Trina Solar
A solar company that sells panels while facing forced labour findings, tariff circumvention rulings, and a US military-linked designation.
Climate change
Physics that became politics, on a schedule nobody set.
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Anglo American plc
A century-old mining giant that cut 138,000 jobs in two years while rebranding as a green critical-minerals champion — with no evidence its new identity changes who pays or who bears the cost.
ExxonMobil
Rockefeller Standard Oil · 1882
ExxonMobil is the largest U.S.-based oil and gas company. It was formed in 1999 by merging Exxon and Mobil. It is vertically integrated across oil and gas and its chemicals division. It produces about 3% of the world’s oil and 2% of global energy. In 2024, it emitted 610 Mt of CO2 — 1.58% of global emissions. It has faced widespread criticism and litigation over environmental incidents, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and for decades of climate change denial despite internal scientific accuracy.
Rosneft
Rosneft is not an energy company — it is a state-owned hydrocarbon extraction platform with climate costs baked into its balance sheet.
China National Petroleum Corporation
CNPC is not a company—it’s a sovereign hydrocarbon apparatus with no P&L, no shareholders, and 655 Mt of CO₂ in its name.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
ADNOC is expanding oil production while the rest of the industry retreats — not because it ignores climate change, but because it answers to no one but Abu Dhabi.
ConocoPhillips
A vertically stripped hydrocarbon extractor — upstream only, emissions-heavy, legally separated from its own downstream past.
DTE Energy
A coal-dependent utility masquerading as a diversified energy company — its non-utility projects are real, but their economics are invisible.
Equinor
A state-owned petroleum giant that calls itself ‘Equinor’ still emits more than most nations — and answers to Oslo, not shareholders.
NextEra Energy
The world’s largest renewable generator still gets more than a third of its power from fossil fuels—and that’s the point.
Origin Energy
A coal-powered retailer that calls itself 'energy' while minimising renewables to please shareholders.
Xcel Energy
A regulated utility doesn’t innovate — it adapts under compulsion, and Xcel Energy proves it.
Beyond Meat
Ethan Brown · 2009
Beyond Meat is a plant-based meat alternative producer founded in 2009 by Ethan Brown to mitigate climate change. It licensed meatless protein technology from University of Missouri professors, launched its first product in 2012, its signature Beyond Burger in 2016, and became the first publicly traded company in its category in 2019. It announced layoffs of 19% of staff in October 2022 due to revenue declines and additional layoffs in November 2023 after a 9% sales decline.