Fossil Free Politics

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it. Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

Ever wondered how Europe got hooked on US gas?

Based on research by our good friends at ARIA, this article shows how just one lobbyist can be enough to convince our leaders to go for American LNG.

It's another reason we need to cut fossil fuels out of our politics.

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Great work! Unbelievable that the EU Commission denied any involvement. Aren't they funding South Africa's Just Energy Transition Partnership?

ICYMI: Last week @corporateeurope.org was in the EU Parliament for a special screening of their new film about the struggle of South African communities against new green hydrogen projects.

🚨 SPOILER ALERT: Green hydrogen is being used by the fossil fuels industry to greenwash their activities 👀

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A conflict of interest that stinks to high heaven? Yep, that's exactly what it is!

Lead author of a new IPCC report into reducing oil&gas emissions used to work for @saudiaramco.bsky.social for 18 years.

via @globalenergymon.bsky.social' #InsideGas

www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

DOE plays out worst-case scenarios for US grid The Department of Energy report is widely viewed as groundwork for the White House to order coal and gas plants slated for closure to run for longer.

New report from US Department of Energy warns that 🇺🇸 will lose the AI race unless it keeps older coal + gas plants open, and speeds up construction of new ones.

It's as if the fossil fuel industry is running the government... oh yeah, they actually do 🤦🏼‍♂️

www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

🗞️La vicenda della SLAPP, dell'azione intimidatoria di #ENI verso il nostro Antonio Tricarico per le dichiarazioni rilasciate a Report è finita sulla home del @theguardian.com.

🤔La testata 🇬🇧 racconta tutta la storia, che tanti media mainstream 🇮🇹 hanno ignorato 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change calls for a ban on fossil fuel lobbying.

Each failed attempt to address climate change lays bear the damaging political influence of the coal, oil and gas lobby.

It's time for #FossilFreePolitics.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 BREAKING: Despite supposed reforms, carbon offsets are still ineffective and prone to failure.

New research from @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social exposes offsetting as a #DangerousDistraction and #FalseSolution to the climate crisis.

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Governments are in Bonn for the UN climate negotiations. They have the chance to tackle conflicts of interest and stop the fossil fuel lobby's damaging impact on the talks.

@wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu will you ensure the EU supports action on conflicts of interest?
#SB62
#PollutersOut

As governments meet in Bonn for the UN climate talks, here's another timely reminder for @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu

The EU needs to get behind effort to protect the talks from fossil fuel industry interference. We need a conflict of interest policy at the UNFCCC + in Brussels!
#PollutersOut #SB62

Our asks to Hoekstra:

🛡️ Proactively publicly call for the UNFCCC to create an Accountability Framework

🛡️ Not bring any fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30

🛡️ Support an EU-level conflict of interest framework to protect European decision-making

Read more: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...
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Last year at his confirmation hearing, Hoekstra himself supported an Accountability Framework meant to keep away undue fossil fuel influence from climate issues 🎥

#FossilFreePolitics #KickBigPollutersOut
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We have reason to be hopeful since the European Commission didn’t bring any fossil fuel executives last year 👍

But there is much room for improvement, since the EU Member States still brought more than 113 fossil fuel lobbyists to COP29 🫠

#FossilFreePolitics #KickBigPollutersOut
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60 organisations sent a reminder to Hoekstra ahead of the climate talks in Bonn - Fossil Free Politics A timely reminder signed by 60 organisations was sent to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. Initiated by the Fossil Free Politics campaign and supported by the KickBigPollutersOut coalition, we’r...

🔔 Reminder sent 🔔

60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn #SB62

💌: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...

#FossilFreePolitics #PollutersOut
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The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part II: Gas imports & energy prices | Corporate Europe Observatory The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will  guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently a...

The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈

This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.

Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...

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.

🔴 REVEALED 🔴

BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.

✏️ @rebeccajohn.bsky.social‬ reports: buff.ly/ZQ1IaRF

2️⃣ And how the Clean Industrial Deal was created during the Antwerp Summit, when the energy-intensive industry managed to push all of their demands on the EU political agenda.

Some highlights from the interview with our campaigner @kimclaes.bsky.social:

1️⃣ About the EU Energy Industry Advisory Group, created after Russia's invasion in which the fossil Fuel got direct access to decision makers - and public subsidies.

Gekaapt door gas: hoe de fossiele lobby de Oekraine-oorlog gebruikte Hoe gebruikte de gaslobby de oorlog in Oekraïne om het Europese energiebeleid naar hun hand te zetten?

Europe is stuck with gas again. How could that happen? And what role did the gas lobby play in it?

@argosonderzoekt.bsky.social (VPRO/broadcaster HUMAN) reconstructs how gas, against climate goals, became the energy source of the future again.

🎧 For Dutch speakers - argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/ge...

Fossil fuel lobbyists and their Big Energy allies have been busy weakening laws in Brussels. If we want strong climate legislation, we need to protect it from industry lobbyists with a clear vested interest. We need #FossilFreePolitics

Exposure is a great way to stop these firms from undermining climate action while posing as sustainability champions.

So make sure to spread the list as widely as possible 📢

Public affairs firms in Europe enable pollution by lobbying for big oil, says analysis Exclusive: EU Transparency Register shows law firms also among lobbyists working for fossil fuel companies

🚨 Public affairs firms caught enabling pollution by lobbying for big oil

Our friends at @thegoodlobby.bsky.social have teamed up with @theguardian.com to unveil the first dataset of public affairs and law firms serving the fossil fuel industry in the EU.

Research: bit.ly/4d3DXTr
#DecarbLobbying

📢 NGOs under attack! Join us and 570+ organisations calling on MEPs to address unfair attacks on NGOs in the European Parliament and ensure that citizens’ voices are heard!
📄 Read our statement: friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u...
#StopAttackingNGOs

Carbon Offset Industry - Discredited - SOMO Eight critical flaws in industry reports expose how misleading data is used to promote the offset industry. Read more.

The #CarbonOffset industry cherry-picks data to push a misleading narrative ⚠️

SOMO and @datadesk.bsky.social analysed 2 of their reports; and expose 8 big flaws in their data and methodology.

This isn’t just bad science. It’s a dangerous distraction.

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/discredited/

We hope you didn't fall for any April Fools jokes today, but the fossil fuel industry tries to trick us every day of the year...

Don't be fooled by their false solutions like CCS or Blue Hydrogen!

So be vigilant today, and every day!

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Two FFP affiliated publications mentioned in this great article on green NGO funding ✌️

Article: euobserver.com/eu-political...

The publication on blue hydrogen: fossilfreepolitics.org/wp-content/u...

The "Shareholders" report: friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u...

We need a firewall around UN and EU climate decision-making, just like there is for tobacco.

But what would that look like?

#FossilFreePolitics✂️

Black background, with two bright yellow horizontal banners. The top one has written in big bold black capital letters “Phase-out fossil fuels and their associated infrastructure”, and to the left of the banner is “1” in bright yellow. The bottom banner has written inside “Cut out fossil fuel interest out of our politics immediately!”, and to the left is a “2” in bright yellow. At the top right corner is written over white background Fossil Free Politics in black smaller characters.

Label #BlueH2 as 'clean’ means billions in new subsidies 4 #fossilfuel projects that exacerbate the #ClimateCrisis

⛔no to #False Solutions such as #CCS and #H2

🆗 we need #FossilFreePolitics, to deliver real solutions & bring carbon emissions down to #RealZero

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EU Clean Industrial Deal in action Our new investigation reveals how fossil fuel giants have been lobbying to skew emission accounting models, allowing hydrogen made from fossil gas to be misleadingly labelled as 'clean’. This could pa...

Instead of prolonging our fossil fuel dependency:

1️⃣ We need to plan a phase-out of fossil fuels and their associated infrastructure

2️⃣ And as we always say: we need to cut out fossil fuel interest out of our politics immediately!

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❗Dirty hydrogen uncovered ❗

Thanks to excessive lobbying from big polluters, the EU is just about to label hydrogen made from fossil gas as clean.

Find out how they lobby behind closed doors to skew emissions accounting models in their favour.

📰 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/3/EU...

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