Small #FOIA win: @fieldnotes.co obtained EPA HQ visitor logs that have more info than the logs publicly available on EPA’s website. You can check out the logs here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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@alexcuadros.bsky.social's new investigation for @propublica.org is fantastic. It's got everything: ➡️ On-the-ground reporting from the oilfield! ➡️ Behind-the-scenes industry mtgs w/ admin officials! ➡️ FOIA records from @fieldnotes.co! 😆 Take some time to read the whole thing—it's well worth it!

NEW: A @propublica.org investigation—featuring records obtained by @fieldnotes.co—reveals EPA is about to wipe out methane regulations on stripper wells. This will especially benefit billionaire Trump backer Jeffery Hildebrand, who owns one of the most polluting oil & gas companies in the country.

A new report co-authored with @publiccitizen.bsky.social shines light on the first Trump admin's DOI Secretary David Bernhardt, a long-time lobbyist for oil & gas, mining, and big ag interests, and the stronghold he still has on the department. Read it here: www.citizen.org/article/retu...

New @houstonchronicle.com story explores the growing push to reuse "produced water" from oilfields for data center cooling — a proposal that supporters say could help address both Texas' water shortages and the oil industry's mounting wastewater disposal problem.

New @houstonchronicle.com story explores the growing push to reuse "produced water" from oilfields for data center cooling — a proposal that supporters say could help address both Texas' water shortages and the oil industry's mounting wastewater disposal problem.

Public Domain + @fieldnotes.co's investigation was written up in the POLITICO Influence newsletter yesterday:

🚨New from Public Domain + Fieldnotes: When fracking billionaire Harold Hamm’s company, Continental, wanted to drill in Wyoming, it handed federal officials a “roadmap” for how to get around a court injunction blocking new permits and issue them anyway. 🧵: www.publicdomain.media/p/emails-sho...

🚨New from Fieldnotes and Public Domain: Emails show that Harold Hamm’s Continental wanted the Bureau of Land Management to sign off on new wells in Wyoming, despite a court injunction there. The agency obliged. www.publicdomain.media/p/emails-sho...

Aaron Szabo, the official leading EPA efforts to weaken methane rules, once helped write the oil industry's arguments against said rules. Emails show he's now working closely with industry groups to gut federal climate policy. That's textbook regulatory capture. @propublica.org: bit.ly/4m1DxkG

Big Soda and Big Oil want us hooked on plastic. Together, they're working in lockstep to stop "any cap on plastics production," and make sure that efforts to meaningfully address the plastic pollution crisis fail. @joshvoorhees.bsky.social of @fieldnotes.co and @davisallen.bsky.social explain.

🚨There’s been a lot going on, so you may have missed the @politico.com investigation based on Fieldnotes research revealing how an obscure non-profit w/ deep ties to the far right, oil & gas corps, and the Trump admin is helping to stamp out the foundation of climate policy. bit.ly/3PzH11z 🧵

ICYMI: Groups have already sued over the endangerment finding. Be sure to check out our previous posts pointing out who was behind the effort to begin with and what it means for oil & gas trade groups like API.

In EPA’s press release on the endangerment finding, API praises the agency’s tailpipe rule repeal, but notably doesn’t mention that EPA just killed the finding that underpins nearly all U.S. climate regs. Weird, right? Unless API is scared the extreme rollback might backfire...

The endangerment finding is EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, which is what legally *requires* the federal government to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. It’s the foundation of U.S. climate regulation.

New from @rollingstone.com: Documents show industry and regulators knew *decades* ago that injecting toxic liquid waste from oil drilling underground wasn't safe...yet it’s still being dumped below communities nationwide. bit.ly/4aOvoMt

This week’s @nytimes.com story on how ultra-conservative activists plotted to wipe out federal climate regs included this doc, obtained by Fieldnotes. It's a confidential proposal seeking $2 million for a secret effort to draft regs and assemble an “arsenal" of climate denial. Full proposal here:

Via @grist.org: grist.org/politics/tru...

A Popular Information investigation by @juddlegum.bsky.social finds corporate players of interest in the upcoming 250th celebrations coming up later this year. 🧵: popular.info/p/major-corp...

