how is every politician not out there talking about the smoke and their plans to reduce emissions

NEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...

UPDATE: This first-of-its-kind wrongful death case is moving forward after a state court denied oil companies' motions to dismiss this week 🧵 (1/3)

In case you missed it: Exxon's executive counsel is leaving the company to join the U.S. DOJ's newly renamed Energy & Natural Resources division, which lists blocking climate lawsuits against oil and gas majors as a priority. 🫠🫠

The US oil and gas industry and the Trump regime are doing everything they can to "strong-arm the European Commission" into delaying the rollout of the EU's methane-reporting rule. And they are succeeding. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

California just finalized rules for CCS pipelines without distance requirements from communities. Oil companies just have to avoid building near them "as far as practicable" and, if they can't, provide regulators with "vapor dispersion" analyses & training for 1st responders. What could go wrong

"When white moderates complained in similar fashion about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King criticized their 'mythical concept of time' in Why We Can’t Wait. We can’t wait when it comes to climate change, either."

Another carbon capture plant canceled. "Air Products is scrapping plans to develop a multibillion-dollar project in Louisiana that would have produced of hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. The company will take a pretax charge of as much as $2.9 billion." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Public comments are integral to the functioning of democracy. They have been since ancient Athens,” said disinfo expert Samuel Woolley. Now AI-linked platforms generating mass public comments are invading the process, warping local climate politics (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"fossil fuel companies launched sophisticated public relations campaigns to muddy the waters, creating authoritative-looking reports designed to mimic official government science while downplaying the catastrophic threat to marine ecosystems like coral reefs."

The pernicious role of fossil fuel funding of climate research doesn't get any clearer than this: "'Wedges' would likely never have been written without BP’s funding" What $15 million upfront, $56m total, buys you...

Paris court orders TotalEnergies to account for its scope 3 emissions "As Europe swelters under another deadly heatwave, the French court has sent a strong message: fossil fuel companies will be held accountable" said @ecchr.bsky.social's Clara Gonzales insideclimatenews.org/news/2606202...

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Chevron making a lot of public noise about its dirty fossil gas deal to power a Microsoft data centre...

EU bows to lobbyists and Washington, moves to weaken Methane Regulation A leaked draft document shows the European Commission on the verge of scrapping all penalties for violating the Methane Regulation through the end of the decade. gasoutlook.com/analysis/eu-...

after walking 212 miles across Spain I am back! and have returned to a Signal lapse since my computer & phone went out of sync -- if you messaged me there over the past month, please resend 🫥 and send any stories I should see from the past month my way!

Some exciting news: this is the end of ExxonKnews on Substack, but I’ll be launching a new and expanded climate accountability reporting project from Ghost later this year. I'll be offline for the next month, but will check signal/email when I'm back --stay in touch. Much more to come!

Terrific new story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social about the trial of @ndncollective.bsky.social founder Nick Tilsen and the rules of "narrative warfare." Alleen also tracked down all the footage the courts tried to keep out of the public, and it's linked in the piece! drilled.media/news/tilsen

Along with 29 other organizations, we called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Justice Alito's failure to recuse from an oil case where he could profit from its outcome. Senator Durbin said the letter reiterates why the Supreme Court needs to be more transparent with the public.

The chemical lobby is still fighting a NY plastic reduction law because it excludes "chemical recycling," or melting down waste and supposedly turning it into new plastic. The highly polluting tech has mostly failed to work as promised, but it sure does help if you want to keep selling plastic

"How can the Democrats expect to win back the confidence of voters without demonstrating a fighting spirit? And who better to fight than the corporations—from Big Oil to Big Tech—that the Trump administration is allowing to reshape the American landscape and economy without public input or consent?"

I wrote about the debate over whether Democrats should talk about “climate,” which is kind of a nonsensical question, and how it’s sort of like a debate over whether to talk about capitalism newrepublic.com/article/2103...

credit to @mississippitoday.org for for breaking the number of turbines w their story (below) - we’re adding details from the emails that appear to show the company doubling the power capacity at the site between late March and last week

New Zealand is moving to shield companies from being taken to court for climate harms. The push to immunize corporations from climate liability is growing globally. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NEW: i took a look at a chevron power plant designed to power a data center that is asking for a school district tax break in texas — the plant's probable client is microsoft, which made a series of promises around tax breaks in january my dive into tax breaks for data center power:

The oil industry-linked event for more than 150 judges comes as a number of significant lawsuits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages are making their way through the courts.

