Climate Change

Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accuses Oil Giant of Fraud

"Oil giant ExxonMobil, already fighting a climate-related investor fraud case in New York, was hit with a second lawsuit late Thursday: The Massachusetts Attorney General is accusing the company of defrauding investors and threatening the world economy."

Source: InsideClimate News, 10/25/2019

"How to Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion"

"$300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. ... The sum is not to fund green technologies or finance a moonshot solution to emissions, but to use simple, age-old practices to lock millions of tons of carbon back into an overlooked and over-exploited resource: the soil."

Source: Bloomberg, 10/24/2019

Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Crisis, House Dems Hear In Testimony

"House Democrats on Wednesday laid out four decades of evidence that oil behemoth Exxon knew since the 1970s that the burning of fossil fuels was heating the planet and intentionally sowed doubt about the climate crisis."

Source: Guardian, 10/24/2019
November 5, 2019

NPF Webinar: Covering Clean Energy and Politics

In this free National Press Foundation webinar (1:00-2:00 p.m. EST), we will help journalists understand clean energy and climate change and the resources you’ll need to cover these issues in an election year. Topics to be covered include global trends and challenges, fuel diversity, and government incentives and pressures.

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