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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Omg I completely forgot to put this in our interview but go subscribe to her newsletter too!!! You won't even realize how much you're learning what with all the good memes disasterology.substack.com

I learned so much from speaking with disaster researcher & expert @samlmontano.bsky.social about emergency management in this era of Trump and climate catastrophe. We talked before Super Typhoon Sinlaku, which is making landfall in the Northern Marianas, long the frontlines of climate change

It’s only April. Preparing for typhoons is not unfamiliar to me but to do so during April … for a super typhoon? The likelihood of a super typhoon developing in the Mariånas in April is historically very low, since peak typhoon season typically runs from August to November.

Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the Louisiana coast. MORE from @garretthazelwood.bsky.social, with @floodlightnews.org @typeinvestigations.org & @veritenews.org

#TheLensNola🔍 In a growing number of Republican-controlled statehouses like Louisiana’s, bills like HB804 propose to immunize polluters from climate liability. ✍ Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews Read full story: buff.ly/aRIRo1o #hb804 #climatelawsuit #oilcompanies #louisiana

Today: "The European Union will soon offer flexibility to companies on both penalties and tracing energy imports to help ensure that its landmark law to tackle methane emissions in fossil fuel imports doesn’t put its supply at risk." financialpost.com/pmn/business...

I did a deeper dive into the red state bills aiming to shield oil companies and other polluters from climate liability. One has already become law. Here's how they work, what they could mean for communities, and why one bill sponsor described his bill as "very confusing"...

many things are awful but you can get borscht in the EV at 3am now and that is important

I did a deeper dive into the red state bills aiming to shield oil companies and other polluters from climate liability. One has already become law. Here's how they work, what they could mean for communities, and why one bill sponsor described his bill as "very confusing"...

NEW: Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated. Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

Europe may think it is importing LNG with low methane intensity, but our investigation shows that may not reflect the reality on the ground

last week I wrote about the gas industry calling on the EU to pause its methane reg so it can keep importing US LNG great reporting by @amywestervelt.bsky.social @nickcunningham.bsky.social @rossimarcello.bsky.social shows the reality of 'certified' US gas that claimed to meet the EU's standards

The LNG we import in Europe is far from clean. Visible methane plumes at US gas sites rated “grade A” resulting in much higher upstream emissions. Auditors don’t measure emissions — they review operator data that studies show is massively understated. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Justin recently said this: "The oil and gas industry 'loves crises from an economic standpoint, but also to force policy changes,' said Justin Mikulka, an energy industry analyst and communications director at the environmental watchdog group, Oilfield Witness." And right on cue...(1/2)

Under Trump, companies now get equal tax credits for using carbon capture to drill for more oil we are gonna be seeing a lot more of this insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202...

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

This is why fossil fuel companies always presented their "targets" linked to the caveat that they can only act as fast as society moves: so that when they successfully lobby for fossil lock-in, they can pretend they're just passively going along with trends www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Under Trump, companies now get equal tax credits for using carbon capture to drill for more oil we are gonna be seeing a lot more of this insideclimatenews.org/news/2803202...