NEWS: 3,700 University of Pennsylvania grad students have unionized with the UAW, in a landslide 1807-to-97 vote.

The union claims they 'will become the largest new private sector union in Philadelphia in over 50 years.'

Thank you to Senate Budget Committee for inviting me to testify as an expert witness in Congress on Wednesday, and especially for exposing thousands of new documents showing that Big Oil's climate promises continue to be full of hot air. ICYMI, here are my opening and closing remarks. 1/n

ICYMI: Big Oil privately ADMITTED to downplaying the climate crisis and lobbying AGAINST climate laws.

Now is the time to hold Big Oil accountable and prioritize the health of our planet.
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Didn’t expect to be invited to Congress to testify as an expert witness about Big Oil’s climate deceit only for a Senator to ask me if I'd call him a “sick f*ck” based on a Tweet I’d never seen.

Thanks to HEATED's Emily Atkin for setting the record straight:heated.world/p/gop-senator-…

We exposed how Big Oil uses universities to rebrand its polluting products as climate-safe—all to protect its bottom line.

Now, Stanford has announced it will examine its fossil fuel-funded research program.

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Our expansive Oversight Committee Democrats and Senate Budget Committee investigation revealed that Big Oil has been pushing climate disinformation since the 1960s. They knew their emissions fueled climate change, but they obscured the science in a shocking betrayal of our people.

We knew they knew. Of course they knew.
But these documents show for the first time oil company leadership internally acknowledging that they knew, and still worked for decades to deny the truth and mislead the public.
This is smoking gun kinda stuff.
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The climate crisis has been fueled by Big Oil’s decades-long campaign of denial, disinformation, and doublespeak.

New documents expose the fossil fuel industry’s evolving strategies to prevent action on climate change.

After this week’s bombshell Big Oil disinformation hearings, support grows for DOJ investigation. Important piece from ⁦Jamie Henn⁩ commondreams.org/opinion/big-oi…

More on the Oversight Committee Democrats Senate Budget Committee fossil fuel disinformation investigation! Wrote about how LNG feels like we're living through another #ExxonKnew and decisions made in the next six months will determine how people are living (or not) in 50 years. drilled.media/news/May2024He…

I’m not surprised that the FTC has found evidence of collusion with the cartel and price-gouging. Congress should pass my windfall profits bill to return Big Oil’s excess gains to the American people’s pockets.

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Former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield would often publicly signal to American producers that they should hold back pumping more oil and gas in order to keep prices high.

But the FTC alleges he also conducted a private campaign directly with OPEC officials. 2/4

New Oversight Committee Democrats report confirms what we’ve known all along: Big Oil has lied to Americans about how their actions and products worsen the climate crisis.

Sent a letter to U.S. Department of Justice last summer calling on them to investigate this deception. More: lieu.house.gov/media-center/p…

We held Big Tobacco accountable.

It's time to hold Big Oil accountable.

Hell, we'll take it a step further: It's time to investigate Big Oil for homicide!

Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco. They create death and destruction, and then spend billions denying their responsibility.

Like the tobacco industry before them, the DOJ must hold these companies accountable for breaking the law.

Our latest report shows that Big Oil has moved way past denying climate change, relying instead on anti-climate:

➡️Deception
➡️Disinformation
➡️Doublespeak

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“We have the receipts. We have overwhelming evidence that [the fossil fuel] industry has known since twice my lifetime about the dangers of their products.” Geoffrey Supran to Bernie Sanders

Big Oil spent decades hiding their pollution while pocketing obscene profits. We’re paying twice—at the pump and in climate chaos. These documents deliver a message loud and clear: polluters should pay us, not delay us. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

As I said in the Senate Budget Committee hearing yesterday: Big Oil is using their gobs of money to fund climate chaos disinformation.

I’m working to shed light on their lies, get dark money out of politics, and stop the dirty energy price gouging that fuels Big Oil’s record profits!

🔥 “The joint report and documents we discovered show how time and again, the biggest oil and gas companies have talked a good game for purposes of public consumption, but have acted in a completely reckless way to protect their long-term profits.” - Rep. Jamie Raskin Oversight Committee Democrats