Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2022-2023

Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. In a November 2022 report for Common Dreams, Kenny Stancil described the case as a “first of its kind” racketeering lawsuit…
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As reported by the Innocence Project, Reuters, and Essence, a September 2022 National Registry of Exonerations study found that Black people are seven times more likely than White people to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual crimes, and drug crimes. The NRE study analyzed 3,200 exonerations for the above crimes,…

Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading disinformation about climate change for decades, Grist and the Atlantic reported in September 2022, citing a report published earlier that month in Environmental Research Letters. According to this report, electric utility companies, research groups, and trade associations (including the Edison Electric Institute and…

The Intercept’s Mara Hvistendahl uncovered hundreds of undisclosed accidents at biolabs in the United States. Her November 1, 2022, article spotlighted the case of a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, who contracted the debilitating Chikungunya virus, which is responsible for epidemics in both…
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Fossil fuel companies have been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects, according to reports published in March 2023 by the Guardian and The Nation, based on a study produced by Data for Progress, a progressive think tank. Fossil fuel funding, The Nation reported,…
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Many coastal areas in the Pacific Northwest lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, disproportionately impacting the region’s Indigenous communities. The Biden administration has already paid $25 million apiece to three Native American villages in Alaska and Washington to move away…
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Corporate profits rose to an “all-time high” in 2022, producing an explosion in income for the very wealthy, Jake Johnson reported for Common Dreams in a series of 2022 articles. In August 2022, Johnson explained that non-financial corporate profits in the second quarter of 2022 hit two trillion dollars, an…
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Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1,733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days across ten years. This figure from the Global Witness study, Decade of Defiance, is “almost certainly an underestimate” because “conflict, restrictions on a…
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Two epidemiological studies, from 2021 and 2022, provide new evidence that living near oil and gas extraction sites is hazardous to human health, especially for pregnant mothers and children, as reported by Nick Cunningham for DeSmog and Tom Perkins for the Guardian. Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) measured the…

Big oil companies and their investors are suing governments to thwart climate change policies, Rishika Pardikar reported for The Lever in June 2022. These fossil fuel stakeholders claim that laws designed to address climate change are undermining their profits—and, therefore, that they must be compensated for any resulting financial losses.…