{"id":2983,"date":"2025-07-07T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:18:20","slug":"report-decades-of-deceit-puts-fossil-fuel-companies-in-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/report-decades-of-deceit-puts-fossil-fuel-companies-in-the-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: &#8216;Decades of Deceit&#8217; Puts Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the federal government backslides on climate action and panders to fossil fuel interests, dozens of states, counties, cities and tribes are suing those same interests for fraud, climate damages and racketeering. Here\u2019s a look at the overwhelming evidence behind those lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decades of Deceit: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucs.org\/resources\/decades-deceit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ucs.org\/resources\/decades-deceit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780063220850\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the federal government backslides on climate action and panders to fossil fuel interests, dozens of states, counties, cities and tribes are suing those same interests for fraud, climate damages and racketeering. Here\u2019s a look at the overwhelming evidence behind those lawsuits. Decades of Deceit: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/report-decades-of-deceit-puts-fossil-fuel-companies-in-the-hot-seat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;REPORT: &#8216;Decades of Deceit&#8217; Puts Fossil Fuel Companies in the Hot Seat&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,55,41,40,60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-health","category-news","category-politics","category-science-technology","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}