Rebecca Leber

Oil Companies Are Sued Over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave

News you may have missed www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...

"Defendants have known for all of Julie’s life that their affirmative misrepresentations and omissions would claim lives. Julie is a victim of Defendants’ conduct. Her lifespan is a bridge between cause and effect"

—the 1st wrongful death lawsuit against Big Oil climatecasechart.com/case/leon-v-...

honored!

not sure what we're talking about, but cool!

The Fraud of Advanced Recycling | Center for Climate Integrity How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry are Promoting a False Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis

First @davisallen.bsky.social exposed how the oil industry promoted recycling knowing full well it wouldn't address plastic waste

Now it is "advanced recycling,” the same problem dressed up as a new "solution" -- check out his report! climateintegrity.org/projects/adv...

AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research.

AI overviews are ~very~ ~bad~ for legit and non-predatory information sources. AI overviews are often wrong or simplistic, but Google displays them prominently and distracts people from clicking through on websites with more reliable answers, websites that need the traffic to survive.

excited to see folks at #sej2025! say hi, commiserate together

story is good, undermined by a bizarre choice of a subheadline

It sounds like it (and living with purple AQI while we're at it)

I've been thinking about air quality reports too

Trump Shares Video About How He Is 'Purposely Crashing the Stock Market' Donald Trump shared a video claiming he was intentionally crashing the stock market, prompting confusion from his supporters.

🫡 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Registration Details - Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference Register now for the #SEJ2025 annual environmental journalism conference, April 23-26, hosted by Arizona State University.

LAST DAY to register for the Society of Environmental Journalists conference before rates increase.

It's also the deadline for hotel group rates so don't procrastinate any longer! conference.sej.org/registration...

Center for Public Integrity is shutting down Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.

Center for Public Integrity is shutting down: Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group. www.cjr.org/news/center-...

Amazing things are possible if 1) you can afford enough lawyers to neutralize any case against you, 2) you can pick the court, and 3) you are confident you'd get a full pardon if you step in it.

if you think today's newspaper columns can be unhinged, the 1970s had no rules

Exclusive offer for #SEJ2025 attendees! Pre-order your official SEJ t-shirt now and pick it up at the registration desk. Place your order by March 31 to guarantee yours! We will have limited quantities available for purchase on-site. $25 — sej.memberclicks.net/shirtpreorde...

Jury finds Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions in case over Dakota Access protest activities A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims in connection with protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

wow, massive, frightening repercussions here apnews.com/article/gree...

Update on this: nearly 200 advocacy groups (including @climateintegrity.bsky.social) are now calling on Dems in Congress to oppose a liability waiver for the fossil fuel industry www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I read a story this morning with a headline that Trump's rollbacks have made environmentalists furious

A lesson I learned reporting on Trump's rollbacks of environmental law — don't frame these as political fights — environmentalists vs Trump; focus on the real-world impacts.

There's no restriction to students!

Remote! We have staff based around the country

Flattered you think I'm running the country

Hiring a paid summer intern to work with me on a cool project. Dates are flexible. jobs.gusto.com/postings/cen...

Fieldnotes is Hiring Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

jobs! great openings at @fieldnotes.co, which is doing innovative investigative work to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable

fieldnotes.co/reporting/fi...

a bunch of outlets totally wiped out their environmental and climate desks in 2011 after cap-and-trade legislation failed.

this cycle of layoffs is more existential — the news business is failing — but it's also the same short-sightedness and cowering to power.

here to talk - disappointed news media absolutely failing the moment by downsizing climate coverage

The CRA is a kind of congressional loophole to stop an agency from ever issuing a substantially similar regulation again, requiring a simple majority vote. So far, enviro regs an unsurprising target - including methane, HFCs and energy efficiency.

helpful tracker here ->

The NYU climate economics journalism fellowship was a great experience & I met journalists from around the world — applications are open for their next cycle!

www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-s...

More than $6 Million in Support of Climate Journalism

Some good news for climate journalism as MacArthur rolls out $6 million in grants (with Society of Environmental Journalists on the list!). It's exciting to see how many of these outlets prioritize accountability journalism. www.macfound.org/press/press-...