The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) is supposed to protect the
public from financial deception and corporate
misconduct. Instead, under Trump,
it's doing the bidding of fossil fuel billionaires by
allowing oil and gas companies to hide their greenhouse
gas emissions — shielding their role in the
climate crisis from public view.
This is blatant
corruption. For years, the SEC required major
corporations to disclose their environmental
impact, ensuring transparency for investors and
the public. But now, after just weeks in office, Trump's
SEC has caved to oil and gas executives —
including two of his biggest donors — by
suspending a rule that forced energy companies to report
their emissions.
Fossil fuel billionaires spent
millions to get Trump elected, and now they're reaping
the rewards. Along with Trump's new Energy Secretary,
Chris Wright, they've worked relentlessly to
dismantle accountability measures that expose their
industry's climate destruction. And now,
they've secured exactly what they paid for: a
government that protects polluters instead of
people.
This decision is not just
morally reprehensible — it's also financially reckless.
Climate change is one of the biggest economic
risks of our time, and even major financial
institutions support disclosure rules to assess
long-term threats. Worsening droughts, food
insecurity, wildfires, and extreme weather aren't
distant concerns — they're happening right now, and
intensifying with each passing year.
The SEC must
immediately reverse this corrupt decision and reinstate
mandatory greenhouse gas disclosures. Sign the petition
now!
