Climate-change activists have filed a criminal complaint against the top managers of TotalEnergies, accusing them of contributing to climate turmoil. This legal action is part of a broader trend of increased legal pressure on oil and gas majors, including Total. Concurrently, U.S. lawmakers, including Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, have called on the Justice Department to investigate Big Oil for a decades-long disinformation campaign to obstruct climate action. Internal documents obtained during the investigation indicate that fossil fuel companies have known for over 60 years that burning fossil fuels causes climate change. House and Senate Democrats, including E&C Democrats, have referred the findings of their probes into alleged climate disinformation by the oil industry to the Justice Department. Additionally, there are concerns that oil companies may be colluding to drive up gas prices, prompting further investigations by Congressional Democrats, including Frank Pallone. Top Congressional Democrats are also urging Joe Biden’s Justice Department to hold Big Oil accountable.
Our expansive @OversightDems and @SenateBudget investigation revealed that Big Oil has been pushing climate disinformation since at least the 1960s. We urge the Department of Justice to investigate this shocking and lawless betrayal of our people. https://t.co/vwya5QCqR3
US lawmakers urge Justice Department to probe climate deception by Big Oil #oott https://t.co/yBcutTz2hN
US lawmakers urge Justice Department to probe climate deception by Big Oil https://t.co/VqzhaFrCGE https://t.co/jHVZ6xPWLy
Today, RM @RepRaskin and @SenWhitehouse called on @TheJusticeDept to investigate Big Oil for its decades-long disinformation campaign to mislead the public about the climate effects of fossil fuels and obstruct climate action. https://t.co/cZb3xDFVE3
House and Senate Democrats are referring the results of their probes into alleged climate disinformation by the oil industry to the Justice Department. https://t.co/pEjKRS63jf
HUGE: @SenWhitehouse & @RepRaskin just formally referred the findings of their investigation into Big Oil's climate lies to DOJ. The lawmakers found "a continuing pattern of the fossil fuel industry knowingly and deliberately misleading the public through an ongoing enterprise." https://t.co/C4rqteHCdO
Americans should not be forced to bear the brunt of corporate greed at the gas pump. If oil companies are colluding to keep gas prices artificially high, Committee Democrats are determined to hold them accountable. https://t.co/4GkSyicAjf
Top Congressional Democrats are calling on Joe Biden’s justice department to investigate Big Oil. Big Oil spent decades sowing doubt about the climate crisis. They've put millions of lives in danger. We must hold them accountable. https://t.co/i9IravoFHh
.@RepRaskin: "Internal documents obtained in our investigation demonstrate that fossil fuel companies do not dispute ... that they have known for more than 60 years that burning fossil fuels causes climate change." New from me: https://t.co/4GemCTLhJT https://t.co/0pvjMfuoGT
.@RepRaskin: "Internal documents obtained in our investigation demonstrate that fossil fuel companies do not dispute ... that they have known for more than 60 years that burning fossil fuels causes climate change." more from me on this shortly: https://t.co/0pvjMfuoGT
LIVE: @SenWhitehouse and @RepRaskin host a press conference to announce next steps in their investigation into Big Oil’s decades-long disinformation campaign to obstruct climate action. https://t.co/RCeVwwb0g5
Some in Congress launching a probe into whether US oil companies colluded with each other and/or OPEC to drive up gas prices. This is one day after the gas reserve was announced to be sold off (per legal requirement). Gas prices terrify politicians ahead of elections. Of…
𝐀𝐓 𝟏𝟐:𝟑𝟎: @SenWhitehouse and @RepRaskin host a press conference to announce next steps in their investigation into Big Oil’s decades-long disinformation campaign to obstruct climate action. https://t.co/RCeVwwb0g5
NEW: E&C Democrats have launched an investigation into concerns that oil companies may be colluding to drive up gas prices for their own profit. If that’s the case, says @FrankPallone, “Congress and the American people deserve to know.”
TotalEnergies Hit by Criminal Complaint Over Climate Turmoil Climate-change activists target energy firm’s top managers oil and gas majors coming under increased legal pressure #oott https://t.co/WcuQg7kMM7
Climate victims file criminal case against bosses of oil firm Total https://t.co/6JCy1VCe0p