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Chevron, Occidental and Civitas cited for falsified lab reports downplaying pollutants in Colorado groundwater Chevron, Occidental and Civitas were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that underrerported groundwater pollution levels.

"Colorado’s three largest oil and gas producers were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that minimized the levels of a wide variety of pollutants, including arsenic and barium in the soil and benzene in groundwater."

ARSENIC IN THE FUCKING GROUNDWATER!

FPF sues Justice Department over Qatari plane secrecy Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks legal justification for Trump acceptance of luxury jet

Pam Bondi’s memo OK’ing Trump’s acceptance of the Qatari jet shouldn’t be secret.

We’re suing with @weareoversight.bsky.social so the public can read it.

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

“The inquiry found that Edinburgh University became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of white supremacism in the 18th and 19th centuries, and who played a pivotal role in the creation of discredited “racial pseudo-sciences” that placed Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy”

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.

This is censorship and cowardice.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Remember the Taylor Energy spill in the Gulf? It was the longest-running oil spill in the US. The leak began in 2004, after Hurricane Ivan, and was capped in 2019. As the spill was going on, LSU named an engineering building in the Taylor Energy founder's name: www.lsu.edu/eng/about/pf...

‘Net zero’ emissions standard paused as Shell quits Energy group experts left after draft guidance on global warming plans ‘did not reflect the industry view’

Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge have all quit the expert advisory group of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) because the draft standards for net zero require them to refrain from developing new oil and gas fields and significantly reduce their oil and gas production. 🙄

Today is another day to ❤️ FOIAs

The other thing the ground is, is energy efficient. It holds cars up without any additional energy at all.

The sky does not. It takes a lot of energy to get up, and stay up. The fuel/energy demands remain horribly impractical. That's an order of magnitude worse for the copter style ones...

Texas coastal town in “David and Goliath” fight against planned ammonia plant Ingleside residents are resisting a “charm offensive” as Europe’s largest gas user plans a new facility in their small community across the bay from Corpus Christi.

✍️ My latest with @sarasneath.bsky.social for @desmog.com and @texastribune.org

With edits by brilliant @phoebecooke.bsky.social and beautiful photos by Brenda Bazán

www.texastribune.org/2025/07/03/t...

‘Slapp addict’ Italian oil firm accused of trying to silence green activists Eni has filed at least six defamation suits against journalists and NGOs since 2019 in what critics say is intimidation campaign

Environment groups say Eni is engaging in a campaign to stifle critics, with the company having filed at least six defamation lawsuits against journalists and NGOs since January 2019

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember the small town in Texas I investigated for @thexylom.com?

It's back in the news again, thanks to Enbridge's relentless efforts to build a "blue ammonia" plant, despite our previous reporting that the Ingleside, TX, City Council unanimously denied their permit application.

A great read:

They also must not wash their butts if this man is saying his anus is itchy all the time

Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to… An online game used in UK schools portrays oil, gas and coal as part of a green transition.

I didn't think I could still be shocked by fossil fuel companies' lobbying tactics but this story, first revealed by Malene Emilie Rustad at the Norwegian publication E24, is amazing.

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

I don't get the sarcasm. People who live there can't up and decide it's not a place worth fighting for anymore

Ingleside hasn't had a lot of heavy polluting industry tho. When I lived in Texas, I'd go to this part of the coast for my birthday.

Texas coastal town in “David and Goliath” fight against planned ammonia plant Ingleside residents are resisting a “charm offensive” as Europe’s largest gas user plans a new facility in their small community across the bay from Corpus Christi.

"We were this little pocket of paradise. This area was known for fishing long before it was known for petroleum,” Carlton said.

🔴 NEW 🔴

This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia

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📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

- Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the US chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed

Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.

If you're like why would they do this? Because the goal is to privatize weather forecasts. They've been really clear about this. It won't work and a lot of people will die. But some other people might get rich so

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

- Rapporteur Elisa Morgera calls for defossilization of economies & urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

"Harrington wouldn’t give him a clear answer about his funding request, telling him, 'Unfortunately you keep finding more slaves,' he said, and that “every new person is a source of guilt and shame for Harvard.'"

Yeah, I'm sure that'll go away if you just bury it.

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from Tesla Takedown to out-trolling trolls. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share.

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The NYT’s big profile on Skrmetti is centered around a genuine factual error, accusing the movement for trans rights and ACLU specifically of being behind the lawsuit, when it was the Biden administration.

It’s literally in the name of the case, US v Skrmetti.

lol so women are probably cheating at boot camp but tech bros don't need to go

Why the world cannot quit coal Ten years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, demand for coal shows no sign of peaking

"Today the world burns nearly double the amount of coal that it did in 2000 — and four times the amount it did in 1950."

Inside the Fight to Get Australia’s Monash University to Divorce Fossil Fuels for Good One of Australia’s most prestigious universities promised to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. It later revised this decision to say it would only divest from coal, allowing the country’s biggest oil ...

This @roycerk2.bsky.social story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social perfectly illustrates the reputation-washing benefit of university partnerships for fossil fuel companies. In this case, LNG giant Woodside gets to be the name of the cool, green, futuristic building on campus drilled.media/news/monash

Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research A Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u...

In her resignation letter, Kimberly Terrell accused the university of sacrificing academic freedom to appease Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry.
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