if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time "I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.” gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...

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!

Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.

Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?

Thing is, it's NOT paying off, as the last half of the article details. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?

Big oil corporations want the Trump EPA to keep the veneer of methane regulation while gutting provisions that require real transparency and accountability (like third party reporting on super emitter events and the methane fee). Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:

Put another way: $1 of every $7 MAGA Inc has brought in this year came from Kelcy Warren and Energy Transfer.

The EPA could repeal methane regs entirely -- but what does the oil industry want? Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad. www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...

Great piece on the current state of play on methane regulations in US by @emdashsanders.bsky.social. After years of foot dragging and obfuscation, oil corps admitted that regulation is necessary to reduce methane pollution. But with Trump in power, hypocrisy ensues www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...

One of the key "defamation" claims Energy Transfer filed against Greenpeace over its involvement with Standing Rock centered on the destruction of sacred sites. In today's @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode we hear the whole story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

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...

Watchdog @fieldnotes.co accessed trove of API and OOGA lobby work info to influence four Ohio politicians and write a proposed carbon capture and sequestration law for them. bit.ly/3GI6h1X Don't they know CCS is a false promise as a climate solution? Let's ask them. @kmkowalski.bsky.social

The oil industry is writing its own rules for CCS in Ohio, and lobbyists see “money to made” by reducing oil company responsibilities for carbon sequestration wells. fieldnotes.co/investigatio...

NEW: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

“Doug the Diva” Burgum used a U.S. Park Police helicopter to avoid a 30-40 min drive to Air Force One. Interior said the helo was necessary bc Burgum “was slated to staff POTUS for a trip over the Gulf of America.” That trip over the “Gulf of America”? It was to the Super Bowl.

Big Oil encouraged Republicans to nuke the filibuster to get this done. Here’s API’s Mike Sommers telling Sen. Thune, “We would highly encourage you to look at [the California rule] as an option for the CRA. And we believe that you can do it,” in January: youtu.be/sqtLs3YJ1CU?...

"Changing the AMT for oil producers was a pillar of AXPC’s internal plan for dismantling Biden-era climate policies, which was disclosed by The Washington Post in October." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

One of the most irritating dynamics that came out of Manchin's year-plus of obstructing Dem energy policy is that the DC elites have decided he's an energy policy expert rather than a fucking dimwit repeating lines he heard from corporate lobbyists on his yacht.

It's here! Go listen to the first episode of our new podcast season SLAPP'd, about the Energy Transfer v Greenpeace case and the long and aggressive backlash to the Standing Rock protests, reported & hosted by @alleenbrown.bsky.social push.fm/fl/drilled Transcript: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

We’re hiring a lawyer to help defend our public records work. Deets: energyandpolicy.org/public-recor...

Kathleen Sgamma abruptly withdrew her candidacy for director of the BLM today. I covered why her loyalty to Trump came into question, and how it may have been her downfall. insideclimatenews.org/news/1004202...

🧵1/ Kathleen Sgamma, Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Land Management, wrote in 2021 she was "disgusted" by Trump's role "spreading misinformation" on Jan. 6, accusing him of "dishonoring the vote of the People," per a memo to oil execs obtained by @documented.net. Her Senate hearing is Thursday.

Kate MacGregor is in line to return to a top job at the department. Public records indicate she concealed information regarding Harold Hamm and other oil heavyweights the first time around. via @fieldnotes.co by @jessebcoleman.bsky.social

Kate MacGregor, known for competently executing orders from oil lobbyists, has her confirmation hearing for the #2 spot at Interior today. New research shows she successfully hid public records regarding oil billionaire Harold Hamm during Trump 1.0 fieldnotes.substack.com/p/the-oil-in...

🚨 NEW from @fieldnotes.co: Kate MacGregor, a top nominee at Interior, participated in systematically concealing public records during Trump’s 1st term. substack.com/app-link/pos...

DOI halted a Biden program that plugged wells abandoned by the oil industry. Oil comps should be paying to clean up their own mess, but halting the program leaves in place both the polluting wells and the system that allows the oil industry to abandon unwanted wells. www.hcn.org/articles/tru...

wow, massive, frightening repercussions here apnews.com/article/gree...

