As far back as 1959, oil companies knew they were causing significant and
potentially irreparable harm to the climate.

* Yet they kept on drilling.

* And they actively funded decades of misinformation, propaganda, junk science,
and “climate denialism” — that they KNEW was all a sham — to actively delay a
transition away from fossil fuels.

* They are STILL doing it. Right now. At this very moment.

* All so that a handful of oil barons could get richer and richer — even if it
meant threatening humankind’s survival and the very habitability of our
planet.

On Wednesday — taking a necessary and historic step — Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland)
and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island) formally recommended that the United
States Department of Justice open an investigation into Big Oil’s deceptive
actions.

Here’s what David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, told the
national media:

“It is essential that the Department of Justice investigate the fossil fuel
industry’s misconduct. Strong evidence already in the public domain suggests
that Big Oil has likely violated a number of federal laws. And ... there is
ample reason to think the industry is hiding even worse wrongdoing.”

Big Oil must be held accountable for decades of misconduct that have brought the
world to the brink of climate catastrophe.

Tell the U.S. Department of Justice:
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Big Oil’s insatiable greed has brought the world to the brink of climate
catastrophe. The oil companies have known for 65 years that their business
causes climate change — a fact they not only kept from the public, but actively
obscured through decades of misinformation and junk science. Big Oil must be
investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for any and all crimes
it has committed in its myopic and catastrophic thirst for profits.
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