EarthRights International identified 152 cases in the past 10 years where the fossil fuel industry has used strategic lawsuits against public participation and other judicial harassment tactics in attempts to silence or punish its critics in the US.Being a climate activist is a noble calling. It’s a way of putting pressure on national and business leaders to accept responsibility to safeguard a livable future.
Time and time again, a climate activist has spoken up and tried to make transparent the devastation that Big Oil has wrought, only to be slammed down by authorities. First it was arrests for protests. Now attempts to silence those who speak out against Big Polluters have taken another turn.
,” is the first to quantify the lengths fossil fuel companies go to within the judicial system to silence their critics. Here are some samples.Numerous groups and people who demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline