F Minus

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F Minus is exposing the extent to which fossil fuel lobbyists also represent people, communities, and businesses being harmed by the climate crisis.

Image of Brown & Weinraub's climate commitments laid out on its website. The firm touts that "We’re particularly proud of the work we continue to do to advance the alternative energy sector in New York State including having helped established the residential solar program, laying the groundwork for a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, managing the transition from older generation methods to new, cleaner technologies and promotion of electric vehicles, including scooters and e-bikes, as well as the infrastructure to charge them." In reality, the firm also makes a lot of money lobbying for the fossil fuel industry, making their lobbying agenda an inherent conflict of interests among clients.
Image from Costco's climate commitment page on its website, with an Asian man depicted at top right and a headline reading "We Believe in a Just Transition." Expanding on this headline, Costco states that, "We align our decarbonization objectives with our commitments to human rights, diversity, equity and inclusion, life above land and below water, water conservation and waste reduction. That's because we believe our transition to a low carbon business model also should represent a just transition for our employees, members, suppliers and the communities we serve."
Image of the front cover of the Houghton Mifflin book titled, "It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present and Future of Climate Change," with a polar bear on melting icebergs in the Arctic sea depicted. The book is by author Bridget Heos.
An image of Google's pledged climate change commitments from its website, which reads, "At Google, our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations and value chain by 2030. We aim to reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions (compared to our 2019 base year) by 2030, and plan to invest in nature-based and technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize our remaining emissions. Our net-zero goal is supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to operate our offices and data centers on 24/7 carbon-free energy, such as solar and wind.1 In our third decade of climate action, we continue to take a science-based approach to our efforts, while sharing our own lessons and progress with others. We’re working toward this goal in two key ways: first, we’re focused on reducing emissions across our operations and value chain (including advancing 24/7 carbon-free energy), and after reducing our emissions as much as possible, we’re addressing our residual emissions with carbon removals."
Image of a die-in protest tactic at the New York State Capitol on December 11, 2024, with activists seated on the floor and a sign calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Climate Superfund Act
F Minus branded image shows the hypocrisy of Google's relationship, as a climate leader within Big Tech, with a major fossil fuel lobbying firm named Brown & Weinraub
Graphic from the organization F Minus shows that there are 1,178 shared fossil fuel lobbyists with the healthcare industry at the state level, 689 between government and fossil fuel lobbyists, 291 between environmental lobbyists and fossil fuels, and 874 between educational interests and fossil fuels. That includes groups like the American Cancer Society, the City of Pittsburgh, The Nature Conservancy, and NYU School of Medicine all sharing lobbyists with firms that also represent the fossil fuel industry. The graphic reads that after year one of F Minus' coming into being, the group is "Exposing the lobbyists representing the Fosill Fuel companies and their victims." It is a white backdrop with red trimming, the same color of F Minus' logo
Marathon Refinery in Carson, CA, just outside of Los Angeles, with big American flag on it in the front
Firefighters put out a fire in Ventura County, part of the broader Mountain Fire
Oil derricks about the size and height of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago seen placed into that landscape to visualize the city's relationship with fossil fuel lobbyists as the city has sued the fossil fuel industry for decades of climate deception and now ongoing damages from the climate crisis
Phillips 66 gas station seen alongside an Arby's with bright blue sky and fluffy clouds at a stereotypical roadside location