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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also, by my count, this is the 4th pro-oil industry op-ed relating to Suncor that the Washington Post has published. Nothing so far representing Boulder's side. That's fine, I suppose. News outlets have always had editorial slants.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 17/09/2026

🚨NEW: Justice Alito was warned that climate deception lawsuits against Phillips 66 & ConocoPhillips pose financial risks to his investments. Still, he won't recuse from Suncor v. Boulder, which Big Oil companies told the justices could "resolve" the lawsuits in which Alito has a financial interest.

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Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips Warned Justice Alito His Oil Investments Face Material Risk From Climate Lawsuits For Years; Their Trade Association, Suncor and Exxon Briefed Him on How to Eliminate th...

Documents On File At The Supreme Court Of The United States And The Securities And Exchange Commission Establish That Justice Alito Has A Direct Financial…

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 31/08/2026

Big Oil companies have knowingly fueled "catastrophic" climate damages for decades. But they concealed the threat and deceived the public while communities paid the price. The people of Boulder deserve their day in court to hold Big Oil accountable and make them pay for the harm they caused.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/08/2026

🚨 JUST IN: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County on Monday, October 5. Suncor and ExxonMobil want the Court to stop Boulder's climate deception case against the oil companies before it goes to trial. Here's what you need to know👇

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Boulder and Exxon’s coming Supreme Court clash, explained. | Center for Climate Integrity

As Big Oil tries to escape accountability, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of dozens of climate deception lawsuits. Here’s what you need to know.

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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When FOIA documents reveal a hidden truth ... Brief explainer on how Big Gas ducked concerns about its methane emissions to sell gas as a 'climate solution.' Our gas dependent world was not inevitable. This study is one of the key building blocks.

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 26/07/2026

Why do we call fossil gas "natural" gas? A new report from @climateintegrity.org “shines a light on a decades-long public relations campaign by oil and gas companies to re-brand natural gas as ‘clean energy’” after internal company research found that methane emissions was fueling climate change.

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How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A spokeswoman for the E.P.A., Brigid Hirsch, described the Center for Climate Integrity as “full of left-wing climate cultists” 🙃

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 21/07/2026

The New York Times reports that our latest investigation — "The Fraud of 'Clean' Natural Gas" — "casts a harsh light on how the oil and gas industry has previously communicated the role of natural gas in global warming." They knew. They lied. And they must be held accountable.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Recent Belgian Heatwave Declared Deadliest on Record: “the situation during the peak weekend was so severe that excess mortality surpassed even the worst weekend of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between June 22nd and June 27th, a staggering 1,747 excess deaths were recorded.” #Belgium #heatwave #europe

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 09/07/2026

"Legal action cannot undo the pain and suffering that fossil fuel companies have caused with their callous disregard for the well-established lethal impacts of their products, but it can secure a measure of justice for Big Oil’s victims and their families," said CCI's Richard Wiles.

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First Wrongful Death Climate Case Against Big Oil Wins Major Rulings, Moves Toward Trial | Center for Climate Integrity

Misti Leon’s Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Big Oil Accountable for Fueling the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome that Killed Her Mother

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“States, tribes, and municipalities have the right to utilize state laws to hold wrongdoers accountable in many industries,” wrote 21 state attorneys general and local officials in a letter Monday to the top Democrats of several House committees. #NoImmunityForBigOil

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E&E News: State and city attorneys urge Congress to not block climate lawsuits

Republican legislation would grant the oil and gas industry immunity from litigation that seeks compensation for the costs of climate change.

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

after walking 212 miles across Spain I am back! and have returned to a Signal lapse since my computer & phone went out of sync -- if you messaged me there over the past month, please resend 🫥 and send any stories I should see from the past month my way!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/06/2026

No industry should receive a blanket exemption from accountability under the law. I'm urging Congress to reject Big Oil's immunity proposal and stand with states, taxpayers, and the rule of law — not special protections for powerful corporations.

Governor JB Pritzker joined nine fellow governors from across the country urging Congress to reject federal legislation that would grant sweeping legal protections to fossil fuel companies and limit the authority of states and local governments to enforce their own laws.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 10/06/2026

🚨Fossil fuel-backed groups are trying to influence judges who could preside over climate lawsuits against Big Oil. As a fracking executive, Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke to private audiences of judges at least 3 times at events whose sponsors have funding ties to Exxon, Koch, and Leonard Leo.

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The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis

US energy secretary Chris Wright featured in seminars to judges when he was a fracking executive

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 27/05/2026

NEW: @dataforprogress.org finds voters overwhelmingly oppose giving oil and gas corporations immunity from climate lawsuits. 73% of Democrats, 71% of Independents, and 53% of Republicans agree that Big Oil should not be above the law.

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Some exciting news: this is the end of ExxonKnews on Substack, but I’ll be launching a new and expanded climate accountability reporting project from Ghost later this year. I'll be offline for the next month, but will check signal/email when I'm back --stay in touch. Much more to come!

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The future of this reporting project

It’s the end of the ExxonKnews era and the beginning of something new.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

From yesterday:

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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Alito should recuse from Suncor v. Boulder, along with the parallel cases, as he has before. What I told @nbcnews.com: “The oil company petitioners in these cases have been explicit in court filings that they view the cases as linked; there is no reason for Justice Alito to view them otherwise."

