'I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper' - Dr. David R. Boyd

✍️ Nina Lakhani

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1. FTC's investigation into the Exxon-Pioneer deal revealed an elaborate campaign by Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield to collude with OPEC officials and inflate oil prices.

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UPDATE: Today the VT House advanced its climate superfund bill by a 100-33 tri-partisan supermajority vote. It's on track to officially pass the full legislature by next week

This is a big deal. It'd be the first law to impose strict liability on #BigOil for climate pollution

🆕 from Climate in the Courts

In testimony to Congress this week, Sharon Y. Eubanks suggested the Dept. of Justice should open a probe and consider prosecuting Big Oil like it did with Big Tobacco

DOJ is not commenting on the matter

climateinthecourts.com/news/us-states…

'Our investigation uncovered public pledges undermined by private memos...rampant evidence of deception & corporate doublespeak' - Sheldon Whitehouse at yesterday's #BigOil #ClimateAccountability hearing

Check out my coverage at the link here 👇

oneearthnow.substack.com/p/the-conseque…

Read more in my news story, climateinthecourts.com/news/court-gra…

Youth plaintiffs & their attorneys say they are not giving up

“This is a tragic and unjust ruling, but it is not over' said Julia Olson, chief legal counsel Our Children's Trust

During the Senate Budget Committee #BigOil #ClimateAccountability hearing underway now, Sen. Van Hollen talked about the 'climate superfund' polluter pays proposal

Several states are taking this up - and Vermont is on the verge of passing it into law 👀

oneearthnow.substack.com/p/this-strateg…

📝NEW REPORT: Today, Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin and Senate Budget Committee Chairman @SenWhiteHouse released a report unveiling new documents exposing the fossil fuel industry’s evolving strategies to spread disinformation and prevent action on climate change. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…

This week, we’re shining a light on the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign of deceit about climate change.

Tune in Wednesday, May 1st at 9am.

Here's a reminder (via a thoroughly reported piece by Dana Drugmand DeSmog) that fossil fuel companies see CCS as their path to persist

desmog.com/2023/02/13/exx…

'Subpoenaed internal oil industry communications shows CCS as the linchpin for more oil and gas development.'

🚨Big Oil is bringing Zombie Pipelines to your town.

Fossil fuel giants are spending Biden admin tax incentives on building toxic CO2 pipelines. Their lobbyists are fighting to limit safety protections.

The fossil fuel industry has lied about their role in climate change for far too long.

Sheldon Whitehouse calls a hearing to hold Big Oil companies and their enablers accountable for their deception.

Climate cost recovery bills are pending in several states. VT's bill could soon pass the full legislature 👀

My latest piece on this here ✍️

This Strategy Could Be a Game Changer for Holding Big Oil Accountable

#ClimateAccountability

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Honored & excited to be testifying to Congress next Wed at Senate Budget Committee Committee's hearing on 'Denial, Disinformation, & Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change', w/ Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sharon Y. Eubanks. Tune in 9am ET: budget.senate.gov/hearings/denia…

I (finally) made a Substack pub ✍️

🌍 One Earth Now - dispatches on climate action & accountability during this decisive decade

It's bare bones & a work in progress, but glad to have another outlet for my original reporting

Check out my first post

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Increasingly sophisticated fossil fuel PR campaigns are making climate disinfo more difficult for journalists and the public to spot. This explainer looks at 5 of the industry’s go-to disinfo tactics. By Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope for The Guardian… theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

“No other case in the history of this country has faced this level of government persecution' - Juliana v. US plaintiff Isaac Vergun, speaking out on his 22nd bday

Youth across #youthvgov US climate cases rallied yesterday in DC

My news story here

climateinthecourts.com/news/youth-cli…

'A paper published in Harvard University Environmental Law Review last week argues that... oil giants’ awareness that their pollution could have lethal consequences solidly fits within the definition of homicide.'
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