Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

ExxonMobil severed ties with ALEC in 2018, but had given more than $1.7 million to the group between 1998 and 2015, according to Exxon’s publicly available disclosures published by the Center for Media and Democracy. Chevron and Energy Transfer have not replied to CNN’s request for comment.