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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 25, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri"><i>[ lawsuits about
the misinformation agents ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Oregon County Sues Fossil Fuel Entities and
Enablers for Contributing to Deadly 2021 Heatwave</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The climate lawsuit filed by Multnomah County
is the first to name consulting firm McKinsey & Company as a
defendant.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Dana Drugmandon Jun 22, 2023 </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Major fossil fuel entities and trade
associations including Koch Industries, the American Petroleum
Institute, and the Western States Petroleum Association, as well
as consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company, were slapped with
the latest climate liability lawsuit today with the filing of a
complaint in the Oregon Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The northwestern Oregon county is the state’s
most populous and includes the city of Portland. In this new
lawsuit, it seeks to hold fossil fuel companies and their
“misinformation agents” accountable for the unprecedented 2021
heat dome that saw temperatures in the county reach 116º
Fahrenheit. Climate scientists and researchers in attribution
science have determined that this extreme heat event would have
been “virtually impossible” without anthropogenic climate change,
which is driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“Multnomah County is utilizing irrefutable
climate science to hold corporate polluters accountable for their
role in causing a discreet and disastrous event, as well as recent
wildfires,” attorney Roger Worthington — a partner at Worthington
& Caron, one of the firms representing the county — stated in
a press release.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“This lawsuit is about accountability and
fairness, and I believe the people of Multnomah County deserve
both. These businesses knew their products were unsafe and
harmful, and they lied about it,” added Jessica Vega Pederson,
chair of the Multnomah County Board of County Commissioners, in
the press release.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Named defendants in Multnomah County’s lawsuit
include ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Motiva,
Occidental Petroleum, Anadarko Petroleum, Space Age Fuel, Valero
Energy, Total Specialties USA, Marathon Petroleum, Peabody Energy,
Koch Industries, American Petroleum Institute, Western States
Petroleum Association, and McKinsey & Company. DeSmog reached
out to the American Petroleum Institute, Western States Petroleum
Association, McKinsey & Company, ExxonMobil, and Chevron for
comment.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“Suits like these continue to waste time,
resources and do nothing to address climate change. This action
has no impact on our intention to invest billions of dollars to
leading the way in a thoughtful energy transition that takes the
world to net zero carbon emissions,” an ExxonMobil spokesperson
said via email.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">It is the first time that McKinsey &
Company has been named as a defendant in a climate accountability
lawsuit. It is also the first climate case to name the WSPA as a
defendant; other climate cases filed by California communities
have invoked the Big Oil trade association — which spent more than
any other group lobbying in California last year — as a relevant
non-party.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">McKinsey & Company has a sordid history of
working with industries that have deliberately deceived the public
about the harms of their products, from Big Tobacco to opioid
manufacturers. The consulting firm has also served the fossil fuel
industry. As explained in the 2022 book When McKinsey Comes to
Town, since 2010, McKinsey has worked for at least 43 of the 100
largest corporate carbon polluters. These companies, “when
accounting for the customers who use their products, were
responsible for more than 36 percent of the planet’s greenhouse
gas emissions from fossil fuels in 2018,” authors Walt Bogdanich
and Michael Forsythe write. Chevron, one of the defendants in the
new case, has been one of McKinsey’s biggest clients, generating
at least $50 million in consulting fees in 2019.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The targeting of a consulting firm working for
fossil fuel clients may be just the beginning of efforts to hold
those enabling the industry accountable through litigation,
according to Ben Franta, senior research fellow and head of the
Climate Litigation Lab at Oxford University.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“Fossil fuel majors have collaborated with ad
agencies, public relations firms, and others over the decades to
create misleading public communications campaigns,” he told
DeSmog. “Much as the consulting firm McKinsey has faced liability
in the context of opioid litigation, third parties beyond fossil
fuel producers might conceivably face liability in the context of
climate litigation.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The lawsuit filed by Multnomah County brings
charges of public nuisance, negligence, and fraud. It seeks $50
million in actual damages and $1.5 billion in future damages.
