Exxon knew about climate change decades ago. But instead of warning the public, they deceived lawmakers, misled their shareholders, and robbed humanity of a generation’s worth of time to reverse climate change.

In 2015, investigative journalists uncovered that ExxonMobil had known that burning fossil fuels would lead to potentially catastrophic climate impacts as early as the late 1970s. Subsequent reporting showed that the company, and its oil and gas industry peers, likely knew about these impacts as early as the 1950s.

This January, Harvard researchers published a new report that showed that not only did Exxon know about climate change, they were predicting the exact amount of global warming we’re now experiencing with remarkable accuracy.

Exxon knew exactly the damage it was causing, but it covered up the truth in order to protect its massive profits.

That deception continues today. Exxon and their Big Oil buddies spend billions of dollars on advertising and public relations campaigns designed to make us think they care about the climate crisis even as they continue to make it worse.

It’s time to make polluters pay for the damage they’ve done. Take action with us and demand that the US Department of Justice and State Attorneys General investigate Big Oil and make polluters pay!