Climate Deniers

New documents were published by Rebecca John as part of her DeSmog investigation into the oil and gas industry’s early knowledge of climate science and its response to this knowledge. The new documents are available here on ClimateFiles: Stories and Coverage: November 12, 2024 Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions …

Memorial to Dan Zegart 1955-2024

Download the report here. Since the early 1970s, the gas industry has successfully employed Big Tobacco’s tactics to manufacture and magnify controversy over links between gas stove emissions and respiratory illness, obscuring science and undermining public health.  The gas industry funded its own studies in the 1970s and 1980s using the same laboratories, management consultants, …

I have been calling the carbon capture CO2 pipeline buildout plan a “publicly-funded sewer system for the fossil fuel industry” for some time. In fact it’s their only lifeline, and in the meantime it’s also really good for greenwashing and TV ads. A reality check is in order. New analysis here of a major report …

Julia Simon of National Public Radio’s climate team published a marvelous story about the Satartia CO2 pipeline accident that aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. The piece drew from Dan Zegart’s 2021 reporting, including 911 emergency calls that Dan collected in early 2020. This is really the first and best national reporting on the Satartia …

A new study published in Science this week references multiple internal Exxon documents that are available in original form on ClimateFiles. The study got a lot of news coverage: New York Times, Guardian, Associated Press, Politico, LA Times, NPR, CNN, CNBC…

The history of the United States’ involvement in global environmental agreements is a checkered one to say the least. With this project we seek to draw back the curtain and uncover the history of corporate influence on US positions at UN negotiations. New evidence discovered by the Climate Investigations Center reveals that corporate interests, specifically …

REPORTERS: for access to the full webinar tape, please email is at [email protected] Link to 2021 investigation on the Satartia, Mississippi CO2 pipeline accident: CO2 Pipelines and Carbon Capture: The Satartia Mississippi Accident Investigation CO2 Pipeline CCS: Background Materials and Bibliography Links to additional resources, reports, articles from 2022: White House Council on Environmental Quality …

An investigation published on March 24 in the Business Section of the New York Times by Hiroko Tabuchi tells the long history of Exxon/ExxonMobil fighting US sanctions against the USSR and Russia – going back to 1981, President Reagan’s first year in office. As the Times story states: Those efforts, nearly a half-century ago, show …

Track our ongoing public records investigation here Search a bibliography of reference material from our research here Excerpts from The Gassing of Satartia: A Massive Buildout A Small Town Becomes a Guinea Pig for a Huge National Experiment with a Dangerous Gas The February 2020 CO2 pipeline rupture less than half a mile from the …

Overview of Imperial Oil Document Archive Published on ClimateFiles.com Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, took a very different path from Exxon in the U.S. thirty years ago, revealing the vulnerabilities and strategies of an oil company in the age of climate crisis. While Exxon was laying low in the late 1980s – early 1990s, …

To celebrate 2015 Earth Day, we have just released a huge, online, and searchable archive of documents on anti-environmental campaigns, individuals involved in these campaigns and the corporations that back them. The Anti-Environmental Archives, now live on Polluterwatch.com, is a unique archive that reveals the plotting and scheming by industry and industry-funded think tanks and coalitions …