Barnaby Pace

AI’s soaring power demand is being used to justify new gas/coal plants “cleaned” by CCS. Track record: 88% failures, big costs, bigger delays. With #COP30, close CCS/offset loopholes and align NDCs with 1.5°C. Read: bit.ly/4pgcG55

Let's not power tomorrow’s AI with yesterday’s fuels.

Oil & gas companies sure get lots of access to Carney's ministers....

Follow the @fedlobbot.bsky.social for updates on how much lobbying is happening

You will:
📚 Conduct legal research on climate, human rights & trade
🗣️ Support advocacy & policy analysis
✍️ Contribute to briefs & publications
💰 Receive a monthly stipend

Apply now to help shape a more just and sustainable future.

Spring 2026 Legal Internship (Climate & Energy – Geneva) at CIEL.

🌍 Calling future environmental lawyers!
🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025
🔗 cielorg.bamboohr.com/careers/117?...

Join a team working at the intersection of #HumanRights, #ClimateJustice, and international law.

They’ll take part in two critical workshops:
🔹 “Investigating false solutions: geoengineering and desalination plants”
🔹 “Climate litigation in the age of misinformation”

They aim to equip journalists with tools to expose greenwashing, track false climate fixes, and navigate legal battles.

Next Friday in Budapest, CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social and @barnabypace.bsky.social join journalists and scientists at #ClimateArena2025 - an inspiring working conference by @journalismarena.eu to strengthen climate reporting across Europe.

📍 Corvinus University, Budapest
🗓️ October 10

ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US.
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w

Frack to Fork: Fossil Fertilizers Harm Health, Climate, and Food Systems (Sept 2025) - Center for International Environmental Law Fossil-fueled fertilizers drive climate change and threaten human health. Explore their hidden costs and learn proven solutions for resilient food systems.

⚠️ More than half of all fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. 🛢️ The result? A system that harms our health, drives climate change, and threatens food security. 🍽️ It’s time to rethink what’s on our plates.
👇 Learn more about the frack-to-fork supply chain.

Trump, Fossil Fuels, and Insurers Are Making Hurricane Season Even More Dangerous | Common Dreams With the federal government abdicating its responsibility, state and local leaders must step up. They have the power and duty to act.

Insurance math:
🔥 Communities hit by floods + fires = uninsurable.
🏭 Polluters driving disasters = cash + coverage.

As we brace for hurricane season, @ellejurca.bsky.social, @barnabypace.bsky.social & ‪‪@cslidders.bsky.social‬ make it clear: the system is broken.

The Gulf Coast — home to more than 84% of US plastics’ production and nearly half of US petroleum refining capacity — is bracing for more than five major hurricanes predicted for the Atlantic Ocean this year, all while federal protections are rolled back.

Latest from @ellejurca.bsky.social and me.

I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now

EPA Rollback: A New Era of Deregulation - Center for International Environmental Law EPA grants sweeping air pollution exemptions to petrochemical giants, risking public health and aiding industry lobbyists.

🛢️ Trump's EPA is helping Big Oil while communities pay the price. @ciel.org's analysis reveals companies lobbying millions to gut pollution rules are the same ones expanding toxic facilities at newly exempt sites.

Read more:

❌ 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...