Meet the 2024 climate criminals
Our team has identified the following 24 individuals as the top climate criminals of 2024. Check out their profiles to learn about their crimes against the Earth, how they’ve profited off their crimes, and their connections within the polluter industrial complex.
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The “chief architect” of the United State’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement is now writing model policies for restructuring the EPA under a conservative administration.
Since the Paris Agreement, Bank of America under Brian Moynihan’s leadership has funneled $333,158,860,000 to the fossil fuel industry.
From quid pro quo campaign financing to suing activist investors to displacing blame onto his customers, Darren Woods’s climate crimes go far beyond ExxonMobil’s high carbon emissions.
State Farm has stopped issuing new insurance policies in California due to “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure,” but it has also invested “more money in oil and gas ventures than any other insurance provider in the United States.”
Since the Paris Agreement, JPMorgan Chase has funneled $434,000,000,000 to the fossil fuel industry under the leadership of Jamie Dimon.
In 2023 alone, Citigroup gave $4.3 billion in loans for new oil and gas infrastructure, and the bank has given $60 billion to other methane-polluting gas projects since 2021.
While publicly making emission reduction goals, Edelman PR continues receiving Koch funding and working with fossil fuel clients like Shell.
DonorsTrust, the “dark money ATM of the conservative movement,” has bankrolled the climate change denial movement.
As the Lead Director of ExxonMobil and a Director of Liberty Mutual, the former State Street CEO is a double agent between the insurance industry and Big Oil.
The new Mountain Valley Pipeline will emit almost 90 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution annually – about the same as 24 coal plants or 19 million cars.
From spearheading the Dakota Access Pipeline to attempting to silence protestors with SLAPP suits, Kelcy Warren’s climate crimes are manifold.
Harold Hamm organizes billionaires in oil, gas, and coal sectors to capture our political system and buy off candidates in exchange for the rollback of anti-pollution measures.
AFPM represents 98% of oil refineries in the US and actively opposes climate legislation.
The Heritage Foundation is the organization spearheading Project 2025 and is one of the most influential climate-denying think tanks in the US.
Will Hild leads Consumers’ Research as the organization uses dark money from DonorsTrust to fund its attacks on ESG and “woke corporate culture.”
The American Petroleum Institute is the largest trade association defending and advocating for the oil and gas industry, spending millions of dollars annually to influence politicians to protect the interests of Big Oil.
Peabody Energy is a coal company with a long history of funding climate denial, lobbying against national climate policies, and emphasizing carbon capture technology instead of regulation.
Mike Wirth has led Chevron as it has committed climate crimes from the Ecuadorian Amazon to the Bay Area.
ConocoPhillips is spearheading the Willow Project, a massive oil project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.
America’s Power is the primary trade association of coal operators and related industries, advocating for their interests and lobbying against climate action.
Bernard McNamee wrote the chapter of Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” on the Department of Energy, outlining policies that would massively expand gas infrastructure and eliminate offices essential to the energy transition.
Darren WoodS
CEO of ExxonMobil
Thomas Karam
Executive Chairman of Equitrans
Ryan Lance
CEO of ConocoPhillips
Jamie Dimon
CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Jane Fraser
CEO of Citigroup
Chet Thompson
President of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
Brian Hooks
President of the Charles Koch Foundation & Stand Together Trust
Richard Edelman
CEO of Edelman
Lawson Bader
CEO of DonorsTrust
Ted Boutrous
Partner at Gibson Dunn
Michael Tipsord
Chairman of State Farm
Joseph “Jay” Hooley
Director at ExxonMobil & Liberty Mutual
Harold Hamm
Executive Chairman of Continental Resources & DEPA
Bernard Mcnamee
Author of Project 2025’s Dept. of Energy Chapter
James M. taylor
President of the Heartland Institute
Mike Wirth
CEO of Chevron
Brian Moynihan
CEO of Bank of America
Kelcy Warren
Chairman of Energy Transfer
Mike Sommers
President of the American Petroleum Institute
Kevin Roberts
President of the Heritage Foundation
Will hild
Executive Director of Consumers’ Research
Mandy Gunasekara
Author of Project 2025’s EPA Chapter
Fossil fuels’ favorite lawyer defends Big Oil’s climate crimes and spins the First Amendment to excuse climate misinformation.
The Heartland Institute is one of the most infamous free-market think tanks publishing climate misinformation and trying to discredit accepted climate science.
Michelle Bloodworth
President & CEO of America’s Power
Deeply connected to the Koch network, Brian Hooks also leads the Stand Together Trust and millions of dollars to right-wing think tanks that deny climate change and lobby against climate action.
JIM GRECH
CEO of Peabody Energy
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