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:

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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