The final results are in and the winner of the Iran War is... The oil companies.

A few tens of millions to shield an entire industry from potentially hundreds of billions in liability for harming people by changing the climate. Incredible return on investment. Corruption like this should of course be illegal, but it's wild that warping US politics is apparently *so cheap*.

The Trump administration is going to court to stop Minnesota’s climate fraud case against Exxon, API and Koch Industries, stepping in to shield Big Oil from accountability yet again. via ExxonKnews @emdashsanders.bsky.social

ever-accurate these days 🥲 "Two Emilys—Sanders, at ExxonKnews and Atkin at Heated—have grim accounts..." @emorwee.bsky.social thank you for the highlight @billmckibben.bsky.social!! billmckibben.substack.com/p/uncanny-sp...

Two months later: "The European Commission is considering giving fossil fuel companies leeway to avoid penalties under new rules governing the emissions of methane" www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

In late March @emdashsanders.bsky.social wrote this prescient piece which included this quote from @justinmikulka.bsky.social "The oil and gas industry “loves crises from an economic standpoint, but also to force policy changes,” said Justin Mikulka"

Republicans Rep. Harriet Hageman & Sen. Ted Cruz recently introduced legislation that would grant sweeping legal immunity to the fossil fuel industry More on their proposal here - and what Dems in Congress are saying in response www.sierraclub.org/sierra/clima...

The Trump admin is suing Minnesota for trying to enforce its consumer protection law against Exxon, Koch, and the American Petroleum Institute. Almost exactly 2 years ago, Trump promised oil execs favors in exchange for campaign donations

Let's note that not only is this an effort by Trump cronies to block financial accountability for predatory delay, it is itself an attempt at predatory delay, since concern about financial liability for intentional climate destruction has been exerting negative pressure on fossil fuel values.

Your taxpayer dollars going to help some of the wealthiest corporations on the planet avoid accountability -- DOJ sues Minnesota on behalf of Exxon-Mobil, Koch Industries and API to prevent state from recovering damages for climate harms. @emilysanders.bsky.social www.exxonknews.org/p/the-trump-...

something something states rights www.exxonknews.org/p/the-trump-...

The Trump admin is suing Minnesota for trying to enforce its consumer protection law against Exxon, Koch, and the American Petroleum Institute. Almost exactly 2 years ago, Trump promised oil execs favors in exchange for campaign donations

PSA: if you have been trying to reach me last week or this week on my work #, my phone is out of commission, but will be back next week! otherwise, find me by email or signal chat

Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds

Lawmakers who have taken 9.5 million in donations from Big Oil now have a bill to shield the industry from climate laws & lawsuits nationwide. Here's what the bill could do, including preventing states from regulating emissions at all. with @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/this-new-b...

Oil-funded RAGA members also got climate science taken out of a federal reference manual for judges www.exxonknews.org/p/the-top-co... & oil-funded GOP lawmakers have a new bill to kill climate lawsuits, claiming attribution science "“lacks scientific credibility” www.exxonknews.org/p/this-new-b...

Lawmakers who have taken 9.5 million in donations from Big Oil now have a bill to shield the industry from climate laws & lawsuits nationwide. Here's what the bill could do, including preventing states from regulating emissions at all. with @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/this-new-b...

Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls says there are 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands. The data center boom is a “modern-day iteration” of “settler colonialism,” impacts of which include noise pollution, cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion and more.

Had a great time chatting with @yessfun.com about why environmental journalists should be covering crackdowns on protest. www.sej.org/publications...

🚨Rep. Harriet Hageman just introduced a bill in Congress to kill lawsuits and superfund laws that would make oil companies pay for climate damages. The lawmaker's press release features a joint statement from the two largest oil & gas lobby groups in the country. hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Now in addition to Utah, Tennessee has become the second state to prohibit lawsuits against oil and gas companies for climate damages. TN's law just passed yesterday

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