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John Smilie remembers learning in the fourth grade that most of the world’s energy came from non-renewable sources and one day they’d run out. Yet as he grew up reading science and tech …

Stacker looked at the legal landscape of pending lawsuits against oil companies, citing data from the Center for Climate Integrity.

Big oil companies have long known about climate change, but they still take no notice, says Marco Magrini

Big oil companies have long known about climate change, but they still take no notice, says Marco Magrini

1959 was before the moon landing, before the Beatles’ first single, before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

By Benjamin Franta, Stanford UniversityFour years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change – and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what the...

Science historian Ben Franta unpacks some of the most critical documents exposing what the fossil fuel industry knew and when they knew it.

Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science. Now, CEOs are testifying before Congress.

The fossil fuel industry’s own words show that it knew about the risks of climate change long before most of the rest of the world.

Read time: 6 mins By Nick Cunningham • Friday, January 15, 2021 - 07:08 The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents. API “was promulgating false and misleading information about climate change in 1980, nearly a decade earlier tha...