The guy Trump wants to lead EPA’s air office next? Just a former lobbyist who used to work with a shadowy dark-money group with ties to pretty much every corner of the climate denial movement....
Josh Voorhees
@joshvoorhees.bsky.social
muckraker @fieldnotes.co, an oil & gas watchdog | past: senior writer @slate.com + (an!) organizer @slateunion.bsky.social | MPH, Johns Hopkins | climate, labor, public health | DM for Signal then hit me w/tips on pipelines, petchem, plastics, PFAS, etc
As the Supreme Court weighs a major climate case in Suncor v Boulder, re-upping a @politico.com story I did 7 (!) years ago on the role of attribution science in determining climate damages. www.politico.com/agenda/story...
The new science fossil fuel companies fear
Researchers can now link weather events to emissions – and to the companies responsible. A string of lawsuits is about to give “attribution science” a real-life test.
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EPA is about to gut methane regulations, the result of “a coordinated industry strategy in which fossil fuel groups maneuvered behind the scenes to avoid regulatory accountability.” @rsanta.bsky.social reports for @motherjones.com:
The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift
Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
motherjones.com
“The oil and gas industry says it’s a ‘good-faith’ partner eager to help craft regulations, but time and time again, it’s worked behind the scenes to delay and weaken them. As a result, the United States today emits more methane from its oil and gas sector than any other country in the world.”
The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift
Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
motherjones.com
EPA just announced that it’s “days not weeks” from gutting a landmark methane rule, fulfilling the oil & gas industry’s wishes. To learn more about corporations’ decades-long campaign against methane regulations, check out @fieldnotes.co and @climateintegrity.org’s recent briefing:
WEBINAR: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry's Campaign Against Methane Regulations
YouTube video by Fieldnotes
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The Guardian takes a look at how some food + ag corporations are supporting the GAHA movement, which is a response to the MAHA movement—CLF’s Tom Philpott chimes in on how the food industry is "freaking out" about the vibe shift in the Republican party. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maha – with social media influencers
Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line
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“You begin by doing things voluntarily and then that (and not much more) becomes the regulation,” the BP exec wrote in notes recapping industry's plan. It was a telling admission and also a prescient prediction. @juliakane.bsky.social's new investigation: fieldnotes.substack.com/p/an-oil-exe...
An Oil Exec’s Notes Spell Out Industry’s Methane Duplicity
A Fieldnotes investigation reveals how industry is supporting the illusion of regulation while avoiding the real thing.
fieldnotes.substack.com
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
NEW: Oil & gas corporations have been working hand-in-glove with the Trump admin to gut methane regs. Check out our investigation—based on internal comms that were never meant to be public, FOIA records, and more—to learn how industry has been maneuvering behind the scenes.
‘And Not Much More’: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry’s Campaign Against…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
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The bride will wear white, the groom will wear white, and the Russian oligarch nobody knows will wear camouflage in case someone tries to take a picture of him and ProPublica finds out. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Pay No Attention to the Russian Oligarch at My Wedding Weekend
He’s just a dear friend we know nothing about!
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I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
Confidential documents obtained by @fieldnotes.co show ExxonMobil is secretly behind an effort in Congress to weaken rules on its hazardous and deceptive "advanced recycling" business. Exxon is one of the world's top producers of the components of single-use plastic.
Exxon’s ‘Advanced’ Deception Revealed
Confidential docs show Exxon is waging a campaign of misdirection to weaken rules on its hazardous ‘advanced recycling’ business. The oil giant’s congressional allies don’t want to talk about it.
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New @fieldnotes.co investigation: the oil & gas industry is working hand-in-glove with the Trump admin to gut federal methane regulations. Corporations want to keep the veneer of regulations—and “not much more” than that. fieldnotes.co/investigatio...
‘And Not Much More’: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry’s Campaign Against…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
“As of late August, crude oil cost roughly $10 a barrel less than it would have had China continued buying at prewar levels, according to Daan Struyven, who leads oil research for Goldman Sachs.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
China Stockpiled Oil, and Now It Could Dominate the Energy Landscape
The war with Iran revealed just how much influence the world’s biggest oil importer has over prices and other countries’ supplies of jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.
nytimes.com
Welcome to Point Source. We’re a new outlet that aims to unearth stories about the fossil fuel industry’s power and influence. pointsourcenews.org
Point Source News
Tracing fossil fuel disinformation.
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Hamm was wrong, but remains unfazed by the global energy crisis the Iran War has wrought.
