Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Chevron demonstrates policy engagement that is oppositional to science-aligned climate policy. The company opposes climate regulations and advocates for new fossil fuel infrastructure across the world. Chevron retains memberships to several industry associations engaged in obstructive climate policy advocacy.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Chevron’s high-level communications appear supportive of climate action. The company stated support for the Paris Agreement on its website, when accessed in August 2025. However, CEO Mike Wirth appeared to support the US Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement in an August 2025 interview with The Australian. In the company’s lobbyist registry filing in Canada in July 2025, it appeared supportive of a 2050 net-zero target in the country.
Chevron appears unsupportive of climate regulation, as the company specifies several conditions to be considered in policy development that could significantly weaken the ambition and impact of policies. For instance, on the website, when accessed in August 2025, Chevron promoted carbon pricing as the "primary policy tool" and advocated for "broad, market-based," policies. In a September 2024 comment to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Chevron opposed regional climate policymaking in the US, as it challenged California Air Resources Board's (CARB) legal authority to act on “globalized issues like climate change”.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Chevron is negatively engaged on most forms of climate regulation, with some instances of positive positions. In the US, the company opposed measures to reduce methane emissions from livestock manure management operations, under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard in February, August and October 2024 comments to the government. The company also appeared unsupportive of tailpipe GHG emissions standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles in a July 2023 submission to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and opposed EPA’s GHG emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles in June 2023 comments.
In Canada, the company sent a joint industry letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney in April 2025 calling for the withdrawal of the proposed Oil & Gas Emissions Cap and the Output-Based Pricing System. In a January 2024 joint industry letter, Chevron attempted to weaken British Columbia’s carbon tax by advocating for exemptions for "clean" liquid fuels. However, the company appeared supportive of Australia’s low carbon liquid fuel standard in July 2024 consultation response, and advocated for policies to support the development of a global carbon market in May 2024 comments.
Positioning on Energy Transition: Chevron opposes an energy transition and advocates for continued fossil fuel expansion. The company advocated for new federal offshore oil and gas exploration licences in the US in June 2025 comments to the government. Similarly, the company disclosed advocacy for government incentives for oil and gas exploration in Canada’s federal lobbyist registry filing in July 2025. As per a June 2024 record in the Colorado Lobbyist Registry, a lobbyist voted on behalf of Chevron in opposition to SB24-159, a Colorado state-level bill which would require the state to phase out issuing new oil and gas permits by 2030.
Chevron also advocates against specific measures to decarbonize the economy. In June 2025, the company advocated for the passage of the 2025 budget reconciliation bill in the US, which proposed the repeal or rapid phase out of many of the Inflation Reduction Act's climate incentives in a joint letter to Senate leaders. The company also opposes policies to aid electrification of road transport: Chevron opposed EPA’s proposal to grant a waiver to California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Fleet in September 2025 comments, raising concerns about electric vehicles. While Chevron’s website, when accessed in August 2025, advocated for measures to aid the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS), it did not clarify the intended applications of CCS or how the technology can contribute to the energy transition.
Industry Association Governance: Chevron has disclosed a partial list of its industry association memberships on the website. The company also published a report in 2023 outlining the high-level climate policy positions of its key associations such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. As of August 2025, the company has not provided an update to this report.
Chevron has not disclosed the company’s membership to key industry associations outside the US that engage negatively on climate policy, including Australian Energy Producers (formerly APPEA) and International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP).
A detailed assessment of the company's corporate review on climate policy engagement can be found on InfluenceMap's CA100+ Investor Hub here.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information, see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q3, 2025.