Jesse Coleman

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas… Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common?

"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

New investigation from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas… Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here:
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...

The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

🚨A new investigation from @fieldnotes.co + @us.theguardian.com finds that major US soda & snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign to pit Trump’s MAGA against RFK’s MAHA—all in a bid to protect their bottom lines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.

The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A Top Trump Interior Official Once Pushed To Privatize Wildlife In the 1990s, Karen Budd-Falen challenged Wyoming’s authority to regulate hunting on behalf of ranchers.

DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...

Gulfstream LNG CEO calls out industry’s “irrational exuberance” - Gas Outlook A flurry of deals at Gastech showed interest in LNG growth. But industry leaders warned that investors will get "squeezed” by oversupply.

if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time

"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...

Be sure to check out this panel happening today if you are attending #ClimateWeekNYC! Our own @kellyemitchell.bsky.social will be there along with these other incredible voices - don't miss it!

Texas Oil Boom Leaves a Toxic Legacy of Its Own Making Toxic wastewater is spreading across America’s biggest oil field, posing a pressing threat to a basin that has grown into a cornerstone of global markets

Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Seems like the oil barons purchased domestic energy policy, but probably should have sprung for the premium international energy policy plan.

Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

And that underestimation is the intentional work of the oil industry. In 2023 the chair of a powerful oil lobbying group told EPA the ind was reducing methane pollution, though his company increased flaring 692% that year. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.

Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off. The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.

Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?

Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off. The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.

Thing is, it's NOT paying off, as the last half of the article details. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?

With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand? The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.

Big oil corporations want the Trump EPA to keep the veneer of methane regulation while gutting provisions that require real transparency and accountability (like third party reporting on super emitter events and the methane fee).

Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:

Put another way: $1 of every $7 MAGA Inc has brought in this year came from Kelcy Warren and Energy Transfer.

With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand? The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.

The EPA could repeal methane regs entirely -- but what does the oil industry want?

Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad.

www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...

With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand? The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.

Great piece on the current state of play on methane regulations in US by @emdashsanders.bsky.social. After years of foot dragging and obfuscation, oil corps admitted that regulation is necessary to reduce methane pollution. But with Trump in power, hypocrisy ensues www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...

SLAPP’d Episode 5 | Sacred Sites Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

One of the key "defamation" claims Energy Transfer filed against Greenpeace over its involvement with Standing Rock centered on the destruction of sacred sites. In today's @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode we hear the whole story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

In Ohio, oil and gas industry is steering new carbon capture bill Newly obtained public records show that the industry has worked hard to ensure the legislation prioritizes their interests over climate change concerns.

Great work by @kmkowalski.bsky.social & @canarymedia.com on this story showing just how much the O&G industry is running the show in Ohio on CCS. They wrote the bill, wined + dined sponsors, lined up witnesses, etc—even by lobbying standards, this one stands out.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

'The New Wild West:' Inside the Oil & Gas Industry’s Plan to Profit… Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

Watchdog @fieldnotes.co accessed trove of API and OOGA lobby work info to influence four Ohio politicians and write a proposed carbon capture and sequestration law for them. bit.ly/3GI6h1X

Don't they know CCS is a false promise as a climate solution?
Let's ask them.

@kmkowalski.bsky.social

The oil industry is writing its own rules for CCS in Ohio, and lobbyists see “money to made” by reducing oil company responsibilities for carbon sequestration wells. fieldnotes.co/investigatio...

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in fundin...

NEW: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.

Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.

By @annaleighclark.bsky.social