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Justice Alito pushes back on calls to sit out a major Supreme Court climate case

The conservative justice has no financial conflict that would require him to recuse himself from the case, a court spokeswoman told NBC News.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Trump admin, 6 years after MN sued Exxon, Koch, API, for climate deception, and weeks after MN Supreme Court said it could move into discovery: This is an EMERGENCY and the court needs to shut it down NOW! MN: WTF are you talking about? Waiting 6 years “demonstrates that there is no imminent harm”

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E&E News: Trump DOJ urges court to halt Minnesota climate lawsuit

EPA and the State Department say the lawsuit is undermining federal authority. DOJ has lost similar cases against states.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Yesterday the Trump Department of Justice sued Minnesota to stop its climate deception lawsuit against some of the world’s most powerful fossil fuel interests. The DOJ filed the lawsuit at the *exact* moment the case was cleared to move into discovery, after 6 years of procedural purgatory.

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UPDATE: Trump’s DOJ swoops in to save Big Oil

Trump’s DOJ just sued Minnesota to stop its climate deception case, right as it was finally allowed to move toward discovery.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/05/2026

🚨 The Trump admin is suing Minnesota to stop the state's climate deception lawsuit against Exxon, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute from going forward. “This is a desperate effort to shield the architects of Big Oil’s decades-long climate deception from facing accountability.”

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Trump Admin. Sues Minnesota to Shield Big Oil from Climate Deception Suit | Center for Climate Integrity

DOJ Sues to Block Minnesota’s Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute Days After State Supreme Court Ruled Case Could Enter Discovery

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The reason Big Oil is pushing so hard to get blanket legal immunity from Congress is that they are criminals who have profited from many crimes, and do not wish to be held accountable.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Last year a fossil fuel advocate said it was "complete and total paranoia" and "pure fiction" when climate groups warned Big Oil was lobbying for legal immunity. One year later, same guy says "we look forward to working with" Republican sponsors of the bill to give Big Oil immunity. 🤔

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I really enjoyed talking to @emorwee.bsky.social about why Big Oil is scared of the courtroom and wants to be above the law forever. Visit www.noimmunityforbigoil.org to learn more and take action to protect our right to hold Big Oil accountable.

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The New Extreme Bill To Ban Lawsuits Against Big Oil Forever

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@mikemeno.bsky.social notes, “What’s really scary to think about is the bad behavior that fossil fuel companies have engaged in over the years. How much worse do we think their behavior will get when they’re given that sort of get out of jail free card?”

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Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever

Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this?

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits

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Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever

Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this?

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 18/04/2026

You should read this in full, but in short, John Roberts and the other Koch plants on the Supreme Court blew up the Supreme Court to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate regulation.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In February, Ted Cruz and Harriet Hageman told E&E they "hadn't heard" from oil industry groups when Hageman said she'd intro a bill to immunize Big Oil. Then -SURPRISE!- two major fossil fuel lobby groups are quoted in Hageman's press release thanking her & Cruz for introducing these bills. 🤔 🤔

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 17/04/2026

🚨After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that would give oil and gas companies immunity from any laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. Time to get loud: 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 13/04/2026

If Big Oil were given total legal immunity, "it would be an injustice with lasting and cascading harm," writes @cadavejones.bsky.social. "The public would keep paying for the costs of climate change, while the fossil fuel companies most responsible for them would continue to pay nothing."

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Opinion | Gun Manufacturers Won the Ultimate Legal Shield. Big Oil Wants That, Too.

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump is not just a creation of Big Oil, he is the most vivid expression of its values and moral character.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

On the other site, a pro-fossil fuel voice is having a meltdown about this article and calling for "a legal safe harbor" for fossil fuel companies modeled on ... Section 230, which [checks notes] is wildly unpopular across the political spectrum and took a significant hit in the recent Meta ruling.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 02/04/2026

Big Oil should not be above the law — but that's exactly what fossil fuel lobbyists are pushing for in Congress and statehouses across the country. The New York Times lays out how Big Oil's "goal is broad immunity, similar to what Congress granted to gun manufacturers two decades ago." 👇

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Republicans Seek Protections for Oil Giants Against Climate Lawsuits

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 31/03/2026

Big Oil companies have lied for DECADES about the "catastrophic" dangers of their fossil fuel products, and are now "afraid of being held to account for their own lies," says @govjayinslee.bsky.social. Big Oil must not be above the law.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 31/03/2026

We could've phased out fossil fuels the gradual, smart and painless way starting in the 1990s The fossil fuel industry decided we have to do it the painful, unfair and cruel way instead. because that gave them an extra few decades of super-profits

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 27/03/2026

Big Oil companies are lobbying Congress to put them above the law. @govjayinslee.bsky.social joined @waytooearly.bsky.social to sound the alarm on why the public’s ability to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its climate lies must be protected.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 25/03/2026

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Big Oil companies' arguments for why they shouldn't stand trial for their climate lies. First, the big question: ➡️ Is there any reason to think the justices won’t simply side with Big Oil? @janecoaston.bsky.social and @mikemeno.bsky.social discuss.

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Mike Meno @mikemeno.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Oh look, a Supreme Court justice enjoying the outdoors with [checks notes] ... a billionaire investor of an oil company that's asking SCOTUS to help it escape a climate deception lawsuit in Colorado. Alito, who owns stock in Big Oil companies facing similar suits, has not recused.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, center, and hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, right, hold king salmon with another guest. Photo obtained by ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

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