Big Oil

Lockout At Largest Inland Oil Refinery Continues

March 28, 2026 Matthew Gutowski, People's World. Resist! Big Oil, Indiana, Lockout, Worker Rights

Whiting, IN—A fire is burning in Whiting, Indiana. At midnight on March 19, some 800 Steelworker union members at the largest inland oil refinery in the United States were locked out of the expansive facility south of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan. The lockout was the culmination of a months-long negotiation between USW Local 7-1 and multinational energy giant BP. United Steelworkers represents workers across various industries including oil, steel, glass, and other energy producing industries. Since the lockout, picket lines are positioned at each entrance to the facility.

Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast

March 17, 2026 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Cancer Alley, Fossil Fuels, health, Louisiana

Scott Eustis is doing what he can to keep Louisiana afloat. As a veteran wetland and fisheries researcher and lifelong resident, he says he is sure of what caused the damage to the state’s delicate marshlands and drowning coast: the oil drilling that employed his grandfather decades prior. “My granddad worked for these companies,” said Eustis. “If he were still alive, he would tell you, straight up: They owe us the land.” For a century, oil companies dredged canals through coastal wetlands, dissecting marshes to get to and from wells, and dumped toxic wastewater into marshes and unlined earthen pits. Those wells, canals, pits, and leftover pollution were largely abandoned.

Iran War Described As ‘Biggest Opportunity’ At US Oil Lobby Summit

February 14, 2026 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Big Oil, Capitalism, Iran, Wars and Militarism

When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed attempts to steer their agenda, particularly in Venezuela, where he has demanded they immediately restart operations.

Michigan, The Auto State, Is Suing Big Oil

February 8, 2026 Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews. Resist! Big Oil, Electric Vehicles, Fossil Fuels, Legal System, Michigan

Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe. The state of Michigan, home of America’s auto industry, is a thriving hub for electric vehicles. They are not “a fringe technology or a luxury alternative,” but rather, “a common sight in every neighborhood — rolling off assembly lines in Flint, parked in driveways in Dearborn, charging outside grocery stores in Grand Rapids, and running quietly down Woodward Avenue.” That Michigan could have existed by now, a new lawsuit brought by state Attorney General Dana Nessel argues, if four major oil companies and their biggest trade group hadn’t conspired to block it for decades.

ExxonMobil Moves To Reshape Global Climate Accounting

January 26, 2026 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Corporatism, Exxon, pollution

“Pollution is everybody’s business,” Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian affiliate, wrote in a 1970 report, “because essentially all of it results from the activities of men working to satisfy the needs and desires of men.” Fast forward over a half century and Imperial’s old argument is taking a new form. Today, ExxonMobil is seeking to upend how carbon emissions are accounted for — by changing the rules of the game. An ExxonMobil-backed initiative, Carbon Measures, is pushing to reshape how the world does the math on climate change. Their system, outside analysts point out, leaves consumers holding the bag.

Oil Executives Rebuff Trump’s Demands For Investment In Venezuela

January 11, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Big Oil, Oil, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela

At a meeting at the White House on 9 January, the CEOs of major US energy firms expressed skepticism about participating in President Donald Trump’s scheme to invest $100 billion to “revive” Venezuela’s sanctions-battered oil sector. The meeting took place one week after US Special Forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and transferred them to New York to stand trial on trumped-up “narco-terrorism” charges. After abducting Maduro, Trump said the US would “take over” Venezuela’s oil reserves, which are considered the largest in the world.

Campaigners Disrupt Oil Executive Awards Dinner In London

December 4, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Big Oil, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, London

To highlight damage caused by the oil and gas industry, campaigners from Fossil Free London interrupted the World Energy Council Assembly’s dinner at the Hilton in Mayfair on 3 December. Oil and gas executives had gathered to present and receive industry “achievement awards”. Award nominees and attendees included Shell, BP, and Ithaca Energy. Campaigners chanted “no awards for climate criminals”, as they were dragged out of the building by security. The protest comes after devastating flooding has killed at least 1,250 people across much of southeast Asia in recent days.

