Holding Big Oil’s Feet to the Fire: How Creators Showed Up After the SoCal Fires to Make Polluters Pay

As Southern California battled devastating wildfires in early 2025, Make Polluters Pay teamed up with content creator and climate activist, Lauren Bash, on a piece of content to hold Big Oil’s feet to the fire they helped cause.  […]

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Majority of Americans support requiring oil and gas companies to pay their share of climate damages

A new poll from Data for Progress and Fossil Free Media finds that more American voters are experiencing climate disasters firsthand and watching their costs rise — and they want to make polluters pay. This year brought record-breaking heat domes across the central and eastern U.S., catastrophic flash floods in Texas that swept away homes […]

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Trump FEMA Cuts

The Trump administration is dismantling the agency responsible for helping Americans survive and recover from climate disasters. He’s already slashed a third of FEMA’s workforce, forced out experienced leadership, and appointed officials who don’t even know the basics – like when hurricane season starts. Now he says states should “stand on their own two feet” […]

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Responding to Department of Justice Lawsuits

The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states, Hawaii, Michigan, New York, and Vermont, in a sweeping attempt to shut down state-level climate accountability. The Department of Justice is suing Hawaii and Michigan preemptively, in an effort to block them from filing climate lawsuits that did not yet exist. These lawsuits come directly on the heels of Trump’s […]

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