Big Oil and the plastics industry knew decades ago that plastic recycling isn’t viable — but they keep lying about it to protect their profits.

“The plastics industry understands that selling recycling sells plastic,” CCI’s Davis Allen explains in this CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 story ⬇️

“The plastics industry understands that selling recycling sells plastic.”
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In the U.S., around 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated annually, but only 5% to 6% gets recycled. A new report 'The Fraud of Plastic Recycling,' accuses the plastics industry of misleading the public about recycling's effectiveness. cbsn.ws/3U0ynYR

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🚨 THIS SUNDAY: Davis Allen of Center for Climate Integrity will discuss “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling” on CBS Sunday Morning 🌞.

Learn how Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis. cbsnews.com/amp/news/this-…

Hey look, it’s Big Oil’s *entire strategy.* It’s telling that this sentence could be placed in literally any article about climate action. In this case, they’re fighting against new reporting requirements—but like always, we’re ready to fight back for progress.

I get the question, “How can Biden fire up the climate base?” and the answer is: ceasefire.

This is an intersectional movement, but there’s also just basic moral clarity.

It’s hard to cheer about the US putting up solar panels when US bombs are dropping on children.

A new report estimates the costs of climate adaptation measures in L.A. County: at least $12.5 billion over the next 15 years. Center for Climate Integrity says oil & gas companies should be held accountable for their role. Hayley Smith breaks down these climate costs: latimes.com/environment/st…

Los Angeles County faces massive costs to protect residents & infrastructure from the climate crisis Big Oil fueled for decades.

“We are saying do not make the taxpayers pay for all of this but make the oil companies pay their fair share of these costs.” dailybreeze.com/2024/04/05/cli…

thank you thank you THANK YOU Emily Atkin for raising the issue of fossil fuel funding in media at the closing plenary of the society of environmental journalists conference.

'we are selling these companies the ability to lie to our readers'

One easy place to start would be for DOJ to take an honest look at a civil RICO fraud case like the case it won against Big Tobacco. insideclimatenews.org/news/04042024/…

Everyone working on this at Shell Oil and at their lawyers Clifford Chance should be ashamed of themselves: deliberately trying to sabotage any sensible climate goal

And this after Shell ditched a key 2035 climate target and weakened another for 2030

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Investing in climate adaptations now can save money — and lives — later, [Center for Climate Integrity President Richard Wiles] said.

“These costs are still coming,” Wiles said. “The next disaster will happen. This is just what it’s going to cost to prepare.”
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Dozens of communities are closer than ever to putting Big Oil on trial for climate lies.

“It’s all building toward more cases in more places using more legal theories to hold these companies accountable,” CCI President Richard Wiles told Stateline
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Adapting to climate change will cost Los Angeles County $12.5 billion over the next 15 years, Center for Climate Integrity says — and that’s a conservative estimate that doesn’t include damage from extreme weather. Story by my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith: latimes.com/environment/st…

Communities are getting stuck with enormous climate costs, while the fossil fuel companies that caused this crisis — and lied about it — pay nothing.

It's time to hold Big Oil accountable and make polluters pay their fair share of the damage they've caused.

L.A. County faces $12.5 billion in climate costs through 2040, study says latimes.com/environment/st…

After a long slog, climate change lawsuits will finally put Big Oil on trial newsfromthestates.com/article/after-…

Revelations show how major oil companies worked together to deny the connection between extreme weather events and climate change, anticipating legal challenges amid mounting climate lawsuits.
truthout.org/articles/how-i…

NEW: As more communities sue oil majors following climate disasters, a just-published collection of evidence reveals the industry’s decades-long efforts to deny, obscure, & downplay the link between extreme weather and climate change.

take a look: exxonknews.org/p/big-oil-clou…