How Exxon Exported Climate Denial To The Global South

November 4, 2025 Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, climate denial, Global South, Rightwing think tanks

In early September, the Danish climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg travelled to São Paulo to deliver a stark warning. On the sidelines of a conference called the Forum Caminhos da Liberdade, happening just as Brazil was gearing up to host annual global climate talks (known as “COP30”) in November, Lomborg claimed that if implemented poorly, government efforts to address climate change could “destroy economic growth.” Lomborg had some behind-the-scenes assistance to help his message land, because one of the top 2025 sponsors of the conference (whose speakers in previous years have included Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel), was Atlas Network, a United States-based worldwide coalition of more than 500 free-market think tanks and allied partners.

Fast Tracking A Pipeline To BC’s Coast Will Undermine Canada’s Security

July 16, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, Canada, Environment, Indigenous Sovereignty, Pipelines

“Now the real work starts.” These words from Prime Minister Mark Carney marked the rapid passage of Bill C-5, which grants sweeping powers to his cabinet to fast-track infrastructure projects. While his recent meeting with Canada’s premiers was described as a love-in, the love may be short lived if certain powerful industries don’t get the pony they thought they were promised. I speak of course of the oil patch and their relentless demands for more pipelines, whether they are needed or not. The long-dead Northern Gateway proposal to B.C.’s north coast seems to be top of the fossil fuel wish list, backed up by recent comments from Carney.

Family Sues Fossil Fuel Giants For Wrongful Death

June 1, 2025 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. Resist! Accountability, Big Oil, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Lawsuits, Preventative Deaths, Washington

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, seeking to hold them accountable for the death of her mother during an unprecedented heatwave that scientists say would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. Misti Leon filed the lawsuit in King County Superior Court against ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and BP subsidiary Olympic Pipeline Company. She alleges the companies are liable for the death of her mother, Juliana Leon, who died of hyperthermia after being exposed to extreme heat in June 2021.

How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create A Climate Denial Echo Chamber

January 18, 2025 Sharon Kelly, DeSmog. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, climate denial, Plastic Industry, Science Denial, Social Media

From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS Climate concludes. The study found that all of the organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), were mentioned by at least four of the other groups – helping to essentially create an echo chamber for similar messages.

Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil Over New Law

January 12, 2025 Alexandra Jacobo, Nation of Change. Educate! Big Oil, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Vermont

In a move that could set a precedent for climate accountability laws across the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (API) have filed a lawsuit against the state of Vermont. The lawsuit challenges Vermont’s groundbreaking law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by climate change, which has increasingly devastated the state through extreme weather events. The law, passed in 2024, makes Vermont the first state in the nation to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for a share of the financial burden caused by climate change.

Claudia Sheinbaum De-Privatizes Two Major Oil And Energy Companies

November 2, 2024 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Create! Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Big Oil, Claudia Sheinbaum, De-privatize, Energy, Mexico

On October 30, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum made a very clear anti-neoliberal gesture in her morning press conference: the de-privatization of two emblematic Mexican energy companies. Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will now be fully controlled by the federal government. The government also signed a decree for the Mexican State to regain full rights over passenger railroads. This was achieved through a constitutional reform approved by Congress, in which MORENA has a majority. Although Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Sheinbaum’s predecessor) sent the proposal several weeks ago, the current president takes the most important credit for having concluded the process.

Big Oil Rallies To Obstruct Accountability

July 20, 2024 Emily Sanders, DeSmog. Resist! Big Oil, BP, Chevron, climate crisis, Energy, Environment, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Oil and Gas, Politics and Policy, Science Denial, shell

In the face of mounting scrutiny from local, state, and federal officials, fossil fuel companies and their allies are deploying a range of tactics to obstruct ongoing lawsuits and investigations concerning evidence that the industry has misled the public about the harms it knew its products would cause to the climate, environment, and human health. Far-right industry allies with ties to Chevron have mounted an “unprecedented” pressure campaign calling on the Supreme Court to stop a potentially historic climate deception lawsuit against oil majors from going to trial. Republican attorneys general are separately urging the Supreme Court to throw out similar climate fraud lawsuits from five states.

Big Oil Is Pulling Out All The Stops To Block Lawsuits For Accountability

July 15, 2024 Emily Sanders, Truthout. Educate! Big Oil, Exxon, First Amendment, Fossil Fuels, Legal System

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