Writing in the climate-sceptic Sunday Telegraph, UK's Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is all in on "Drill Baby Drill" An all-you-can-eat buffet of half-truths, falsehoods and magical thinking

Most plastics, chemicals, artificial fertilisers, pesticides & synthetic fabrics are made from fossil fuels & they emit pollution throughout their life cycle, from extraction to processing to use & disposal. Fossil fuels give birth to so many major pollution sources.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

🧑‍⚖️ The trial of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Nigerian minister for petroleum resources, kicked off in London today. She stands accused of awarding government contracts worth millions to high-profile businessmen in return for bribes whilst she sat at the helm of Nigeria’s booming oil industry.

SO MANY people are promoting this, come on

🔴 NEW 🔴 More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners. www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m... 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇

AI’s soaring power demand is being used to justify new gas/coal plants “cleaned” by CCS. Track record: 88% failures, big costs, bigger delays. With #COP30, close CCS/offset loopholes and align NDCs with 1.5°C. Read: bit.ly/4pgcG55 Let's not power tomorrow’s AI with yesterday’s fuels.

Oil & gas companies sure get lots of access to Carney's ministers.... Follow the @fedlobbot.bsky.social for updates on how much lobbying is happening

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Spring 2026 Legal Internship (Climate & Energy – Geneva) at CIEL. 🌍 Calling future environmental lawyers! 🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025 🔗 cielorg.bamboohr.com/careers/117?... Join a team working at the intersection of #HumanRights, #ClimateJustice, and international law.

They’ll take part in two critical workshops: 🔹 “Investigating false solutions: geoengineering and desalination plants” 🔹 “Climate litigation in the age of misinformation” They aim to equip journalists with tools to expose greenwashing, track false climate fixes, and navigate legal battles.

Next Friday in Budapest, CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social and @barnabypace.bsky.social join journalists and scientists at #ClimateArena2025 - an inspiring working conference by @journalismarena.eu to strengthen climate reporting across Europe. 📍 Corvinus University, Budapest 🗓️ October 10

ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US. ⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them. 📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board ☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w

⚠️ More than half of all fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. 🛢️ The result? A system that harms our health, drives climate change, and threatens food security. 🍽️ It’s time to rethink what’s on our plates. 👇 Learn more about the frack-to-fork supply chain.

Insurance math: 🔥 Communities hit by floods + fires = uninsurable. 🏭 Polluters driving disasters = cash + coverage. As we brace for hurricane season, @ellejurca.bsky.social, @barnabypace.bsky.social & ‪‪@cslidders.bsky.social‬ make it clear: the system is broken.

The Gulf Coast — home to more than 84% of US plastics’ production and nearly half of US petroleum refining capacity — is bracing for more than five major hurricanes predicted for the Atlantic Ocean this year, all while federal protections are rolled back. Latest from @ellejurca.bsky.social and me.

I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now

🛢️ Trump's EPA is helping Big Oil while communities pay the price. @ciel.org's analysis reveals companies lobbying millions to gut pollution rules are the same ones expanding toxic facilities at newly exempt sites. Read more:

❌ Plastics Treaty not for sale! Oil producing countries want to sell out the #PlasticsTreaty to the fossil fuel lobby! We can’t let them! Watch and share the video to demand world leaders to step up and deliver a strong treaty that cuts plastic production! www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty

⚠️ Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have flooded #PlasticsTreaty talks at a record high. They're working with petrostates to distract, delay, and drag the treaty toward the lowest common denominator. #KickPollutersOut #INC5-2 👉 Read more: bit.ly/41wUn1L

Did you know the plastic industry is Making Oil Great Again? 🛢️🤑🛢️ But “Drill Baby Drill” doesn’t have to be the future for plastic (99% of which is made of oil or gas) or the planet! 🎥 Watch & check out @Greenpeaceuk’s new report www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...

Tyre-wear particles are a major source of microplastics that harm the environment. The good news? Prevention and mitigation can help to #BeatPollution. Explore more from this online brief: www.unep.org/resources/em...

