SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA (August 2, 2024)–Today, Chevron announced it made over $4 billion in profit in the second quarter of 2024, all while its home state of California is fighting the Park Fire, which just became the fourth largest wildfire in state history. In response Senior Climate Campaigner, Amy Moas, Ph.D., said: “Chevron’s profits have come at the expense of us all – and the record fire currently raging in California underscores the extreme reality that the fossil-fueled climate crisis has brought upon us.
“Overnight the Park Fire in Northern California became the fourth largest wildfire in state history, meaning all nine of the state’s largest wildfires on record have happened since 2017. This is not normal. These hotter, faster, and more intense blazes are being fueled by the mounting climate crisis – thanks to greedy companies who insist on burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels just to line their pockets.
“Chevron needs to face its destructive legacy: stop drilling, stop making enormous profit at the expense of our planet and its people, and start paying to clean up the mess it has made, especially as the company announced it’s moving its headquarters to Texas.”
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