Fossil fuel CEOs are making an outrageous amount of money as a reward for destroying the planet

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson
Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The executives at the helms of the 30 biggest oil, gas and coal companies in the United States took home a collective $6 billion in compensation over the past five years, a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found. (emphasis added)

That’s twice the money, just to drive the point home, that the U.S. pledged to help developing nations adapt to the impacts of climate change, by which they are expected to be disproportionately affected.

The CEOs of these companies, the report further found, are some of the most handsomely compensated executives in the country, making 9 percent more than the S&P 500 average. Another pointed statistic: they’ve accumulated a collective $1.2 billion in retirement assets, ensuring that they, if not everyone else, are ensured comfortable futures.

Look, maybe I’m just jealous because these guys (it’s all guys) are raking in the big bucks while I sit here writing all day about how they’re destroying the planet for relative (and practically […]