Over the past five years, a new Institute for Policy Studies report details, top-ranking executives at America’s 30 largest oil, gas, and coal companies have together collected $5.97 billion in personal compensation.

Number of fossil fuel execs who shared in the $5.97-billion 2010-2014 pay bonanza

Pay incentives in the fossil fuel industry encourage environmentally

reckless behavior. Instead of investing big-time in renewables,

fossil fuel executives have their companies spending billions “buying

back” their stock, a maneuver designed to jack up share prices —

and inflate the share price-based pay that goes to top fossil fuel execs.

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Fossil fuel company buyback

spending, 2014

163Number of homes that $5.97 billion could weatherize3,321,881

$38.5 billion

Global 2014 private sector spending on renewable

energy R&D

$6.6 b

One of America’s top 30 fossil fuel giants, ConocoPhillips, currently ranks as the world’s biggest generator of pollution from methane, a greenhouse gas with 86 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance 2014 compensation:

$27 million

The Earth may have a shaky future. But

fossil fuel CEOs have arranged their own futures quite nicely.

The top 30 fossil fuel CEOs are currently

sitting on retirement accounts worth over

$500 million.

Value of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s retirement account:

$68 millionMedian retirement savings, U.S. households headed by 55-to-64-year-old

$103,200