Verdict in on energy transfer v greenpeace. Jury found Greenpeace Inc guilty on almost all counts. ET lawyer estimated total damages for Inc, Fund and International around $700 million. (Total still to be confirmed)

At CERAweek, the CEO of pipeline giant Williams Co said the oil industry has the tools to reduce methane emissions, but "We just haven't been required in the past to do it." Meanwhile the CRA revoking the methane fee, a penalty for methane emissions, was signed on Friday.

As I sit here covering this Energy Transfer lawsuit against Greenpeace, Pennsylvania is forcing the company to supply bottled water to a community after a pipeline leaked jet fuel for 16 MONTHS before anyone figured it out. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace DAY 10: As Energy Transfer wrapped its arguments, a juror disclosed work for a fossil fuel company that owns a minority interest in the Dakota Access Pipeline Read on in my newsletter Eco Files alleenbrown.ghost.io/special-seri... and plz consider a paid subscription

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The oil industry's infamous dirty tricks PR Firm, DCI Group, paid an Israeli contractor $16 million(!!) to hack targets on behalf of Exxon and other clients. DCI also worked for Energy Transfer, whose SLAPP suit (in court this week) will likely destroy Greenpeace USA. www.wsj.com/business/who...

An Energy Transfer (ET) pipeline has been leaking for the last 16 months in PA, contaminating the water wells and soil of multiple homes. ET's CEO was Trump's largest oil donor last election, and is currently prosecuting a SLAPP suit that threatens to destroy Greenpeace. whyy.org/articles/sun...

First the suspension of the SEC climate rule & now a likely "emergency" permit for the Blue Marlin deepwater terminal. Energy Transfer's Kelcy Warren continues to get one heck of a ROI on all that $$$ he spent to help Trump get elected. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/c...

This is a good way to report this, tell us who will benefit from tearing down oversight. Less "Trump kills climate rules" more "Trump's corporate oil backers get what they want." Also corporations should tell us how their business impacts climate (and how climate impacts business) wapo.st/4hFClAt

And at pretty much the same time Zeldin was getting paid to help BlackRock, he was *also* getting paid to write an op-ed on behalf of the right-wing firm that has spent years *attacking* BlackRock: the Leonard Leo-led CRC Advisors. [10/]

More to the point, if the AG’s appeal is successful and the law goes into effect, BlackRock could lose out on a major client: the Okla. Public Employees Retirement System, which had then (+ has now) $7 billion under BlackRock’s management: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... [9/]

The outreach came at a really important time for BlackRock. The Okla. AG had recently vowed to appeal a court ruling that blocked the state’s 2022 anti-ESG law, which would stop the state from doing business with firms like BlackRock. [8/]

BlackRock then used Zeldin’s op-ed to lobby the Okla. AG. Here’s Orrick’s Andrew Cook reaching out to share the op-ed on BlackRock’s behalf as tho its unbiased expert commentary and not what is basically #sponcon: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... [7/]

Zeldin wouldn’t tell Senators the specific op-ed but Newsday archives show only 1 byline for him that day. The op-ed is an anomaly in the ESG genre: It’s both anti-ESG and pro-BlackRock. [6/]

Let’s follow the paper trail, shall we: Zeldin disclosed in his ethics filing that he was paid $10K to publish an op-ed in Newsday this past summer [5/]

Making this even more awkward for Zeldin: As he was boosting BlackRock, he was *also* getting paid by the right-wing firm leading the campaign *against* BlackRock over its ESG efforts. 😬 [4/]

The shadowy campaign pushed back against a right-wing threat to BlackRock’s bottom line. The officials being lobbied had the power to affect $billions under BlackRock’s control. [3/]

Zeldin’s role was obscured by BlackRock + two lobby shops, making it look like the former congressman was sharing his purported expertise in his local paper. In reality, he was getting paid to help BlackRock sway state officials halfway across the country. [2/]

🚨NEW @fieldnotes.co investigation: EPA chief Lee Zeldin was paid to take part in an off-the-books lobbying campaign last year on behalf of BlackRock, aka MAGA’s most-hated financial firm. Here’s the 🧵w/ the 🧾s