Fossil fuel companies knew they were damaging the planet—and spent millions to mislead the public. Is the law about to catch up with them? Read more >
Reality Bites: Fossil Fuel Companies Face Climate Liability Claims After Decades of Denial
Kathy Mulvey, climate accountability campaign director
June 10, 2019 9:22 AM EDT
Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr
Shell Puts Trade Groups on Notice about Climate Policy
Kathy Mulvey, climate accountability campaign director
April 2, 2019 2:42 PM EDT
Today, Royal Dutch Shell published its Industry Associations Climate Review, delivering on a promise made late last year to leading institutional investors who are concerned about climate change. Shell’s review follows a similar report published by BHP in late 2017, and raises the transparency bar for fossil fuel industry competitors and their trade groups. Read more >
Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr
What to Expect—and Not to Expect—in ExxonMobil’s 2019 Climate Risk Report
Kathy Mulvey, climate accountability campaign director
January 31, 2019 10:03 AM EDT
The release of ExxonMobil’s 2019 Outlook for Energy and its 2019 Energy and Carbon Summary may come as early as this week. Published in response to shareholder demands, the 2018 Energy and Carbon Summary was supposed to disclose the company’s plans for a world in which global temperature increase is kept well below two degrees Celsius (2°C). Drawing on UCS’s 2018 Climate Accountability Scorecard and our ongoing engagement with the company, here are four things to expect—and one thing not to expect—in ExxonMobil’s 2019 Energy and Carbon Summary.
Exxon refinery in Baytown, Texas.
Fossil Fuel Giants Are Pumping Out Greenwashing—Their Tricks Won’t Work
Kathy Mulvey, climate accountability campaign director
November 13, 2018 9:43 AM EDT
In recent months, we’ve seen fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), pledge $1 million to support a carbon tax, announce measures to reduce methane emissions, and join the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). Is the company finally getting serious about addressing climate change? Um, no. We found that these companies still appear to be trying to trick us with greenwashing. Here are six tricks by ExxonMobil and some of its key competitors that we’re countering with our public exposure and organizing. Read more >
Photo: Brenda Ekwurzel
Yes, ExxonMobil and Chevron are Still Distorting Climate Science
Brenda Ekwurzel, senior climate scientist
October 23, 2018 1:00 PM EDT
If you look at headlines from the last year, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major fossil fuel companies have seemingly turned a new page on climate change. But, as I and my colleagues have analyzed, this “support” is a PR distraction when these companies are keeping up business-as-usual. Today UCS released a scorecard,which analyzed what eight major fossil fuel companies are saying they’re doing about climate change, and just how much these companies are doing to drastically lower their emissions. Read more >
