more in combined total compensation in 2021 compared to 2020 amid a steep rise in prices

21 April 2022

  • Aerial view of offshore jackup drilling rig during sunset

    ‘What we now know … they lied’: how big oil companies betrayed us all

    In a powerful new three-part docuseries, the oil industry is put on trial as the extent of climate change awareness is revealed

13 April 2022

  • Rikki+Held

    Fossil fuels v our future: young Montanans wage historic climate fight

    Sixteen young people are suing the state of Montana in what will be the first youth-led climate case to make it to trial

11 April 2022

  • ‘Autocrats are often directly the result of fossil fuel.

    Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both

    Democracies are making more progress than autocracies when it comes to climate action. But divestment campaigns can put pressure on the most recalcitrant of political leaders

5 April 2022

  • The report made clear that the obstacles to action over the climate crisis are politics and fossil fuel interests.

    IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way

    Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence

25 March 2022

  • Climate Action Now Rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US - 13 Sept 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (12443366z) U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks at the "Climate Action Now" rally held near the Reflecting Pool at the U.S. Capitol. Climate Action Now Rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US - 13 Sept 2021

    Climate action has been ‘a calamity’, says Senate Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse

    Rhode Island Democrat talks to the Guardian about the president’s climate record and targeting oil industry’s ‘achilles heel’

17 March 2022

  • Phil Goldberg poses for a portrait with his bicycle.

    The man who could help big oil derail America’s climate fight

    Phil Goldberg, a self-described ‘committed environmentalist’, has a powerful strategy to shield the largest oil companies in America

16 March 2022

  • Ellen's energy adventure

    A pro-fossil fuel Disney ride voiced by Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Nye? Yes, it existed

    Buckle up for the story of Ellen’s Energy Adventure – a ride whose sympathetic stance toward oil and coal is newly relevant

10 March 2022

  • Logo of Exxon Mobil corporation is shown on a monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

    How oil companies rebranded deceptive climate ads as ‘free speech’

    In two dozen climate liability cases, companies are arguing that their public statements about climate change are not ‘deceptive’ so much as persuasive – and protected free speech
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