About Center for Climate Integrity | Center for Climate Integrity

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.

Educate

Educating the public and policymakers about Big Oil’s role in the climate crisis and ways to make polluters pay.

Communicate

Communicating the evidence against Big Oil and how communities can seek justice and accountability.

Provide

Providing resources, strategic guidance, and campaign support for communities organizing to hold fossil fuel polluters accountable.

Why Make Polluters Pay?

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.

1965

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.”

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$2.755 trillion

The total cost of 391 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion.

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70+

The 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.

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How CCI’s work advances climate accountability

CCI 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.

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Educate

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Why Make Polluters Pay?

1965

$2.755 trillion

70+

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How CCI’s work advances climate accountability

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