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Putting Big Oil’s profits in perspective

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.

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A woman in a yellow safety jacket adjusts numbers on a Shell gas station logo. The numbers read: 2022 profits, 32.2 billion pounds, payment for climate damages zero.
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…

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