Sara Sneath

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

This conversation on how media adds to obstruction on climate action by @amywestervelt.bsky.social with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social is really good

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships.

Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

Excel turned gene names into dates in one-fifth of human gene papers, but still won't auto-wrap text. Yet another reason journalists should learn to code. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27552985/

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the employees said."

Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt A Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023

Nearly a dozen journalists who spoke with Prism described pushback from editors & managers surrounding coverage that centered or mentioned Palestinians. They were sidelined or harassed, while U.S. media adopted a pro-Israel bias that muzzled the truth.
prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’

One of our fact checkers, @sarasneath.bsky.social, has done killer reporting on fossil fuel companies funding university research.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.desmog.com/2024/12/19/m... 8/

SLAPP’d The story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using the courts to punish protestors.

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD)

drilled.media/investigatio...

ICYMI yesterday, incredible reporting by @insideclimatenews.org and @propublica.org (with data from @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social) on the Texas oil & gas industry’s *massive* emissions from flaring and venting 👇

This was completely predictable. As I’ve been noting for several years, if you build LNG terminals you will increase domestic natural gas prices. It is designed to shift wealth from US energy consumers to gas producers - and it’s working.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Screenshot of the C+J website, including the dates, December 11 and 12, and the two keynotes, Attila Batorfy and Homa Hosseinmardi

The Computation+Journalism Symposium will take place on December 11-12 at the University of Miami. Join us: cplusj2025.com

The deadline to submit a talk, workshop, or panel is September 7th: cplusj2025.com/submissions/

We've already announced several speakers. More coming soon!

Revealed: gambling logos and ads seen up to every 13 seconds during big sports games in US Critics warn of top sports becoming a ‘second-by-second gambling opportunity’ as new study shared with the Guardian reveals scale of marketing blitz

NEW: Hockey fans were bombarded with gambling logos and adverts – sometimes as often as every 13 seconds – during TV coverage of high-profile games earlier this year, according to exclusive research shared with the Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

UPDATE:

🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B.

😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates:

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

The oil industry's Alliance to End Plastic Waste was created to "change the conversation – away from short-term simplistic bans of plastic," documents reveal

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

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