Last week, in what must have been a slow news cycle, outlets – including The New York Times and E&E News – reported on a new activist “report” that essentially tallied up the number of climate lawsuits in the world, leaving out a few key details in the process. 

On Thursday, just weeks ahead of Climate Week NYC and the anniversary of California’s filing of its lawsuit, Oil Change International published an “in depth analysis on the escalating wave” of climate lawsuits against the oil and gas industry.  

Glaringly missing from the report and its key findings, however, is the fact that every lawsuit attempting to hold oil and gas companies liable for climate damages that has been heard on their merits has been dismissed.  

This makes more sense with the context that Oil Change International has received millions of dollars from the very foundations driving the lawsuits being counted in the report, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Oak Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Global Fund II and the New Venture Fund. 

To recap the string of climate litigation defeats to date, read the full post at EIDClimate.org. 

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