Additionally, the county seeks $50 billion in costs for an
abatement model to study, plan, and upgrade public healthcare
services and infrastructure to safeguard against future extreme
heat events...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Montana-based climate scientist Steven Running
said during a youth climate trial last week in Helena, Montana,
that this extreme heat dome is an “example of the sort of thing
that may happen in the future [under climate destabilization]. As
long as fossil fuel emissions continue, “the Earth will keep
trapping this additional heat and then periodically we will end up
with surprises like this,” he testified...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/22/oregon-county-sues-fossil-fuel-entities-and-enablers-for-contributing-to-deadly-2021-heatwave/">https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/22/oregon-county-sues-fossil-fuel-entities-and-enablers-for-contributing-to-deadly-2021-heatwave/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ legacy of opinion manipulation and serious
persuasion ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>New analysis: More than $183 million spent
on climate & energy Facebook ads in 5 years</b><br>
A roundup of the climate conversation across social media this
week<br>
JUN 22, 2023<br>
Welcome to Climate Monitor, a weekly, data-driven report on the
digital strategies polluters and pro-Climate groups are using to
shift public opinion and move legislation. Here’s what we found: <br>
<br>
Toplines:<br>
Over the past 5 years, the top 100 highest spending climate and
energy advertisers on Facebook have dropped a cumulative $183
million on ads. The top spender? Exxon Mobil, which has spent over
$23 million on the platform since 2018<br>
<br>
Shell ramped up its digital advertising last week, promoting its
work to support EV chargers and “renewable energy”<br>
<br>
The Biden admin shared several climate-related posts on Facebook
last week that earned decent engagement on the platform<br>
<br>
NRDC Action is targeting Pennsylvanians with a new YouTube ad
campaign in support of Gov. Josh Shapiro and the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative...<br>
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</font><b>Exxon and API Spent Over $33 Million On Instagram And
Facebook Ads In Past 5 Years</b><br>
This week's Climate Monitor has some rather big numbers on climate
disinfo advertising: "The highest-spending advertiser across the
climate and energy sector continues to be fossil fuel giant Exxon
Mobil, which has spent over $23.1 million since June 2018 on
Facebook and Instagram ads." <br>
<br>
Climate Monitor has put together a list of the top 100 advertisers
on Meta’s platforms, and right behind Exxon Mobil is the American
Petroleum Institute, with over $11 million spent on Facebook and
Instagram advertising between June 2018 and June 15, 2023. In third
place is the California Public Utilities Commission, with $9.76
million in ad expenditures.<br>
<br>
Overall, the organizations on the list, including environmental
groups, "have dropped a cumulative $183 million on ads," with plenty
of that money coming from green groups like the Sierra Club, the
Natural Resources Defense Council, and the League of Conservation
Voters (ranked 4th, 6th, and 7th, respectively, for their $7.6,
nearly $6.0, and $5.0 million budgets on Meta ads over the last five
years). <br>
<br>
Call us old fashioned, but wouldn't it be nice if green groups were
sending their ad dollars to local media to try to slow the
disinfo-friendly desertification of local news, instead of
subsidizing billionaire egomaniacs? <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20230623-mosquitoes-paris-finance-summit-scotus-navajo-nation-water">https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20230623-mosquitoes-paris-finance-summit-scotus-navajo-nation-water</a><br>
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<i>[ Looking for the obvious .]</i><br>
<b>New analysis: More than $183 million spent on climate &
energy Facebook ads in 5 years</b><br>
A roundup of the climate conversation across social media this week<br>
JUN 22, 2023<br>
Welcome to Climate Monitor, a weekly, data-driven report on the
digital strategies polluters and pro-Climate groups are using to
shift public opinion and move legislation. Here’s what we found: <br>
<blockquote>Over the past 5 years, the top 100 highest spending
climate and energy advertisers on Facebook have dropped a
cumulative $183 million on ads. The top spender? Exxon Mobil,
which has spent over $23 million on the platform since 2018<br>
<br>
Shell ramped up its digital advertising last week, promoting its
work to support EV chargers and “renewable energy”<br>
<br>
The Biden admin shared several climate-related posts on Facebook
last week that earned decent engagement on the platform<br>
<br>
NRDC Action is targeting Pennsylvanians with a new YouTube ad
campaign in support of Gov. Josh Shapiro and the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatemonitor.substack.com/p/new-analysis-more-than-183-million">https://climatemonitor.substack.com/p/new-analysis-more-than-183-million</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ New book on fire ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Fire Weather: A True Story from a
Hotter World</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">John Vaillant (Author)<br>
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic
exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and
humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger
and The Golden Spruce<br>
"Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page...Captures the
majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters." --David
Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's
oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun
by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles,
turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000
people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of
this apocalyptic conflagration--the wildfire equivalent of
Hurricane Katrina--John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique
event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a
hotter, more flammable world.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Fire has been a partner in our evolution for
hundreds of millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, very
likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend
and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic
economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to
elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate
change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in
previously unimaginable ways.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">With masterly prose and a cinematic eye,
Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined
histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate
science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest
fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. John
Vaillant's urgent work is a book for--and from--our new century of
fire, which has only just begun.<br>
Price $32.50 $30.23<br>
<br>
Reviews<br>
"Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page. John Vaillant
is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world, and
here he captures the majesty and horror of one of its great
disasters--and what made it tragically possible."<br>
--David Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable
Earth<br>
<br>
"In John Vaillant's vivid anatomy of the apocalyptic Fort McMurray
inferno, the histories of humankind's ever-accelerating
consumption of fossil fuel, and of our ever-increasing
vulnerability to extreme wildfire, converge with the
relentlessness of fate -- and the urgency of prophecy."<br>
--Philip Gourevitch, bestselling author of We Wish to Inform You
That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families<br>
<br>
"A compulsively readable journey into our fiery times. At the
center, Vaillant gives us fire itself as a character--fast,
hungry, and evolving to shape the warming decades to come. You
might never hear an engine or watch a bonfire the same way again."<br>
--Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast<br>
"The Fort McMurray fire was a vortex of people, ideas,
institutions, forest, oil, city, and wind, the quirky and the
existential, all mutating under the wanton impress of the
Anthropocene Age. Fire Weather offers a compelling account of that
tragedy, and a reimagining of a pyric infection that threatens to
remake the planet."<br>
--Stephen Pyne, author of The Pyrocene<br>
"Fire Weather is a towering achievement: an immense work of
research, reflection and imagination that will, I believe, come to
be seen as a landmark in non-fiction reportage on the
Anthropocene, or what Vaillant here calls 'the Petrocene' -- that
epoch defined primarily by humanly enhanced combustion. Fire
Weather is extraordinary in terms of its scope and range; it also
sings and surprises at the level of the sentence. It grips like a
philosophical thriller, warns like a beacon, and shocks to the
core."<br>
--Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of Underland..</font><br>
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<font size="+2"><i><b>June 25, 2008</b></i></font> <br>
June 25, 2008: The New York Times reports: "The [George W. Bush]
White House in December refused to accept the Environmental
Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are
pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that
an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened,
senior E.P.A. officials said last week."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html</a> <br>
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