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❌ Plastics Treaty not for sale!
Oil producing countries want to sell out the #PlasticsTreaty to the fossil fuel lobby! We can’t let them!
Watch and share the video to demand world leaders to step up and deliver a strong treaty that cuts plastic production!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty

⚠️ Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have flooded #PlasticsTreaty talks at a record high. They're working with petrostates to distract, delay, and drag the treaty toward the lowest common denominator.
#KickPollutersOut #INC5-2
👉 Read more: bit.ly/41wUn1L

Did you know the plastic industry is Making Oil Great Again? 🛢️🤑🛢️
But “Drill Baby Drill” doesn’t have to be the future for plastic (99% of which is made of oil or gas) or the planet!

🎥 Watch & check out @Greenpeaceuk’s new report
www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...

Tyre-wear particles are a major source of microplastics that harm the environment.

The good news? Prevention and mitigation can help to #BeatPollution.

Explore more from this online brief: www.unep.org/resources/em...

There is no escape from #Microplastic and #Nanoplastics, but there's #inequality in the impact of this, as all of the other impacts of the #FossilFuel profiteers

#PlasticsTreaty

Great to see @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social take up the issue of fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbying at the plastics treaty talks including our @ciel.org finding of 220 lobbyists at INC5.

www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-l...

Memes I never thought I'd have to make....

The irony on top is politico carrying adverts for Equinor about "oil and gas powering the energy transition" and a brand survey for fossil fuel companies around their reporting.

Pathways Alliance Sponsored Science Fairs for Canadian Children Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.

An alliance of tarsands oil producers with a long track record of minimizing or ignoring the risks of climate change have been sponsoring science fairs

It's just the latest effort by the fossil fuel industry to gain social acceptance

Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli

www.desmog.com/2025/06/30/p...

British overseas territories miss final deadline to crack down on ‘dirty money’ Island havens accused of ‘defying the will of parliament’ after failing to initiate corporate transparency measures

🚨UK TAX HAVENS MISS TRANSPARENCY DEADLINE🚨

UK offshore financial centres have failed to comply with the deadline for ending corporate secrecy, enabling dirty money to stay hidden in the UK.

This undermines the UK's anti-corruption efforts and weakens national security.

More in @theguardian.com ⤵️

The Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionaires The bill could pass within the next 24 hours.

It’s so important to understand WHY the new Senate bill has such drastic provisions to kill renewable energy

Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

Thrilled to be moderating this panel of badass women journalists. Join us! (open to the public on Zoom)
@amywestervelt.bsky.social @democracynow.org and more
BREAKTHROUGH JOURNALISM: STRATEGIES FOR COVERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS.
June 28, 2025. 2pm ET
#WECAN
www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assem...

with the final round of UN plastic treaty negotiations in 4 weeks time, we've written a short piece that sets out the concept of a 'petrochemical historical bloc' to reveal the depth and extent of forces opposing strong global governance of plastic

With @ciel.org's @erikalennon.bsky.social:

"It is long past time for a conflict of interest policy. You wouldn’t let the tobacco companies write the rules on public health or the gun manufacturers writing rules on gun control."

#KickBigPollutersOut of the UN Climate Talks, NOW!

Last week the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights produced its report on the UK's 2024 election with a specific section on campaign finance. And made a series of weighty recommendations along the lines that others have recommended for years🧵

www.osce.org/files/f/docu...

‘How many people were arrested?’ is a lousy way to cover protests | Press Watch Protests are big news now. That calls for better reporting on them.

On the eve of "NO KINGS" day, some advice for journalists on how to cover protests (and how not to.) presswatchers.org/2025/06/how-...

Dear Mr. Leopold, This letter is in response to your correspondence to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP or the Institute) regarding a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We understand that your request was submitted on March 18, 2025. As you may know, at the time of your request, USIP was operating under the control of Mr. Kenneth Jackson and Mr. Nate Cavanaugh of the United States Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Cavanaugh disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute tinancial resources. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia declared all actions taken by Mr. Jackson and Mr. Cavanaugh to be null, void, and without legal effect" and affirmed USIP's current leadership on May 19, 2025. USIP leadership regained control of the Institute's FOIA system on June 4, 2025. Accordingly, we received your request on June 4, 2025. We regret any confusion caused by Mr. Jackson's and Mr. Cavanaugh's actions.

Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out.

In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Such an important project tracking a toxic disaster at a sprawling petroleum refinery. Accidents like this often go unscrutinized but this series showed the importance of digging in.

👏👏👏 @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @sarasneath.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress | by Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey - Project Syndicate Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey warn that platforms built to maximize engagement are suppressing facts and amplifying dangerous falsehoods.

"The pollution metaphor is apt because it captures the chaotic and toxic nature of today’s information landscape, which is controlled by a handful of powerful companies that commodify attention and inundate our feeds with “AI slop”"
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency Since 1998, the Chemical Safety Board has played a key role in probing the causes of major chemical accidents.

Trump wants to shut down the Chemical Safety Board which has a unique role investigating chemical plant incidents.

The result: more chemical releases, worker deaths and community pollution.

All to save $14 million. And to make the chemical industry happy

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

REVEALED: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.

🚨 NEW STORY 🚨

Did you know the US's most powerful oil trade group sponsored the Girl Scouts USA as "nontraditional local allies" useful in the battle over policy issues? or that BP funded Ford's Theatre to access "Members of Congress, the Administration"? Internal company documents tell all ...

Preventing corporate capture: Democratic legitimacy and the global plastics treaty UN global plastics treaty negotiations have been marked by power imbalances impacting the participation of rights holders and civil society. This commentary examines how multistakeholder processes hav...

New commentary with colleagues from @ciel.org @greenpeace.org and @scientistscoa.bsky.social on the UN global plastics treaty and corporate capture

We highlight power imbalances in negotiations, and suggest ways to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of a future treaty

This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes.
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Brilliant achievement! Now MPs must consider the petition for a debate in Parliament - it couldn’t be more urgent to stop fossil fuel ads creating a social licence of trust & acceptability

Breaking: Three people were killed and two others injured in an accident at a #LNG plant under construction in Texas on Tuesday, according to the lead contractor Bechtel.
The fatal incident occurred at Sempra's (SRE.N) Port Arthur LNG construction site, according to Bechtel. c/o Reuters

Uncovering the secrets of ARIA How an ‘advanced’ scientific body was reduced to claiming environmental information was not ‘environmental information’

"The only way this establishment thinking can be routed... is by improving accountability and giving greater force to the FOI Act and the EIRs"

Terrific piece by @davidallengreen.bsky.social about Democracy for Sale's information battle w/ARIA
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Democracy for Sale 1, Dominic Cummings 0 We fought to expose the £800m research agency that Cummings built to escape scrutiny - and we won.

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings?

It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws

We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉

New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Over the past two years, the Ener...

Also - a reminder that the opposition to heat pumps has been manufactured by gas industry lobbyists

The right-wing press has spread a load of baseless falsehoods about heat pumps. That’s the main reason why the technology is politically ‘controversial’.

By banning Evan Davis from doing a podcast about heat pumps, the BBC is dancing to the tune of people pushing out blatant misinformation