Amazon workers are the best climate activists in tech.

This piece has been published as part of Slate’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Employees at Microsoft are also participating, demanding the company reduce its carbon footprint and stop working with petroleum companies just days after CEO Satya Nadella announced a new cloud computing contract with oil giant Chevron and Schlumberger, the world’s biggest drilling services company. But if those workers have a reason to keep pressuring the company on climate issues, it’s that Amazon hasn’t always met its promises to reduce its carbon footprint. “To ask oil and energy companies to do this transition with bad tools is not a good idea and we won’t do that.” But while Bezos says Amazon’s goal is to help oil companies move away from fossil fuels, it’s hard to know what to make of the Amazon Web Services Oil and Gas website, which includes case studies from companies like BP and Shell about how Amazon’s machine learning tools had made finding and extracting oil even more efficient. In 2018, the company hired on a 25-year veteran of BP to lead a new division dedicated to serving the fossil fuel sector, and since has inked multiple major contracts with gas developers all over the world, including Anadarko Petroleum, one of the world’s largest oil drilling companies, to use Google’s cloud services to find more oil.