Today in Labor History March 24, 1989: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, dumping 240,000 barrels of crude oil. It was the largest oil spill in U.S. history until the Deepwater Horizon spill, in 2010. A major cause for the tanker’s collision was an overworked and under-rested crew, which the National Transportation Safety Board determined was a widespread practice. Thousands of people who participated in the cleanup efforts developed liver, kidney, lung, nervous system, and blood disorders due to 2-butoxyethanol and other agents that were used. An estimated 250,000 sea birds; 2,800 sea otters; 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles; 22 orcas; and unknown numbers of fish were killed by the spill. A study by the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA found that 90 tons of oil remained on beaches in Prince William Sound in 2001. The devastation to the local fisheries caused the bankruptcy of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation.

Victory in Vermont!

The Green Mountain State's climate accountability lawsuit against #BigOil is moving one step closer toward trial after a state judge rejected the companies’ arguments to dismiss the case.

#Vermont is seeking to make #Exxon and its peers stop lying about the dangers of their products, including requiring a disclosure at every point of sale in the state about the role of #FossilFuels in #ClimateChange,

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#Maine Sues Major #OilCompanies Over ‘Ongoing Deception’ About #ClimateChange

The lawsuit follows similar suits by eight other states and the District of Columbia against major oil companies, all alleging complicity in climate change. Those states are New Jersey, California, Delaware, Minnesota, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Story by Nina Golgowski
November 27, 2024

"The state of Maine has filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies and their top lobbying group, accusing them of carrying out a decades-long disinformation campaign about climate change and their contribution to it in order to maximize profits.

"Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, in his lawsuit filed Tuesday in state court, accuses Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco and the American Petroleum Institute of withholding internal knowledge about fossil fuels’ catastrophic effects all while spinning public doubt.

"'For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects,' said Frey in a statement. 'In so doing, they burdened the State and our citizens with the consequences of their greed and deception.'"

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maine-sues-major-oil-companies-over-ongoing-deception-about-climate-change/ar-AA1uSBhg

why don't we stop naming #storms, #hurricanes and #typhoons after people and start naming them after #oil companies.

"Storm #BP is bringing widespread damage and flooding to the West of England"

"Hurricane #Exxon is smashing into Florida and trying to demolish it, the bits that it can't blow over are underwater"

It has a certain ring to it.

Well well well

Exxon CEO says Trump should keep U.S. involved in global effort to address #ClimateChange

"Woods warned that #Exxon’s investments in carbon capture technologies would change if federal tax incentives are weakened under Trump."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/12/exxon-ceo-says-trump-should-keep-us-involved-in-global-effort-to-address-climate-change.html

#ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical #Recycling as a Solution for the #Plastics Crisis
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The #California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled #plastic that they claim to have.

https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california

BREAKING: Today, we and our partners took action against Exxon for #plastic polymer pollution & for misrepresenting plastics recycling.

SF Bay has some of the highest levels of #microplastics in the world -- and that's why we're going after #Exxon to stop plastic pollution at the source.

Big thanks to our coalition partners at Heal the Bay, Sierra Club, Surfrider, and Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and to AG Bonta for filing a similar lawsuit.

Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/17246/

How Exxon chases billions in US subsidies for a ‘climate solution’ that helps it drill more oil - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture-government-subsidies "Climate experts raise red flags as oil giant spends millions lobbying while touting ‘underperforming’ carbon capture" #exxon is pure evil

Carbon capture and storage is bullshit.
Said Exxon.
Quietly to itself.

"#Exxon’s past projections were much more in line with what critics of #CCS have been saying for years. The IPCC has said that even if realized at its full announced potential, CCS would only account for about 2.4 % of the world’s carbon mitigation by 2030.

Because it also requires energy and materials to function, CCS is still worse for the climate than replacing fossil energy with renewables."

https://www.vox.com/climate/363076/climate-change-solution-shell-exxon-mobil-carbon-capture

"Trump promised to scrap #climate laws if #US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

#Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse #pollution rules among other pitches

#DonaldTrump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s #environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

In front of more than 20 executives, including from #Chevron, #Exxon and #OccidentalPetroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the #GulfOfMexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan #Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car #pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural# gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.

“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.""

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation

#Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic https://buff.ly/3UsR8W9 via FT

#Exxon: absurd hoher Milliarden-Rekordgewinn

#Shell: absurd hoher Milliarden-Rekordgewinn

#BP: absurd hoher Milliarden-Rekordgewinn

Skeptischer Claus-Dieter: „Die #Klimakatastrophe ist eine linksgrüne Verschwörung, um uns allen das Geld für angeblichen „Klimaschutz“ aus der Tasche zu ziehen und die Fossilindustrie zu ruinieren!!!“

Good reporting from Emily Atkin @emorwee and Arielle Samuelson via their excellent #HEATED newsletter:

Big Oil is quietly paying state legal officials to kill climate litigation
Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court.

https://heated.world/p/big-oil-is-quietly-paying-state-legal

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateLegal #ClimateLitigation #journalism #boost #ClimateCrisis