Film: The Power of Big Oil + Q&A with Chelsea Linsley

Everybody's Climate
Thursday, 7/24/2025
12:00 - 3:45
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room B
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

We continue July’s Everybody's Climate film series with a screening of the documentary The Power of Big Oil, a three-part documentary that examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. The Power of Big Oil traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.  

Directors: Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin Barnwell 

NR, 3 hrs 10 mins., 2022. Closed captions (CC) in English. 

Please stay for the post-screening Q&A with Chelsea Linsley, Senior Attorney with The Center for Climate Integrity

The Center for Climate Integrity is a nonprofit organization that supports communities in efforts to hold oil and gas corporations accountable for deceiving the public about their harmful products.  

Chelsea Linsley is a Senior Attorney based in Oakland, CA. Chelsea has over eight years of experience holding major industries accountable for the protection of the environment and human health. She joined the Center for Climate Integrity in 2022 and supports the organization’s legal strategies on climate change and insurance.   

Everybody’s Climate 2025: Connect with others to address the climate crisis in ways that are meaningful to you, from poetry and music to science and practical action. 

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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