ExxonKnews: How Fossil Fuel Corporations Are Trying to Sue Their Critics Into Silence

The fossil fuel industry’s “lawfare” tactics are part of an overarching strategy to redefine free speech and escape accountability. A new bill aims to stop them.

ExxonKnews

October 7, 2022

This week, ExxonKnews digs deeper into one of the fossil fuel industry's nefarious strategies to silence and intimidate its critics — and how officials and activists are pushing back. This is a special collaboration with DeSmog, one of the leading outlets working to expose misinformation from fossil fuel interests.

In 2018, Krystal Two Bulls received notice that she was being sued for criminal conspiracy.

Two Bulls, who is Oglala Lakota and North Cheyenne, has been organizing for environmental justice for much of her life. She was raised on the North Cheyenne Indian Reservation of Lame Deer, Montana, part of a community that had resisted coal developments for nearly 40 years. In 2016, she helped defeat Arch Coal’s plans to build a massive strip mining operation on the reservation’s border. The project would’ve been one of the largest coal mines in the United States. 

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