Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air #Pollution Laws: Report @sharonkelly.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...

Important piece from @desmog.com‘s @rtakver.bsky.social!

The Trump administration's "climate working group" produced a report full of errors, typos, and climate denial talking points, according to a new review by upwards of 100 climate experts led by @andrewdessler.com. @sharonkelly.bsky.social and @ejgertz.bsky.social report for @desmog .

Big tech and big oil say AI can help cut climate-changing pollution.🌍 Meanwhile, they're mostly using AI to drill more oil🛢️, while handing it the keys to the ⚡ power grid. My latest, for @desmog.com, on the race to use AI for fossil fuels underneath the greenwashing: www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

Sometimes it's hard to grasp the scale of data center projects and the amount of power they might use. Here's one attempt to explain that for a proposed project in a rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. There's a public hearing on it Tuesday www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...

Phenomenal reporting from @desmog.com’s Edward Donnelly. County officials have significant say over data center development — which means lobbyists are now parachuting into rural spots like Coweta County, GA, working to reshape local zoning rules to benefit big tech www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...

Tech bros love to say AI will fix climate change but oil companies are mostly using it to drill for more oil. @sharonkelly.bsky.social was at an industry event where a Shell exec said 'about 70 percent of our technology effort' is on fossil fuel production. www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

There is so much to unpack here: agentic AI operating without human oversight, AI running on fossil fuels also acquiring those fuels, the probability of AI being the cause of a natural disaster and the liability issues. #AI #Environment #Climate www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

“Just 14 percent of oil and gas producers said they use AI for emissions monitoring, leak detection, and other environmental tools, IBM’s survey found. Twice as many (28 percent) reported using AI for oil and gas drilling” More on how Big Oil uses AI, from @desmog www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

The LNG industry is also working to weaken the methane regulation, which may be one of the few policies of oversight on the US gas industry left (with Trump blowing up all domestic regulation) Europe at risk of weakening its own rules under American pressure, locking in dependency on one supplier

U.S. LNG lobbying aimed at weakening EU methane rules gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

States have legal duty to stop producing and using fossil fuels, top UN court rules Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

American natural gas industry will find it "very, very challenging" to meet Europe's methane pollution standards, Center for LNG says. More on the push to undercut Europe's climate rules to make room for US natural gas, including talk of reducing fines to $1, here: www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/a...

Fun fact: Chris Wright is former CEO of oil company Liberty Energy and ex-director of oil & gas lobby group Western Energy Alliance. Not mentioned by @economist.com Heatwave is a weird time to publish climate denial from a fossil fuel lobbyist www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u... @desmog.com

As Woodside moves forward on Louisiana LNG project (formerly Driftwood LNG), Australian unions & activists warn company's accidents are mounting. "We’ve had a number of incidents, a number of near-misses, a number of injuries" says union organizer Doug Heath. "It’s the worst it’s been in 20 years"

As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data - DeSmog www.desmog.com/2025/06/11/a...

Hilarious to me that oil execs are privately freaking out about the Trump administration's chaos. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has more in @desmog.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...

Anonymous survey shows Big Oil knows the truth. While they publicly cheer Trump's chaos, privately they’re sounding the alarm: The president's unstable leadership is bad for their bottom line — and, ultimately, our planet. Read the full story from @sharonkelly.bsky.social: loom.ly/Ikkblxg

That “burdensome” environmental red tape oil lobbyists hate? Turns out it might be pretty small potatoes (most drillers estimated costs<$1.99/bbl) — especially compared to “chaos”and “uncertainty” of Trump trade moves, Dallas Fed survey of oil and gas execs suggests www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...

Interior nominee Doug Burgum hosted a large number of oil, gas and coal execs for dinner in the after hours of an oil conference in May. Great work by @fldnotes.bsky.social obtaining the “VIP Dinner” guest list and other documents. www.desmog.com/2025/01/27/t...

📊 NEW RESEARCH Thousands of tweets from some of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations created an obstructive climate denial echo chamber. @sharonkelly.bsky.social reports: loom.ly/l_M_BTc

"Just six months after announcing its latest discovery in the region, ExxonMobil pulled up its anchors and left Suriname...ExxonMobil’s exit is the latest sign that natural gas is causing big headaches for the international oil companies" Analysis by @sharonkelly.bsky.social: loom.ly/k-BwaBk

Highly recommend @rebeccajohn.bsky.social's investigation, which you can read in full here. She finds "Compelling new evidence shows this pattern of behavior [deny, dismiss, or downplay] was already hardwired into the industry’s DNA by 1955" www.desmog.com/2024/11/12/r...