Putting Big Oil’s profits in perspective

The Q1 profits of the world’s four highest-polluting investor-owned companies could buy flood insurance for every home in Louisiana, among other things.

Activists from Greenpeace set up a mock-gas station price board showing the true climate cost of fossil fuels. Source: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

The climate crisis just keeps getting worse. And the business of causing it just keeps getting better.

Last week, the four highest-polluting investor-owned companies in the world—Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP…