Make Polluters Pay

Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It.

Trump asked oil execs for $1 billion.

He got $445 million.

His billion dollar tax breaks gives the oil industry everything it wants. #MakePollutersPay

Op-Ed: NJ must follow its neighbor, make polluters pay | NJ Spotlight News New York passed a Climate Superfund Act to hold corporate polluters accountable for billions in climate damage. New Jersey must do the same.

This is not radical:

If you break, you pay for it.

Taxpayers should not be on the hook for the price of climate change; instead, #makepolluterspay

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🗣️ Last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a special address that made one thing very clear - clean energy is transforming the world and is unstoppable. 👇 All we need now, is an unstoppable movement to keep powering us into a solar-powered future. 🧵 Here's what he had to say:

Extreme heat dome puts 170 million Americans in danger for hot, humid temperatures Around 170 million Americans from Nebraska to the Northeast are experiencing extremely warm temperatures due to an ongoing heat wave.

We should call it the Big Oil heat dome.

Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’

Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’
Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’

Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’

Protesters attribute fatalities in Texas not to a natural disaster but a “preventable and politically charged crisis” stemming from government defunding of critical agencies.

Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’

"I won’t get flood warnings in time to save my family because our government defunded our National Weather Service and NOAA. This is insanity. This is so dangerous. This is not leadership. It’s a combination of cowardice and corruption.”

27 children at summer camp died in catastrophic flooding in Texas.

This is every parent's nightmare.

We won't stand by while our leaders support the fossil fuel industry responsible for climate disasters.

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/texas...

Contributor: When an unnatural heat wave kills, has Big Oil committed murder? A wrongful-death lawsuit in Seattle may provide a template for homicide charges against the fossil fuel industry.

According to former federal prosecutor Cindy Cho, when people die in climate-related disasters like extreme heat death, #BigOil could be held liable.

This is BIG news for the fight to #MakePollutersPay.

Extreme Heat. Brought to You by Big Oil. Extreme heat is killing Americans. Big Oil knew it would. They should pay for the damage.

Extreme heat is killing Americans.

Big Oil knew it would.

They should pay for the damage.

thanks for reading. and it makes us furious too!

This makes me furious. From fossilfreememo.substack.com/p/the-foreca...

Thanks to @polluterspay.bsky.social for bringing this to light.

The Forecast Was Clear. The Cuts Were Deadly. At least 95 people are dead after flash floods ripped through Kerr County, Texas over the Fourth of July weekend.

"This was a preventable tragedy. Not because we can control the rain, but because we could have had stronger systems in place...politicians like Ted Cruz & Donald Trump chose to defund those systems. They chose to take money out of public protection and shovel it into the pockets of oil executives."

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System

Instead of tax cuts for billionaires, everyday Texans and working people across the country should have systems in place to help them weather these extreme disasters safely.

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.

🚨BREAKING: 8 out of 10 surveyed around the world think that polluters - not the people - should pay for climate damages.
That’s an OVERWHELMING majority saying - it’s time to make polluters pay.

Sign the Polluters Pay Pact today 👇
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Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action With climate policies under siege by the Trump, young climate activists are intensifying their campaign

“When we organize, we can rewrite the rules and build something more fair, more honest and more prepared for the future we deserve" 💜

Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social is a collaboration with @emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED newsletter — all about the fossil fuel billionaire assholes funding groups on the right pushing anti-trans rhetoric

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Let's go, California 👏

Environmentalists rally for the Climate Superfund Act | Video | NJ Spotlight News Matt Smith, state director of the Food & Water Watch, is interviewed about the proposed Climate Superfund Act in New Jersey.

“The largest emitters of carbon pollution, companies like Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron are raking in record breaking profits, while the average NJ resident is forced to pay for these increasing climate costs which they simply cannot afford.” - Matt Smith, our NJ State Director #MakePollutersPay

Stand Up For Climate: Say NO to Dirty Bill Join us on June 9th, 2025 at 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET for a movement wide call to rally against the dirty budget bill in Congress. The budget bill recently passed by House Republicans is the worst atta...

They’re calling it the "Big Beautiful Bill."

We’re calling it what it really is: the Big Ugly Bill, because it’s one of the most dangerous, climate-wrecking proposals ever to come out of Congress.

Stand up for climate & join our movement call on Monday 💻

We are coming together on Monday, June 9th with climate leaders like Jay Inslee, @leahstokes.bsky.social , @billmckibben.bsky.social, and others to get fired up to stop the worst environmental bill in US history.🚨
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Join us ⤵️
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Exposing President Trump's 'Oily' Billionaire Friends President Trump is surrounding himself with fracking CEOs, oil magnates, and pipeline moguls who’ve spent millions backing his campaigns. And now they’re writing the playbook in his second term.

The Make Polluters Pay campaign is exposing Trump’s oily inner circle, and calling out the billionaires who want to profit while the planet burns.

Learn who they are:

An Effort to Kill Off Lawsuits Against Oil Giants Is Gaining Steam The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it.

Our campaign is gaining steam too 💅 #MakePollutersPay

Digital illustration of Big Oil squeezing the earth for money. Text reads, “They knew they lied.”

Big Oil KNEW they lied. Their greed is driving the climate crisis, yet taxpayers are the ones paying for the damages caused by extreme weather. Enough is ENOUGH.

We all deserve to live and raise our families in safe & healthy communities.

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Trump is illegally trying to overturn state climate laws New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act holds the largest, most profitable global fossil fuel companies accountable for the damage their products have caused, while President Trump’s ex…

ICYMI: Trump’s action is a political stunt, not a legal reversal. Climate Superfund laws stand on strong constitutional ground.

“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

⚖️ "Climate researchers say they have come up with a method to link individual fossil fuel producers with specific climate harms in a way that would allow courts to quantify the economic loss.[...] the paper is significant for showing that accountability is possible." Time to #makepolluterspay

Big Oil Spends Over $9 Million in CA in 3 Mos. to Fight Climate Superfund Act, Other Bills Sacramento, CA. — The unprecedented lobbying spending spree by Big Oil that took place in 2023 and 2024 has continued into 2025 as the oil industry spends millions to stop the Polluters Pay Superfund ...

It doesn't matter how much Big Oil spends to fight California's Climate Superfund Act. We are done letting the industry dodge responsibility. #MakePollutersPay

People of faith & conscience gathered for an #interfaith rally on Sunday to hear stories from clergy & community members impacted by the #EatonWildfire 🏚️💔

#Faiths4Climate #MakePollutersPay #ClimateAction

Five people standing inside the Capitol building after a lobbying meeting to discuss environmental justice priorities. Two are wearing blue CEJA Action t-shirts. Behind them are a US and California flag, and framed photos hang from the wall.

Thank you to the office of @asmtasha.bsky.social for meeting with us and @cavsbigoil.bsky.social during #CEJASpringLobbyDay and standing with frontline communities!

We hope you’ll support #SB684 & #AB1243 and show the climate leadership CA needs. Let’s #MakePollutersPay and protect our future 💚

San Diegans marched Downtown demanding climate action, accountability from fossil fuel companies More than 1,000 people marched through Downtown Saturday calling for climate action at local and federal levels.

Californians are showing up for the #MakePollutersPay Climate Superfund Act 🔥