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Landmark Court Decision on Climate Change by the Highest Human Rights Court in the Americas and the Caribbean

Oil Change International welcomes the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ historic court decision on States’ obligations regarding the climate emergency and human rights. This landmark legal interpretation reinforces what science, communities, and international law have long made clear: the climate crisis is a human rights issue.

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Oil Change International Reacts to House Passage of Republican Reconciliation Bill

Congress has betrayed the working people of this country.

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Oil Change International Calls Rich Countries “Incredibly Shortsighted”  as FfD4 Conference Ends in Seville

Amid a record heat wave and the worst-ever debt crisis, rich countries have blocked urgent reforms at the once-a-decade 4th Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in Seville, Spain. 

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Oil Change International Statement on UK Government Proscribing Palestine Action

We are witnessing an historic and dangerous escalation in the UK Government’s attack on the right to protest. Oil Change International urges the UK Government to stop their draconian efforts to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Peaceful protest is not terrorism, it is fundamental to democracy. 

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Oil Change International Reacts to Senate Passage of Republican Reconciliation Bill

The U.S. Senate just passed a reconciliation bill that eliminates environmental protections, takes a sledgehammer to the rapidly growing clean energy economy, and distributes major giveaways to Big Oil and other corporate polluters.

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UN Report Underscores Human Rights Crisis Tied to Fossil Fuels – Calls for Urgent, Just Transition

It is imperative that States heed the recommendations of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies (HRTBs) as part of a rights-based approach to climate governance and fossil fuels phaseout.

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Families Over Big Oil Campaign Launches to Expose Fossil Fuel Scam in Reconciliation Bill

As the Senate takes up the reconciliation bill, a new campaign called Families Over Big Oil is launching to expose how Republican leaders are slashing programs that support working families to bankroll billions in tax breaks for Big Oil. The campaign highlights Senate budget’s $18 billion in new oil and gas giveaways– and how families will pay the price.

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Global North countries retreat from responsibility at Bonn UN climate talks

“In Bonn, we witnessed the Global North retreating from climate leadership and its own obligations amid the still-lingering hangover of Baku’s finance failure."

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New Data Exposes Private Finance Failure to Meet Energy Transition Needs

Dominant finance approach drives 4-7 times less private investment in the Global South than promised

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Letter from 188 U.S. Environmental Groups Urges EU Commissioners to Reject Trump’s Pressure to Purchase U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)

Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure to increase the bloc’s reliance on LNG or other fossil fuel imports from the United States.