Last month, the American Petroleum Institute said a top priority would be to stop state climate laws and lawsuits this year. Now, a member of Congress who got $58k from the industry in 2024 is crafting legislation to "tackle" both. www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c... h/t @eenews.bsky.social

As the US govt proclaims that greenhouse gases don't harm human health, I'm remembering my trip to Port Arthur, TX for a @beyondplastics.bsky.social briefing. Oil refineries, petrochemical facilities, & children's playgrounds side by side. Insane rates of asthma and cancer. Absolutely ghoulish

Last month, the American Petroleum Institute said a top priority would be to stop state climate laws and lawsuits this year. Now, a member of Congress who got $58k from the industry in 2024 is crafting legislation to "tackle" both. www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c... h/t @eenews.bsky.social

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

Exxon, Mastercard & Deloitte are spending million$ to promote events supporting Trump and his MAGA-themed birthday party. @juddlegum.bsky.social has the details: popular.info/p/major-corp...

Exxon is dropping law firm Paul Weiss, whose chair just resigned after his ties to Epstein were exposed, from representing the company in at least four climate lawsuits. The firm also cut a deal with the Trump administration last year: www.exxonknews.org/p/exxons-law...

NEW: New companies like Anduril are funding the Kennedy Center since Trump's takeover, while others like Chevron are newly disclosing their donations with Trump as the "honoree." readsludge.com/2026/02/09/c...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

As @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social predicted... Exxon just wants to go in on its own terms.

Update: Brad Karp resigns as Paul Weiss chairman www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Super helpful perspective here on the rising normalization of attacks on protest globally, and what the spectrum of those attacks looks like

I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

🚨 NEW: Michigan says Big Oil didn’t just lie about climate change, but illegally teamed up to kill electric vehicles and clean energy for decades. A literal “capture-and-kill” strategy.

lots of key points worth remembering in this @emorwee.bsky.social piece, which lays out how the fossil fuel industry helped create the conditions for today's authoritarian crackdown on protestors

Woody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein... No, it's not the beginning of a joke.

Late billionaire climate denial funder & oil businessman David Koch making multiple appearances in the files, lots through his apparent friendship w/ publicist Peggy Siegal, who had befriended & helped Epstein reenter society. Epstein in 2015: "where are you? I hope David Koch got your message"

📍 NEW 📍 Using Trump's international chaos, U.S. Big Oil takes the fight overseas: Leaked docs show the American Petroleum Institute targeting Europe’s toughest climate law. Read the latest collaboration between DeSmog and ExxonKnews. buff.ly/ZizCFf3 #EmilySanders

Epstein in a text to Steve Bannon: former Exxon CEO (& then Secretary of State under Trump) Rex Tillerson was "dumb as a rock and lazy as hell"

This is the law firm that defends Exxon against climate deception lawsuits, and also that infamously cut a deal with Trump last year

Michigan's new lawsuit accuses oil companies of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and EVs and ensure that fossil fuels dominated the market. The state is now the 1st to bring a climate case against Big Oil w/ antitrust claims

Top U.S. oil lobby API targets landmark EU climate law, policy document shows www.exxonknews.org/p/top-us-oil... Really great reporting from @emdashsanders.bsky.social

“Top U.S. oil lobby API targets landmark EU climate law, policy document shows" by @emdashsanders.bsky.social for ExxonKnews: www.exxonknews.org/p/top-us-oil... #ScienceUnderSiege

The US oil lobby will target the EU's landmark climate regs in 2026, per its new policy agenda. But US oil cos have already been leveraging Trump and trade tensions to tear apart the law behind the scenes, documents show. My latest with @desmog.com www.exxonknews.org/p/top-us-oil...

The photo of the 5-year-old who was arrested by ICE has been circulating on the internet. Here is a story we recently did about the growing number of children being put into ICE detention and what the face, to provide larger context. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists were frustrated by a piece in the Guardian earlier this week that seemed to call into question the science on microplastics in the body. I wrote about why researchers are certain microplastics are in the human body -- and what we still don't know: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

New from @hmnorthey.bsky.social: the DOE is planning to transfer money set aside for carbon capture tech to revive coal plants from the dead. When I said carbon capture was being used to keep the fossil fuel industry alive I hadn't quite imagined this lol subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

“If these cases are as frivolous as the oil companies’ briefs pretend, then why in the world are you busting your butt to get a declaration of immunity from Congress?”

A top priority for the U.S. oil lobby in 2026 will be trying to put an end to state laws and lawsuits that could make fossil fuel companies pay billions for their role in the climate crisis. It was happening behind the scenes, but now it's officially laid out in API's new policy agenda:

Trump Admin has now proposed to speed permitting process for large projects, incl oil/gas pipelines & AI facilities, by reducing states’ & tribes’ authority to approve, limit or reject, federal permits for projects that will pollute waterways. insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...

“NO ONE IS PROUD OF YOU!”

Just as state officials introduce new bills to shield oil companies from liability, Big Oil's major trade association has declared stopping climate lawsuits a major priority for the industry. Random coincidence? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Last week, oil companies said they didn't have advance notice on Venezuela & didn't actually know if they wanted in. American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers on Venezuela in a keynote speech today: "Energy strength doesn’t happen by chance. It is a choice." 🤔 www.api.org/-/media/File...

API today unveiled its 2026 policy agenda One of its top priorities is stopping state climate liability laws and lawsuits #BigOil #climateliability

Congress just dropped a provision that would've barred D.C.'s climate lawsuit against oil giants. www.eenews.net/articles/rep... But Big Oil's allies haven't given up on shielding the industry: new bills in UT and OK would block climate liability cases www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

....Did anyone actually listen to Woods' statement?? Woods specifies it's "uninvestable" *today*, lays out a series of changes that would be needed to make investable, and then says "We're confident that with this administration and President Trump....those changes can be put in place

SCOOP: An expert who appeared on Fox News multiple times to defend Trump's attack on Venezuela works for a think tank backed by MAGA oil billionaire Paul Singer. Singer bought the US arm of a Venezuelan oil company in November and is now set to cash in huge. www.desmog.com/2026/01/12/a...

A deep dive into how Chevron maneuvered alongside the Trump administration — and how that strategy left it uniquely positioned after last weekend’s U.S. strike. As the only U.S. oil major still operating in Venezuela, CEO Mike Wirth says, “we play a long game.” Here’s what that looks like ↓

from my understanding of the ICE Watch group that's formed in my Long Island hometown, yes

"If the greatest lie the devil ever told was to convince us that he wasn’t real, the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us is to convince us that they don’t want oil" @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social interviewed by @emdashsanders.bsky.social, on the fossil fuel industry's latest big lies:

Big Oil has distanced itself from the raid in Venezuela, and people are buying that they might not actually want in. Huge thanks to journalist @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social, an expert in wars fought over oil, for talking with me about what's actually going on here. for ExxonKnews & @levernews.com

this is a really good overview of the oil company side of the politics of the USA actions in Venezuela. it goes against the prevailing narrative in significant ways.

read @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social and on how Venezuela is about oil and imperialism www.exxonknews.org/p/on-venezue...

“If the greatest lie the devil ever told was to convince us that he wasn’t real, the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us is to convince us that they don’t want oil.” This @emdashsanders.bsky.social interview with @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social is a must-read

Why are all of these oil industry "leaders" refusing to go on the record? If they really don't want Venezuela's oil, why won't they own it? And why is everyone granting anonymity to representatives of an industry known for lying?

Big Oil has distanced itself from the raid in Venezuela, and people are buying that they might not actually want in. Huge thanks to journalist @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social, an expert in wars fought over oil, for talking with me about what's actually going on here. for ExxonKnews & @levernews.com