Meriem Mahdhi

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

Feeding Europe, Failing Workers.

Mittlerweile sind in sechs europäischen Ländern Texte zu unserer Crossborder-Recherche erschienen. Sie zeigt, wie die EU Arbeitsausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft mit Millionen subventioniert. Ein Überblick:

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Reminder - carbon offsetting is a con. We have to BOTH stop burning fossil fuels and look after nature

#ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...

NEW INVESTIGATION:

EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

Financed by @journalismfund.bsky.social, this project traced dozens of EU payments to farms committing serious labour abuses.

A🧵of cases demonstrating the lack of safeguards on CAP funds: www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Well done, Academy alumni @frnzskschwrz.bsky.social, @meriemm.bsky.social, @simonguichard.bsky.social & Carlotta Indiano!

The 2024 CLEW Summer Academy planted seeds for big stories

Read about alumni collaborations into food systems & carbon capture:
🍽️ www.journalismfund.eu/feeding-euro...
🏭 www.journalismfund.eu/carbon-captu...
& more to come!

If you want to make a new Summer Academy possible, get in touch or donate!

Agriculture : comment la PAC finance l’exploitation des travailleurs dans l’Union européenne - L'Humanité Censée faire enfin respecter le droit du travail dans les champs, la conditionnalité sociale des aides à la PAC s’est heurtée aux limites du système agricole européen. L’Humanité...

🔴RÉVÉLATIONS🔴 Des agriculteurs reconnus coupables d'avoir exploité des travailleurs migrants continuent de toucher des millions d’euros de la PAC.
Durant 9 mois, @humanite.fr et 5 médias européens ont enquêté sur le scandale de la conditionnalité sociale des aides PAC 🔽

Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in subsidies.

Our investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. @journalismfund.bsky.social

My latest for De Smog

The U.K., a country without any written constitution and a tradition of absolute parliamentary sovereignty and no longer with the legal framework of the EU, has become a honeypot for crackpot tech accelerationists.

You’re just one cabinet meeting away from instituting literally any mad notion.

Alternative medicine and supplements companies. A few businesses have made a fortune out of false claims that Ivermectin could cure COVID. A claim spread nonetheless than Joe Rogan himself.

🕯️ 𝟐𝟗 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓: 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐚𝐛: 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑎𝑗𝑎𝑏, 𝐻𝑒𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎

Caso Orlandi, giallo all'archivio centrale dello Stato: il fascicolo su Emanuela è vuoto A prendere atto che un fascicolo su Emanuela Orlandi, proveniente dal Ministero dell'Interno, è stato il senatore Andrea De Priamo, presidente della Commissione di inchiesta sulle scomparse della stes...

The docket containing documents investigating the case of #EmanuelaOrlandi, a young girl who disappeared in the summer of 1983 in Vatican City, and whose disappearance has been linked - among other theories - to a #Vatican sex ring, has been found empty.

www.rainews.it/articoli/202...

With sharp rise in incorporations, Wyoming cements reputation as US secrecy haven - ICIJ New data shows that company registrations in the Cowboy State have eclipsed Delaware, a renowned tax haven. Local officials are scrambling to keep up.

Trusts are legal arrangements that can give opacity and protection by separating assets from their original owners — at least when such distance is convenient for tax planning or other purposes.

Wyoming’s business code can take this a step further. https://buff.ly/4iTucta

Our latest investigation exposes the Briton who helped manage millions on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad.

It also shines a light on the UK’s role in enabling some of the world’s most infamous kleptocrats.

v/ a formidable team @edsiddons.bsky.social @meriemm.bsky.social & @eleanorrose87.bsky.social

‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash… Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

🚨 BREAKING: @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people

The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”

‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash… Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad

BREAKING: TBIJ and the Guardian are unmasking a Briton who helped manage hundreds of millions of pounds allegedly looted from the Syrian people

The Briton worked on behalf of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar and a man known as the “butcher of Hama”