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#MakePollutersPay

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Taxing oil and gas companies is not only an important way to...

💸 pay for climate damages,
🤏 reduce the fossil fuel industry’s power,
✊ and promote climate justice

... it can also help transition fossil fuel workers to jobs in greener, cleaner and less destructive energy production 👀

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · UK windfall tax can fund switch to green jobs for North Sea oil workers – reportBy Fiona Harvey

Private members bill launched to require fossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation.

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

Might be worth writing to your MP and asking them to support this one

The Guardian · MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producersBy Fiona Harvey

The desperation of Big Oil knows no bounds. 🫠

Witness the latest Frankenstein fusion of Big Oil corporate power and executive authority:

Trump’s administration is suing 4 states to BLOCK climate laws and lawsuits that are designed to protect people against harms of the fossil fuel industry

It’s time to #MakePollutersPay for the climate damage they’ve done. No wild moves by Trump can change that.

reuters.com/legal/trump-admini

Reporting by Austyn Gaffney, NY Times: “Attribution science...draws a link between specific activities from a company profiting from fossil fuels and specific harms to states and communities,” per a climate law fellow at Columbia Univ’s Sabin Center. “If you cause harm you should be responsible for cleaning it up, it’s as simple as that.”

Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/04/23/climate

Archived version (no paywall): archive.is/MJTnN

Damage to Barre, Vt., in the aftermath of catastrophic flooding in July 2023.
The New York Times · New Study Could Bolster Climate Laws to Make Polluters PayBy Austyn Gaffney