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April 2, 2025

Fossil Free Media

As Midwest Storms Rage, Trump’s War on Science Puts Lives at Risk

As 71 million Americans across the Midwest and South brace for potentially catastrophic flooding and tornadoes this week, they're doing so with significantly reduced support from federal disaster agencies. The National Weather Service warns of "significant, life-threatening flash flooding," while the federal agencies responsible for tracking these storms and coordinating emergency response are being systematically dismantled.

March 20, 2025

Qasim Rashid and Fossil Free Media

Big Oil’s Last Ditch Effort: Immunity for Climate Destruction

Most Americans don’t realize that scientists who worked for Big Oil companies like ExxonMobil warned more than half a century ago that continued exploitation of fossil fuels will cause climate catastrophe. Big Oil knew this to be true, but lied anyway. But it gets even worse. And if we don’t act now, we’ll suffer the continued consequences of Big Oil’s climate destruction. Let’s Address This.

March 18, 2025

Fossil Free Media

The Storm After the Storm: Climate Accountability in an Era of Escalating Disasters

The first – the physical catastrophe that killed at least 40 people across several states – arrived with wind and fire. The second storm, less visible but equally as destructive, lies in how we've structured who bears the burden of these increasingly frequent disasters.

March 13, 2025

Fossil Free Media

The Environmental Polluters Agency: Trump’s Giveaway to Big Oil Takes Shape

Yesterday, Trump's EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced what he's proudly calling the "largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history” - a wholesale handover of the EPA to corporate polluters.

March 7, 2025

Boston Globe

It’s Time to Make the Polluters Pay the Price for Climate Change

Rhode Island’s lawmakers should hold Big Oil accountable by supporting the Climate Superfund Act

February 27, 2025

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February 27, 2025

Fossil Free Media

Senate Democrats Step Up: Now They Need to Stay on Offense

This week, Senate Democrats took a stand against Trump’s manufactured “energy emergency” by pushing a resolution to repeal it. Republicans predictably sided with the fossil fuel industry, but this move by Senate Democrats is exactly the kind of strategic push we need more of.

January 29, 2025

Fossil Free Media

The Empty Threats of an Industry Avoiding Accountability

The Los Angeles fires will cost California an estimated $250-275 billion. As state legislators prepare to reintroduce climate superfund legislation, the fossil fuel industry has already launched a predictable defense: if we make them help cover the damage, they'll have no choice but to pass those costs to consumers.

January 10, 2025

Los Angeles Times

Altadena, my neighborhood, has burned. Make fossil-fuel companies pay

As I write this, my home is at risk, my family’s synagogue and kids’ elementary school have burned down, and many friends have lost everything. My fear and grief are compounded by outrage at the failure to hold fossil-fuel polluters accountable for the devastation they’ve profited from causing.

January 8, 2025

Devastating LA Wildfires Highlight Urgent Need for California Climate Superfund as New York Leads the Way

As multiple wildfires rage across Los Angeles County today, destroying homes, businesses and cultural landmarks while forcing over 80,000 residents to evacuate, climate advocates are calling for urgent passage of California's Polluter Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act (SB 1497) to ensure fossil fuel companies – not taxpayers – bear the mounting costs of climate disasters.