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...
Title card reading Energy Transfer Has a Make-Believe 'Friend' along with a photo collage of Kelcy Warren, a gas pipeline, and dollar dollar bills.
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...
Seems like the oil barons purchased domestic energy policy, but probably should have sprung for the premium international energy policy plan.