✅ Legislative sleight of hand and a handful of friendly congressmen. ✅ A secret deal with the world’s largest pesticide makers. ✅ A bespoke trade group fronted by global soda and snack giants. Our latest investigation into Exxon's 'advanced recycling' campaign has it all.
Exxon’s ‘Advanced’ Deception Revealed
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
A new @fieldnotes.co report details the oil & gas industry's duplicity on methane—they're pretending to be "good-faith" partners (their words) but in reality have worked w/Trump's EPA to keep the pretense of regulation while gutting any provisions w/ teeth. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/an-oil-exe...
An Oil Exec’s Notes Spell Out Industry’s Methane Duplicity
A Fieldnotes investigation reveals how industry is supporting the illusion of regulation while avoiding the real thing.
fieldnotes.substack.com
Oil: $103 per bbl. Diesel: $6.31 a gal. Gas: $4.27 a gal. A reminder who helped get us into this mess: Harold Hamm—seen below in an Israeli tank—who spent years beating the war drum & who *assured* US officials an energy crisis like this couldn't happen. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/trumps-ori...
Trump’s ‘Original Oil Guy’ Spent Years Dismissing the Risks of a War With Iran
Now, MAGA megadonor and fracking magnate Harold Hamm aims to profit from an energy crisis he assured U.S. officials would never happen.
fieldnotes.substack.com
NEWS: I'm thrilled to be launching Point Source with the one and only @rebleber.bsky.social today! We'll be working to expand the too-small ecosystem of climate accountability reporting. We've already got two new stories up on the site -- please check them out and subscribe!
Point Source News@pointsourcenews.org · last mo.Welcome to Point Source. We’re a new outlet that aims to unearth stories about the fossil fuel industry’s power and influence. pointsourcenews.org
Today's the day! Hear @juliakane.bsky.social detail how O&G corps have been working behind the scenes w/ Trump's EPA to gut methane regs. Come for the analysis; stay for the internal industry comms that were never supposed to be public. Sign up: tinyurl.com/methane-briefing
Julia Kane@juliakane.bsky.social · last mo.Attn: climate reporters — The Trump admin will soon release a proposal to gut Biden's landmark methane rule. @fieldnotes.co is teaming up w/ @rebeccajohn.bsky.social & @rebleber.bsky.social on a briefing re: the O&G industry's decades-long effort to avoid regs and the current plan to defang them.
Oil: $103 per bbl. Diesel: $6.31 a gal. Gas: $4.27 a gal. A reminder who helped get us into this mess: Harold Hamm—seen below in an Israeli tank—who spent years beating the war drum & who *assured* US officials an energy crisis like this couldn't happen. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/trumps-ori...
Trump’s ‘Original Oil Guy’ Spent Years Dismissing the Risks of a War With Iran
Now, MAGA megadonor and fracking magnate Harold Hamm aims to profit from an energy crisis he assured U.S. officials would never happen.
fieldnotes.substack.com
On Fri, @propublica.org reported that the Trump admin will soon gut EPA's methane regs. To learn how the oil & gas industry has been maneuvering behind the scenes to make this happen, join @fieldnotes.co & @climateintegrity.org for a briefing on Wed, where we'll preview new internal industry comms.
Neither the bill's author, Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY), nor any of its 13 co-sponsors (8 GOP, 5 Dem) will say whether they knew of Exxon’s involvement in the creation of the bill they are currently backing—or whether they will continue to support it now that that information is public.
icymi: @fieldnotes.co pubbed a new investigation Friday—we got our hands on a trove of confidential docs that reveal Exxon secretly “developed" the big recycling bill (RMAA) currently winding its way through the House.
Come for the legislative sleight of hand in a bill Exxon "developed"; stay for the apparent quid pro quo Exxon engaged in with the world's largest pesticide makers. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/exxons-adv...
Exxon’s ‘Advanced’ Deception Revealed
Confidential docs show Exxon is waging a campaign of misdirection to weaken rules on its hazardous ‘advanced recycling’ business. The oil giant’s congressional allies don’t want to talk about it.
fieldnotes.substack.com
This bill, the the Recycled Materials Attribution Act, had a brief mention in a recent Hill Heat; it went through subcommittee markup on September 1. But I didn't know its dirty background.
The Week in Climate Hearings: Fascism v. The Planet
Republicans will be fighting for gas stoves and mining, while attacking whales and socialism
hillheat.news
Josh Voorhees@joshvoorhees.bsky.social · last mo.Confidential docs reveal: Exxon “developed and championed” RMAA, a bill that would redefine recycling for its own benefit. It’s gone to great lengths to hide that fact. fieldnotes.co/reporting/ex...
Legislative sleight of hand and a handful of friendly congressmen.