The Center for Climate Integrity empowers communities with the knowledge and tools they need to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their deception and the damage they’ve caused.
Big Oil has lied about its harmful products for decades, with catastrophic consequences. Now, communities nationwide are seeking accountability, and we're here to help.
Launched in 2017, our organization supports communities in their efforts to hold Big Oil accountable for decades of climate deception and the resulting harms.
Our team harnesses expertise in law, science, advocacy, research, and strategic communications to ensure that fossil fuel companies are held accountable.
Educating the public and policymakers about Big Oil’s role in the climate crisis and ways to make polluters pay.
Communicating the evidence against Big Oil and how communities can seek justice and accountability.
Providing resources, strategic guidance, and campaign support for communities organizing to hold fossil fuel polluters accountable.
For decades, major oil and gas companies knew their products could cause “catastrophic” climate damage but chose to protect their profits through ongoing campaigns of denial, deception, and disinformation.
Today, as communities pay the price for Big Oil’s climate lies—facing escalating costs from heatwaves, superstorms, wildfires, floods, and more —the financial burden often lands on taxpayers and disproportionately affects vulnerable residents.
The year the president of the American Petroleum Institute, the major oil and gas trade group, told members that burning fossil fuels “could cause marked changes in climate” and “there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequences of pollution, but time is running out.”
SourceThe total cost of 391 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion.
SourceThe number of U.S. states, territories, and local and tribal governments that are suing Big Oil companies to hold them accountable for their climate deception and the damages it has caused.
SourceCCI educates the public and policymakers about Big Oil’s role in the climate crisis, the costs of climate change, and pathways for justice and accountability. In courts, communities, and with elected officials, CCI champions a nationwide movement to expose the fossil fuel industry's deception and demand accountability.
Learn more about communities suing Big Oil to demand accountability.
Explore our archives to uncover evidence showing how Big Oil knew fossil fuels cause climate change — and lied about it.
Dive into CCI’s detailed studies that calculate the costs of climate change to communities across the United States.
Our team has decades of experience in climate change advocacy, climate science, communications, social science, the law, government and investigations.
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