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Published May 20, 2021
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) delivered a letter signed by more than 50 Connecticut scientists to Connecticut Attorney General William Tong expressing support for the state’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil. The suit alleges the company misled state consumers about its products’ climate change impacts.
As far back as the 1960s, ExxonMobil knew that the climate consequences of fossil fuel pollution were potentially catastrophic. Equipped with information critical to protect public health and safety, the corporation chose neither to inform the public nor to take actions that would address the problem. Instead, internal fossil fuel industry memos show how companies, including ExxonMobil, chose to spend millions of dollars leading a coordinated campaign of climate disinformation designed to keep the public hooked on oil and gas products.
For Immediate Release, May 12, 2021
Contact:
Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 770-3187, jsu@biologicaldiversity.org
Aisha Dukule, Friends of the Earth, (202) 893-3502, adukule@foe.org
Jennifer Falcon, Indigenous Environmental Network, (218) 760-9958, jennifer@ienearth.org
Alexis Sutterman, California Environmental Justice Alliance, (714) 504-3794, alexis@caleja.org
650 Groups Tell Congress: Leave Dirty Power Out of Clean Electricity Standard
Advocates Warn National Proposals Could Include Fracked Gas, Carbon Capture, Biogas
WASHINGTON More than 650 national advocacy and grassroots groups sent a letter today calling on Congress to develop a truly clean, renewable and just energy standard for electricity as part of an evolving infrastructure package.
WASHINGTON More than 650 national advocacy and grassroots groups sent a letter today calling on Congress to develop a truly clean, renewable, and just energy standard for electricity as part of an evolving infrastructure package.
To meet its climate goals, the Biden administration is expected to back a national Clean Electricity Standard (CES), which some advocates argue can pass under existing budget reconciliation rules.
But existing CES proposals from prominent Democrats allow for filthy and false solutions such as fracked gas, carbon capture and storage, and factory farm biogas, warn groups including Indigenous Environmental Network, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, Food & Water Watch, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, California Environmental Justice Alliance, Oil Change International, and The Democracy Collaborative.