My latest for CCR and Rolling Stone ⬇️

Latest for @climatereport.bsky.social w/ Rolling Stone I wrote about a US agency you've probably never heard of and the quiet work it's doing to lay the groundwork for Trump's vision of American energy dominance globally

NEW | How a small US government agency is planning to push US gas to emerging markets around the world, as part of Trump's energy dominance agenda. climate-reporting.org/ustda-plan-f...

ICYMI ✍️ I guest edited a newsletter for my alma mater @tbij.bsky.social the other week, looking at the impact of our work digging into COP28 conflicts of interest ⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!

Transparency International and 250+ other organisations calling for "dramatic overhaul" of COP negotiations to protect them from the influence of high polluting industries

NEW by me for @climatereport.bsky.social / @theguardian.com Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections

🎙️ ICYMI I was on Living on Earth talking about @climatereport.bsky.social's story with The Guardian on how US officials have been skipping climate meetings under Trump. 🔈 Listen here! www.loe.org/shows/segmen... Working in international climate diplomacy? My Signal is benstockton.01

NEW | US officials appear to have missed a number of climate meetings since Trump took office, marking a potentially significant shift from his first term. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Story by @benrst.bsky.social & @theguardian.com

US officials appear to have missed a number of climate meetings since Trump took office. Surprising? Perhaps not, but it marks a potentially significant shift from his first term. NEW by me for CCR and The Guardian today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Extinction Rebellion protesting outside McKinsey UK HQ after our story with the Guardian last year which dug into the extent of the firms work boosting fossil fuels worldwide. Five arrested so far, XR says. Read it here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Heritage Foundation in 2016: "Musk and his companies (Tesla, among others) have had their share and benefitted from an array of government handouts in the forms of government loans and special tax breaks, all without any say from the taxpayer."

Musk: "The federal loan was very helpful... what the government loan really did was accelerate our progress." www.energy.gov/sites/prod/f...

Heritage Foundation in 2025: "We're celebrating at Heritage the first phases of the unearthing of the grift and corruption that has happened in this city... having someone with the success of Elon Musk be a partner in this is really good." www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

More on McKinsey and its climate pretenses. Go Guardian.

REVEALED | Internal McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust global climate goals. "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming... this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🚨NEW🚨 "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming trajectory… this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." Internal 2021 McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust climate goals www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels

NEW | @hajmedd.bsky.social and I spent the last several months digging into McKinsey's work with its fossil fuel clients. Here's our story with the Guardian, ft. Koch Industries, China and a controversial Saudi government program to hook poor countries on oil www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NEW: @amywestervelt.bsky.social and I dug into the PR machine that has worked with Al Jaber throughout his career and ultimately helped put an oil boss in charge of COP climate-reporting.org/al-jaber-cop...