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Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy

The suit comes as the industry and its political allies escalate efforts to shut down liability laws and lawsuits. Republicans in Congress are currently crafting legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from climate liability.

By Dana Drugmand

 The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery is seen on Jan. 13 in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images
An aerial shot shows billowing white emissions from stacks in the large complex.

Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies

By Dana Drugmand
A view of Chevron’s El Segundo refinery in California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds

By Dana Drugmand
A jogger makes their way across a snowy street after a winter storm hit Seattle on Feb. 13, 2021. Credit: David Ryder/Getty Images

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates

By Dana Drugmand
A man wades through floodwater on Oct. 18, 2022, in Johi, Pakistan. Nearly one-third of Pakistan was deeply affected by flooding which hit the country in 2022. Credit: Getty Images

Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors

By Dana Drugmand
The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pa., produces polyethylene, a type of single-use plastic, using ethane. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant

By Kiley Bense
A possible merger of Shell and BP would be on a scale comparable with the mega-merger between Exxon and Mobil. Credit: Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Analysts Expect More Oil and Gas Mergers. What Could That Mean for the Climate?

By Deep Vakil
In Vancouver, Washington, Everett Clayton looks at a digital thermometer on a nearby building that reads 116 degrees while walking to his apartment on June 27, 2021. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

The Estate of a Woman Who Died in the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome Sues Big Oil for Wrongful Death

By Dana Drugmand
An aerial view of oil storage containers at Chevron’s Pasadena refinery in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

How the World’s Most Powerful Corporations Have Fought Accountability for Climate Change

By Katie Surma
An aerial view of the Shell refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Credit: Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Dutch Environmental Group Launches New Climate Case Against Shell to Stop All Investment in New Oil and Gas Fields

By Dana Drugmand
Shell said April 25 that it would start using its “elevated flare this afternoon” at its Pennsylvania plastics plant and expected the work to continue through the weekend. This image was taken during that period. Credit: Hilary Starcher-O’Toole

Nighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’

By Kiley Bense
A still from “Single-Use Planet” shows the plastic pollution invading the tropical waters of Bali, Indonesia.

From Louisiana to Pennsylvania, Tracing Plastics Pollution Back to Its Source

By Kiley Bense
A view of the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pa. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0

New Data Shows Giant Petrochemical Plant Has Failed to Boost Local Economy

By Jon Hurdle
Emma Ireland and Charles Philip Laurie from Just Stop Oil pose with their supporters outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London before their hearing on Oct. 22. Credit: Keerti Gopal/Inside Climate News

Shell Wins Injunctions Against UK Gas Station Protesters Amid Growing Threats to Activism

By Keerti Gopal
People and their pets rest at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland as the city is hit with extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome on June 28, 2021. Credit: Kathryn Elsesser/AFP via Getty Images

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin
The Shell cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania will produce more than a million tons of plastic along the Ohio River. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?

By Kiley Bense
The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County was fined $10 million for air quality violations in May 2023. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

By Kiley Price
The Shell plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania takes ethane and heats it to extremely high temperatures, “cracking” the molecular bonds holding it together to form ethylene and polyethylene pellets called nurdles. Credit: Mark Dixon/CC BY 2.0 Deed

A Plastics Plant Promised Pennsylvania Prosperity, but to Some Residents It’s Become a ‘Shockingly Bad’ Neighbor

By Kiley Bense
Jack Bonner and Dakotah Pinkus, technicians for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, transfer trout fry that will be dropped into a lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains during an assisted migration in 2022. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout were transferred to a watershed cooler than its’ typical range to account for climate change. Credit: Luna Anna Archey/High Country News

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Is Still a Bipartisan Unicorn

By Erin X. Wong, High Country News

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