The oil industry is 🩴🩴-ing & 🧇-ing on endangerment—despite putting the reversal in motion almost 20 years ago. @juliakane.bsky.social & I explain why in HEATED. Spoiler: industry is spooked—not about our health, about their $$$. heated.world/p/trump-is-w... > @fieldnotes.co + @emorwee.bsky.social

New collaboration by @fieldnotes.co and @emorwee.bsky.social of HEATED. The endangerment finding is set to be revoked this Thursday by the Trump administration. Oil majors should be happy, right? Read the story here: https://heated.world/cp/187577268

New investigation out today by @nytimes.com highlighting the four Trump administration veterans working behind the scenes to gut climate regulations. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html

I spoke with @baptlanglois.bsky.social at @lexpress.fr (a French news magazine) for this story on oil billionaire Harold Hamm's influence on Trump.

ICYMI: @fieldnotes.co + @drilledmedia.bsky.social teamed up for a new investigation into Energy Transfer, the DCI Group, and a decade-old front group that went from manipulating the press to trying to influence the ND Supreme Court: open.substack.com/pub/fieldnot...

One man that keeps showing up in Energy Transfer’s pipeline: Craig Stevens. He appears on panels, writes op-eds and even shows up in sponsored content. What’s missing? 👉He’s a VP at DCI Group 👉DCI was hired by Energy Transfer 👉Energy Transfer funds the group he speaks for

Energy Transfer has its own make-believe “friend": New from the @nytimes.com w/ a little help from @fieldnotes.co: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

🚨New from the @nytimes.com, with research from @fieldnotes.co: Energy Transfer is using an astroturf group run by a powerful DC shadow lobbying firm to block a first-of-its-kind countersuit in the Netherlands. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

In his own words, here’s how oil billionaire Harold Hamm orchestrated fracking exec Chris Wright’s rise to lead the Dept of Energy. As Energy Sec, Wright has published a report denying climate science (which EPA is using to axe climate regs), boosted fossil fuels, & slashed funding for renewables.

Harold Hamm—the billionaire behind Continental Resources and one of Trump’s biggest supporters—has gotten major favors from the Trump administration. Here’s our analysis of this great story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com and @nytimes.com. nyti.ms/4pApnYY

Have you ever had a bad neighbor? The kind that makes you sick, literally? Big Oil company Energy Transfer is all of our neighbors. Their long history of spills, explosions, emissions, and safety violations proves that they’re harming communities. Read More: www.greenpeace.org/usa/bad-neig...

@fieldnotes.co found that the oil & gas industry is behind a CCS bill currently moving through the state legislature in Ohio. Last night I presented our research on a webinar with @ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social and @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social. Check it out!

Tune in tonight at 6pm ET to catch our very own @juliakane.bsky.social talk shop with @ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social and @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social. Be there or be square.

"The New Wild West": Inside the Oil & Gas Industry's Push for Carbon Capture & Storage in Ohio On Thurs. Nov. 6 at 6 PM ET, join @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social, @ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social, and @fieldnotes.co for a webinar and Q&A on CCS in Ohio. Sign up here: bit.ly/new-wild-west

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.

MAGA vs MAHA, brought to you by Coke & Pepsi—and a GOP network of paid influencers, shadowy pollsters, and well-connected money men.🥤🥸💰 A new investigation by me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨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...

🚨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...

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...

At #ClimateWeekNYC, CCI Political Director Iyla Shornstein (@iylas.bsky.social) joined a panel of experts at Columbia University to discuss the state of fossil fuel accountability. Here are some highlights from that discussion 🧵

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!

Wednesday at #ClimateWeekNYC: "Fossil Fuel Accountability in the Trump Era" Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.

"Over 40 months — from May 2021 to September 2024 — oil companies applied for more than 12,000 flaring and venting permits, while the Railroad Commission rejected just 53 of them, a 99.6% approval rate, according to the data." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

This is awesome work and such an important story.

Bombshell reporting by @propublica.org & @insideclimatenews.org describes massive flaring and venting from Texas oil wells, discrediting the oil & gas industry’s claim that natural gas and LNG are “clean” energy. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

🚨 from Argus Media: @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social ends its membership with AXPC b/c of the group's "aggressive" opposition to environmental regs. This comes after @washingtonpost.com reported on internal docs obtained by @fieldnotes.co exposing AXPC 's efforts. www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

Great reporting from @emdashsanders.bsky.social highlighting the hypocrisy from the oil & gas industry around methane rules. Industry has publicly claimed to support the rules while working behind-the-scenes to weaken measures that would hold them accountable. www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...

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...

A new investigation by @kmkowalski.bsky.social and @canarymedia.com, with documents obtained by Fieldnotes, reveals a coordinated effort by oil lobbyists to write and introduce carbon capture and storage legislation. www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...