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Bentley

"The 'global science communications action plan' was introduced at a meeting by the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute which directly says 'we achieve victory when the average citizen recognizes there are uncertainties about climate science' then lays out a plan including getting into the education system."

podcastics.com/episode/352139/

The Climate LensHearts and Minds: Big Oil in the ClassroomHow the fossil fuel industry is shaping school curriculums to create doubt about climate change, its causes, the science and solutions.
#BigOil#Petroganda#PetroPedagogy
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DoomsdaysCW

#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.'"

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msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ma

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#BigOil#BigOilKnew#Oiligarchy
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

Public Citizen last year also proposed filing #CriminalCharges – most notably, #homicide – against the companies.

Asked for a response to the proposal last year, a spokesperson for the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute said: “The record of the past two decades demonstrates that the industry has achieved its goal of providing affordable, reliable American energy to US consumers while substantially reducing emissions and our environmental footprint.”

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theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

The Guardian · ‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisisBy Dharna Noor
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will be sufficient to melt the ice caps and submerge New York,” he said at a symposium organized by the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute, the country’s top fossil fuel lobby group.

And in 1982, an official at the oil corporation #Exxon issued an internal report that found the global heating tied to fossil fuel emissions could “cause flooding on much of the US east coast”.

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theguardian.com/environment/cl

The Guardian · On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warmingBy Guardian staff reporter
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@rahmstorf

#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus

Im Zusammenhang mit den global zunehmenden #Extremwetterereignissen ist interessant, dass die Lobbyausgaben des US-Branchenverbands #AFPM in 2024 den Höchsten Stand aller Zeiten erreichten:

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MastodonHistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus (1/n) *[Ausgaben für] Öl- und Gaslobbyismus erreichen 72 Millionen Dollar in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2024* Von #MollyTaylor (OpenSECRETS.ORG) 15. August 2024 "Der amerikanische Verband der Kraftstoff- und #Petrochemiehersteller... https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/oil-and-gas-lobbying-reaches-72-million-in-first-half-of-2024 #AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
#KochIndustries#KochBrothers#Shell
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