Center for Climate Integrity

Omar Fateh is the son of hard-working immigrant parents from Somalia. His father arrived in America in 1963 to study civil engineering on a full scholarship to Montana State University. His mother immigrated later and received her masters degree. His parents taught him the necessity of hard work. They instilled in him the values of leadership and personal sacrifice and raised him to work first and foremost to increase opportunity, justice, and equity for our community.

Big Oil and the Plastics Industry’s Public Claims About ‘Advanced Recycling’ Are Undermined By Their Own Words and Experts Big Oil and the plastics industry increasingly market “advanced recycling” as a solution to the plastic waste crisis. Yet the reality of chemical recycling is a far cry from the plastics industry’s promises.

Communities across the U.S. are taking Big Oil to court to hold these corporations accountable for their deception and make polluters pay. States and municipalities across the U.S. have filed lawsuits that seek to hold major oil and gas corporations accountable for deceiving the public about their central role in the climate and plastic pollution crisises.

California communities won an important victory in their efforts to put Big Oil companies on trial for climate deception last week, when a California judge rejected one of the oil and gas companies’ arguments to dismiss their cases. The ruling clears one more hurdle for lawsuits from the state of California and the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Imperial Beach, and Richmond, and the counties of San Mateo, Marin, and Santa Cruz working their way through state court in California.

Multnomah County, Oregon, this week became the first U.S. community to sue a gas utility for climate deception, after the county expanded its 2023 case against several fossil fuel companies to include NW Natural, a regional gas utility accused of misleading consumers about the harms of its products.

OREGON — Multnomah County has become the first U.S. community to sue a gas utility for deceiving the public about its products’ role in the climate crisis, adding NW Natural as a defendant to a 2023 lawsuit that seeks to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers accountable for fueling the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today asked the U.S. Solicitor General to weigh in on a request from 19 states to stop climate deception lawsuits filed against Big Oil companies by five states — California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — in their respective state courts. Legal scholars have called Alabama, et al. v.

CCI works with experts and communities to calculate the price tag of climate adaptation projects and other costs that fossil fuel companies have imposed on local governments. The cost to protect coastal U.S. communities from rising seas by 2040. High Tide Tax Report The cost facing Wisconsin residents and infrastructure from a dozen climate impacts through 2040. Source The cost to mitigate increased flooding in Los Angeles County through 2040.

1989 Shell - “Greenhouse Effect: Shell Anticipates a Sea Change” A New York Times article detailing why Shell was raising its oil platforms in preparation for sea level rise. Read the document

The oil giant has a pattern of abandoning its climate goals. BP recently announced plans to sell its onshore wind business, BP Wind Energy, stating that the sale is “part of our strategy of continuing to simplify our portfolio and focus on value.” The news comes after BP’s chief executive announced earlier this year that the oil giant plans to increase its fossil fuel output, despite the company’s claims that it is committed to advancing a transition away from fossil fuels.