There is no escape from #Microplastic and #Nanoplastics, but there's #inequality in the impact of this, as all of the other impacts of the #FossilFuel profiteers #PlasticsTreaty

Great to see @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social take up the issue of fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbying at the plastics treaty talks including our @ciel.org finding of 220 lobbyists at INC5. www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-l...

Memes I never thought I'd have to make....

The irony on top is politico carrying adverts for Equinor about "oil and gas powering the energy transition" and a brand survey for fossil fuel companies around their reporting.

🚨UK TAX HAVENS MISS TRANSPARENCY DEADLINE🚨 UK offshore financial centres have failed to comply with the deadline for ending corporate secrecy, enabling dirty money to stay hidden in the UK. This undermines the UK's anti-corruption efforts and weakens national security. More in @theguardian.com ⤵️

It’s so important to understand WHY the new Senate bill has such drastic provisions to kill renewable energy Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

Thrilled to be moderating this panel of badass women journalists. Join us! (open to the public on Zoom) @amywestervelt.bsky.social @democracynow.org and more BREAKTHROUGH JOURNALISM: STRATEGIES FOR COVERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS. June 28, 2025. 2pm ET #WECAN www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assem...

with the final round of UN plastic treaty negotiations in 4 weeks time, we've written a short piece that sets out the concept of a 'petrochemical historical bloc' to reveal the depth and extent of forces opposing strong global governance of plastic

With @ciel.org's @erikalennon.bsky.social: "It is long past time for a conflict of interest policy. You wouldn’t let the tobacco companies write the rules on public health or the gun manufacturers writing rules on gun control." #KickBigPollutersOut of the UN Climate Talks, NOW!

Last week the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights produced its report on the UK's 2024 election with a specific section on campaign finance. And made a series of weighty recommendations along the lines that others have recommended for years🧵 www.osce.org/files/f/docu...

On the eve of "NO KINGS" day, some advice for journalists on how to cover protests (and how not to.) presswatchers.org/2025/06/how-...

Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Such an important project tracking a toxic disaster at a sprawling petroleum refinery. Accidents like this often go unscrutinized but this series showed the importance of digging in. 👏👏👏 @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @sarasneath.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

"The pollution metaphor is apt because it captures the chaotic and toxic nature of today’s information landscape, which is controlled by a handful of powerful companies that commodify attention and inundate our feeds with “AI slop”" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

Trump wants to shut down the Chemical Safety Board which has a unique role investigating chemical plant incidents. The result: more chemical releases, worker deaths and community pollution. All to save $14 million. And to make the chemical industry happy www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🚨 NEW STORY 🚨 Did you know the US's most powerful oil trade group sponsored the Girl Scouts USA as "nontraditional local allies" useful in the battle over policy issues? or that BP funded Ford's Theatre to access "Members of Congress, the Administration"? Internal company documents tell all ...

New commentary with colleagues from @ciel.org @greenpeace.org and @scientistscoa.bsky.social on the UN global plastics treaty and corporate capture We highlight power imbalances in negotiations, and suggest ways to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of a future treaty

This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes. /1

Brilliant achievement! Now MPs must consider the petition for a debate in Parliament - it couldn’t be more urgent to stop fossil fuel ads creating a social licence of trust & acceptability

Breaking: Three people were killed and two others injured in an accident at a #LNG plant under construction in Texas on Tuesday, according to the lead contractor Bechtel. The fatal incident occurred at Sempra's (SRE.N) Port Arthur LNG construction site, according to Bechtel. c/o Reuters

"The only way this establishment thinking can be routed... is by improving accountability and giving greater force to the FOI Act and the EIRs" Terrific piece by @davidallengreen.bsky.social about Democracy for Sale's information battle w/ARIA www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

Also - a reminder that the opposition to heat pumps has been manufactured by gas industry lobbyists

The right-wing press has spread a load of baseless falsehoods about heat pumps. That’s the main reason why the technology is politically ‘controversial’. By banning Evan Davis from doing a podcast about heat pumps, the BBC is dancing to the tune of people pushing out blatant misinformation

Industry harassment works www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/r...

Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph