Unfair.org Television Ads from 1998

These TV ads were produced after the Kyoto Protocol was agreed in December 1997. They link to a URL “Unfair.org” and list the phone number 1-800-USA-PAYS. Subtle. There is no trace of this website that

Global Climate Information Project ClimateFacts.org 1997 TV Ads

Success! Just recovered some 23 year old TV ads via my old friend Eric Gravley of PlanetVox. Way back in the late 1990s, early 2000s, before YouTube, before digital media, DVRs, “on demand” and all

Three More Climate Lawsuits, September 2020: Hoboken, Charleston and Delaware

We are experiencing a torrential downpour of climate lawsuits. After new suits filed this summer by the State of Minnesota and Washington, DC, now in the past week or so there have been three more

BBC Radio Series Tracks History of Climate Denial

The BBC has launched a two hour series on the history of corporate climate denial. The series starts in 1988 and traces the rise in climate policy attacks through the George W. Bush Administration in

Climate Lawsuit: State of Minnesota v. ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, API – June 2020

Link to annotated brief: Minnesota v. ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, API

Climate Lawsuit: Washington, DC v. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP – June 2020

Link to complaint with hyperlinked footnotes and referenced documents: Washington, DC v. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP

Climate Lawsuit Index: Complaints with links to footnotes and referenced documents

The following is an index of recent climate lawsuits. We uploaded each complaint on DocumentCloud and added an electronic index and links to all available documents referenced or footnoted in the lawsuits. Connecticut v. ExxonMobil

Renewable Natural Gas

The natural gas industry promotes Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) as its answer to a growing call for building electrification and ordinances prohibiting natural gas in new construction. RNG, which is the rebranding of biomethane, is

Exxon and Friends Still Funding Climate Denial and Obstruction Through IPAA, FTI, Energy in Depth

UPDATE January 2024- Exxon recently revealed a decision made some time in 2022, to drop its membership in IPAA apparently over differences on climate change strategy. This was found in the back pages of its

Imperial Oil Document Trove

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