Behind the Organized Assault on Climate Regulation, a Rented Mailbox in a Suburban Texas Strip Mall a new @fieldnotes.co investigation: fieldnotes.co/reporting/ce...

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.

@fieldnotes.co's thread on how the oil & gas industry pushed EPA to rescind the endangerment finding, but is now scared the extreme rollback could leave it vulnerable to "polluter-pays" laws and lawsuits. ⬇️

Crucial point from @grist.org: "API pioneered many of the arguments now wielded against the endangerment finding... Trump’s EPA used many of these same arguments in its proposed endangerment finding repeal, demonstrating how much his deregulatory agenda owes to the oil industry’s work."

Very noteworthy that Exxon is funding Freedom 250, which pushes blatantly political pro-trump messaging in the guise of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the US. XOM teaming up with Prager U, Moms for Liberty and Wall Builders to push "restoring election integrity"... popular.info/p/major-corp...

A group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts are now paying off. The EPA is expected to revoke the endangerment finding, which has underpinned the government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.

"oil and gas methane emissions as measured by MethaneSAT were 50 percent higher than reported in the widely cited Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research and U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory." www.methanesat.org/project-upda...

Come for the free-speech stakes; stay for the part where I find the connection between an otherwise random insurance agent who is the front group’s on-paper president and the high-powered shadow lobbyist behind the elaborate astroturf campaign. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/inside-a-p...

“Energy Transfer is deploying its public relations puppets like GAIN and rallying its fossil fuel allies to amplify its inflammatory rhetoric.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Pipeline giant Energy Transfer secretly funded a front group to influence the North Dakota court in the company's ongoing effort to destroy Greenpeace. The front group is run by infamous dirty tricks PR firm DCI Group. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Incredible reporting by @ericlipton.nytimes.com & @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how oil billionaire Harold Hamm has used his close relationship w/ Trump to enrich himself by gutting environmental regs, giving the O&G industry massive tax breaks, & boosting drilling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

Oil billionaire Harold Hamm's wish list has been fulfilled by Doug Burgum's DOI. Using a ground water study paid for by Hamm's company, Continental, DOI is set to permit thousands of wells in a contested area of Wyoming www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter. David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would ​“crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition. I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

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.

New investigation from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here: fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...

The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.

🚨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...

🚨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...

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...

NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people. The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.

The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...

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.