Yale, Stanford and MIT's fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say

Novel legal strategy argues that top schools including Princeton and Vanderbilt are legally obliged to put the public interest first.

Oil companies' delaying tactics are the new climate science denialism

Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry's climate-friendly PR messages are 'discourses of delay' aimed at diverting attention away from the crisis.

How a powerful US lobby group helps Big Oil to block climate action

Fossil fuel companies continue to donate large sums to the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies to block or weaken legislation.

Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price

Covering Climate Now: After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America's petroleum giants face a reckoning — an unprecedented wave of lawsuits — for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes.