{"id":1025,"date":"2026-07-17T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:09:08","slug":"calls-grow-for-accountability-from-fossil-fuel-executives-amid-climate-fueled-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Calls Grow for Accountability From Fossil Fuel Executives Amid Climate-Fueled Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news \u2014 make a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> to Truthout today!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1023\">As Trump Targets Trans Women in Washington Prisons, Amber Kim Awaits a Court\u2019s Verdict<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As wildfires raged across Canada on Thursday, sending dangerous smoke across the border into major US cities, climate advocates called for accountability for the fossil fuel industry, which knew for decades that its products were largely responsible for the climate crisis, yet chose to push climate denial instead.<\/p>\n<p>While fire is a natural part of the lifecycle of Canada\u2019s boreal forests, the heating of the atmosphere due to the burning of oil, gas, and coal has made fires more frequent and extreme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need Nuremberg trials for Big Oil,\u201d the youth-led Sunrise Movement wrote on social media in response to the fires.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We need Nuremberg trials for Big Oil. https:\/\/t.co\/nHhbDXB06X<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sunrise Movement \ud83c\udf05 (@sunrisemvmt) July 16, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Climate Defiance agreed, posting, \u201cNuremberg-style trials are in order for the fossil fuel executives who knew what they were doing to our children\u2019s futures and did anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were 884 fires burning in Canada on Thursday, with 124 out of control, according to the country\u2019s national wildland fire summary. Over 100 fires were raging in Ontario alone, where they have forced the evacuation of at least 15 rural communities; destroyed homes in the Indigenous community of Collins First Nation, or Namaygoosisagagun; and polluted the skies over parts of the upper Midwest and Northeastern US.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday evening Eastern time, the four cities with the worst air quality in the world were Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Toronto, according to IQAir.<\/p>\n<p>People have shared dramatic footage of the fires on social media. One video shows a train moving through a blaze near Armstrong, Ontario. Thankfully, all crew members were evacuated safely, <em>The Guardian<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is near Armstrong, Ontario. <\/p>\n<p>When will the Canadian National Railway Company make a statement about this incident? pic.twitter.com\/6bKJYugeR0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sol Mamakwa (@solmamakwa) July 14, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indigenous photographer Nadya Kwandibens shared images of flames rising over a lake with the words, \u201cMy family hometown, Collins Ontario, is GONE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the community fled the blaze in boats before the flames damaged and destroyed several homes and other structures, according to <em>CBC News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollins has burned to the ground. This is a tragedy and we are grateful that everyone got out safely,\u201d Lise Vaugeois, the provincial representative for the region, said, as<em> The Guardian<\/em> reported. \u201cFires are part of a natural cycle, but the extreme temperatures we are experiencing across the county and the growing severity of weather events are indicators of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1021\">US Bombs Iran\u2019s Civilian Infrastructure as Trump Threatens Power Plants, Bridges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laura Chasmer, a professor of geography and the environment at the University of Western Ontario, noted that fires in Canada like the ones raging across Ontario have increased since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is associated with some of the extreme climate warming that we\u2019ve been seeing, and the atmospheric drying of the surface,\u201d she told <em>BBC News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandi Morin, a Cree-Iroquois-French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, noted in her Substack that Canada was warming at twice the global average. Despite this, the Canadian government has made progress on three major fossil fuel pipelines this July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery barrel these new pipelines are built to move adds to the exact warming that\u2019s turning our boreal forests into tinder,\u201d Morin wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the border, Michigan regulators late Wednesday approved important permits from the controversial Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders and climate advocates responded to the fires and smoke with calls to abandon fossil fuel projects, transition to renewable energy, and hold oil and gas companies accountable for the harms they have caused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the technology and the policy roadmap to replace fossil fuels with green energy extremely rapidly. The only thing stopping us is a handful of billionaires getting rich while our world burns,\u201d the Sunrise Movement said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have the technology and the policy roadmap to replace fossil fuels with green energy extremely rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing stopping us is a handful of billionaires getting rich while our world burns. https:\/\/t.co\/6oqGxoC8m3<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sunrise Movement \ud83c\udf05 (@sunrisemvmt) July 16, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As smoke drifted over Boston on Wednesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote on social media: \u201cLook outside in Massachusetts right now. The climate crisis is here. Wildfire smoke is suffocating our communities and our children are breathing dirty air. We need a Green New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Look outside in Massachusetts right now. The climate crisis is here. Wildfire smoke is suffocating our communities and our children are breathing dirty air. We need a Green New Deal. https:\/\/t.co\/pXo5XOOt0q<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) July 15, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClimate change isn\u2019t a tragedy, it\u2019s a crime. The fossil fuel industry are arsonists at a global scale. It\u2019s their pollution that\u2019s fueling these horrific wildfires,\u201d Jamie Henn, the director of Fossil Free Media, told <em>Common Dreams<\/em>. \u201cInstead of approving new pipelines, the Canadian government should be holding the industry accountable and using their record profits to help communities on the frontlines of this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1019\">Republicans Want to Punish Canada for \u201cExporting\u201d Its Wildfire Smoke Into the US<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need Nuremberg trials for Big Oil,\u201d the Sunrise Movement wrote on social media as wildfires rage across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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