The head of Norway's oil fund is going to flip out when someone tells him what fossil fuels do 🧐🧐🧐🧐

💥 The oil/gas industry “publicly underplayed the concerns over methane. And as the natural gas industry faced increasing competition from electric stoves and heaters, industry groups worked on an advertising campaign that highlighted gas as a clean fuel.” Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Article)

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

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Today’s natural gas-dependent world was not inevitable. Big oil and gas have worked hard to create it for over 50 years, deceiving the public about the climate harms of natural gas. Our report exposes this deception for the 1st time. See ⬇️ for a Dirty Dozen of key investigative findings.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

climateintegrity.org

Excellent summary of the findings from our new report published in the NYT yesterday. If you haven't had time to make your way through the full report and 200+ documents uncovered by @rebeccajohn.bsky.social and @rebleber.bsky.social yet, this is a great introduction! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

Great summary by Sarah Hoffman at desmog on new report by Center for Climate Integrity on decades-old misinformation campaign by big oil & gas on natural gas, methane, and climate. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/h...

How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

desmog.com

Our major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org

This CCI report lays out, for the first time, exactly how the oil & gas industry created and pushed the myth of "clean," climate-friendly natural gas—a myth that persists to this day. This is an INCREDIBLE, meticulously-researched resource for anyone who works on climate.

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

Huge investigation out today helmed by @rebleber.bsky.social and @rebeccajohn.bsky.social revealing just how long ago industry knew gas would destroy the climate -- with tons of new details showing how they hid the facts and worked to promote gas as "clean." 👏👏

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

Deeply important work. Thanks to @rebleber.bsky.social and team

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

Chances are you've heard that methane leaks make natural gas worse for the climate than we've been led to believe. And yet many of us still think of gas as the "clean" fossil fuel. That didn't happen by accident.

🚨After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that would give oil and gas companies immunity from any laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis. Time to get loud: 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

Big Soda and Big Oil want us hooked on plastic. Together, they're working in lockstep to stop "any cap on plastics production," and make sure that efforts to meaningfully address the plastic pollution crisis fail. @joshvoorhees.bsky.social of @fieldnotes.co and @davisallen.bsky.social explain.

🚨 Big Oil wants to take away your right to sue fossil fuel companies for the harm they cause. No matter your politics, we should all agree that no industry should be above the law. Say it with us: 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

Dana Drugmand@danad1012.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

NEW: For 25 years, four oil giants sold false climate promises through deceptive ad campaigns. Our report examined 300+ ads from BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell from 2000-2025. Together they push a false narrative that Big Oil is leading climate solutions. In reality, they're fueling catastrophe.

Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads | Center for Climate Integrity

How Four Oil Majors Sold False Promises from 2000-2025

climateintegrity.org

"Advanced recycling” won't solve the plastic waste crisis. As CCI Senior Investigative Researcher @davisallen.bsky.social told @calmatters.org: “Almost any solution that is based on the idea that plastics can widely be recycled just isn’t really going to work.”

A Bay Area startup sold a plastic recycling dream. Neighbors call it just another incinerator

As California writes plastic waste rules that would affect advanced recycling, Resynergi says it will leave for a more welcoming state.

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In most applications, I think use of AI is driven less by the promise of improved outcomes than the capacity to present a choice as authoritative or rational in a way that is beyond criticism. Basically, the idea that because something is derived from AI it must be right.

Discussion around advanced recycling is "driven less by the merits or feasibility" of the technology, and more by Big Oil's need to offer a solution "that doesn’t restrict the exponential growth in plastics production," said CCI's @davisallen.bsky.social during a recent panel w/ @eliorg.bsky.social.

Chemical Recycling: More Pollution? Or a Sustainability Solution for Plastic?

YouTube video by Environmental Law Institute

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A 'maddening' new bombshell report revealing the fraud of plastics recycling. @rebeccajohn.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com on an exclusive document showing the petrochemical industry knew as early as 1974 that recycling was a false solution. www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/m...

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows

Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

desmog.com

“It's further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social @climateintegrity.org New evidence shows DuPont knew 50 years ago recycling "not feasible"

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows

Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

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NEW: The president of one of the world's largest plastics producers acknowledged in 1974 that recycling plastic was "not feasible." It's “further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says @davisallen.bsky.social.

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows

Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

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#PlasticsTreaty #INC5.2 resource--recycling-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/resource...

Researchers: Effective plastic treaty requires production cuts

Scientists from universities in several countries released a paper that concluded production cuts must be part of the legally binding treaty to manage global plastic pollution if it's to achieve its g...

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Big Oil and the plastics industry are misleading the public about "advanced recycling." Even industry insiders concede that it's a false solution to the plastic pollution crisis. CCI's @davisallen.bsky.social breaks down his latest investigation in @commondreams.org 👇

Advanced Recycling Is a Fraud—And the Big Oil Plastics Industry Knows It | Common Dreams

This is just a new version of a sad and familiar story: the plastics industry's attempt to use the idea of recycling to protect its license to operate and continue producing ever-greater amounts of pl...

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People are growing worried about the plastic pollution problem — and that’s worrying Big Oil and the plastics industry. In the words of one industry consultant, Big Oil has an “[u]rgent need for success stories.” But will they ever come? CCI’s @davisallen.bsky.social explains.

Big Oil and the plastics industry are deceptively marketing "advanced recycling" as a solution — even as industry insiders point out its limitations.  CCI's @davisallen.bsky.social spoke to CBS News about his recent investigative report, "The Fraud of Plastic Recycling."

Touted by Big Oil and the plastics industry as a major breakthrough, "advanced recycling" is anything but. Our hidden gem of the week unpacks how the technology is neither novel, scalable, nor environmentally friendly. By @davisallen.bsky.social in @climateintegrity.org buff.ly/ONdAAz1

1/2 „#Plastic producers have pushed “advanced #recycling” as a salve to the plastic waste crisis despite knowing for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible solution, a new report argues.“ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report

Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

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"Advanced" recycling is not: ❌ new or groundbreaking ❌ able to address hard-to-recycle plastics ❌ environmentally friendly ❌ circular Don't take our word for it. Read what plastics industry insiders have said: 👇

The Fraud of Advanced Recycling | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry are Promoting a False Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis

climateintegrity.org

“They’re claiming it’s a solution and it’s not, and they know it." Great piece exposing the truth about chemical recycling, based on the new @climateintegrity.org report, from @grist.org @josephwintervhs.bsky.social @davisallen.bsky.social #plasticpollution #advancedrecycling

Plastics companies know about chemical recycling’s shortcomings — but still sell it as a solution

A new report casts doubt on industry narratives about the “revolutionary” technology.

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Big Oil and the plastics industry want you to think that “advanced recycling” is a solution to the plastic waste crisis. “But they know the problems, the limitations," CCI's @davisallen.bsky.social tells @dharna.bsky.social about our new investigation.

Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report

Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

theguardian.com