"The Washington law firm of Covington & Burling took the case pro bono. But expenses were also covered by a small group of bankers, oilmen and industrialists who appear in the archives of the lead plaintiff, Senator James L. Buckley of New York" gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Congrats to #Florida reporter @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, whose work blowing the lid off the Epstein scandal just won a special citation from this year's Pulitzer judges. www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...

NEW: Trump diverted >9,100 FBI personnel to work on immigration during the first 9 months of this term, per public records I obtained. He multiplied them by a factor of 23 - from 279 before he took office to >6500 by September. theintercept.com/2026/05/01/f...

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the Louisiana coast. MORE from @garretthazelwood.bsky.social, with @floodlightnews.org @typeinvestigations.org & @veritenews.org

People want to ride bikes

Who is responsible for retracting fraudulent science? Our latest: reckoningscience.org/everybodys-b...

No matter how high the price of oil climbs, the actual price is far, far higher

Normal people: I hate to be the one to tell you this Reporters: I went to journalism school to be the one to tell you this

infuriating must-read piece by my colleague @alexcuadros.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.

Do you ever look at the edges of your chipped nail polish and think they look like tiny eroding coasts? The way the polish pulls back from the edges of the nail resembles how water eats away at land over time

Cutting 11 journalists and doing it in the style of your newsletters 😳

how are you even qualified to judge whether JAMA of all things is biased towards a particular therapy beyond the word of clinicians, who have arrived at a very firm consensus on this specific topic? appalling arrogance

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

""for the companies well-positioned to make the most of suddenly rising natural gas prices, “it’s a gold rush,” Williams-Derry said. “I’ve often described the oil and gas industry’s financial strategy as ‘pray for war,’” he said. “That is how they make money.”" insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week Here's our interview:

New data centers could double one utility’s electricity load – with power from coal. But key details are blacked out. Should ratepayers be worried?

Little debby cakes are also incredible if you need a fast sugar hit on like a long bike ride. They also taste much better and are way cheaper than gu

Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups. Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency. The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.

What can you do with a history degree?

I was not expecting Bad Bunny to celebrate the work of linemen during halftime but I'm here for it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure foreign investors.

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature. This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities. Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee. ecori.org/the-usual-su...

No one told me how many WhatsApp groups it would take to have a social life in Miami

The Trump FBI raided the author's home today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.' drilled.media/news/Venezue...

You might want to sit down for this, but the panel that just idiotically told Americans to eat more beef and dairy, for their health, might have had conflicts of interest www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

How is academia intertwined with the fossil industry? What does this mean for academic freedom and the climate transition? Browse the interactive report of the Dutch Mapping Fossil Ties Coalition. Search your favourite fossil company, university or just flip through! mappingfossilties.org/report

A new report from @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social documents oil spills, gas releases and climate pollution at Energy Transfer’s web of pipelines nationwide. The company and its affiliates have reported 300 spills & 126 gas releases since 2018. @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

Venture Global founders and co-chairs under scrutiny for buying millions in shares after meeting with senior Trump officials, who approved a key export license that will allow the LNG company's expansion in Europe to move forward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

A really nice analysis of the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Lots of excellent data-packed figures.

Cool opportunity for college students! And it's paid 🤑

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Sign up for the next research cohort digging into fossil fuel ties at U.S. universities with the Campus Climate Network and CAL! Over 12 weeks students investigative Big Oil's presence on their campuses. And, you get a training on public records requests from yours truly. 🤓 tinyurl.com/yntpr2ha

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An influential Greek cardiologist who has helped shaped the global debate on vaping was paid thousands of euros from ecig giant Juul via an offshore company he co-owns, myself, @ebersi.bsky.social and @stephanehorel.bsky.social can reveal www.theexamination.org/articles/juu...

That combination of high winds and creeping progress makes Melissa both unusual and unusually dangerous. Over the next day or so, the storm is on track to hammer Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and parts of the Bahamas with catastrophic flash flooding, destructive winds, and damaging waves.

One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain