Rachel Santarsiero
@rsanta.bsky.social
she/her | Climate Change Investigator @nsarchive.bsky.social | #FOIA | views own | Words in @desmog.com @thebulletin.org and @climatechangenews.com
Re-upping this 2022 piece I wrote for @inkstickmedia.com as a reminder that North Africa is also on fire right now, not just Spain and France. inkstickmedia.com/heatwaves-ar...
Heatwaves Are Not Just a European Problem
The summer of 2022 was marked by devastating heatwaves around the world, a level of extreme heat that was yet “another clear indicator that emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity are causing ...
inkstickmedia.com
Five (5!!) years ago, the State Department predicted that uneven climate change impacts like wildfires, heat, and drought could cause widening political fissures and income gaps between southern and northern Europe. Southern Europe and North Africa are currently on fire. @nsarchive.bsky.social
A new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie
How fossil fuel companies made us believe gas was clean
A new report from the Center for Climate Integrity exposes "decades of deception."
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Trump on Friday ordered warning signs and exhibits installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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📢 Are you a journalist who uses FOIA or other public records laws in your reporting? You could win $25K with our new journalism award, the Penlight Prize. Submission deadline: Sept. 1, 2026 Read more and apply today:
New $25K ‘Penlight’ journalism award honors paywall-free FOIA reporting
The Penlight Prize celebrates paywall-free reporting based on records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or state public records laws.
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The Trump administration's federal information erasure campaign isn't over. Catch up on the latest losses, removals, and deletions on the @nsarchive.bsky.social's Disappearing Data Chronology: nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
A Disappearing Data Chronology
Latest update: July 21, 2026
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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
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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The Trump administration's federal information erasure campaign isn't over. Catch up on the latest losses, removals, and deletions on the @nsarchive.bsky.social's Disappearing Data Chronology: nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...
A Disappearing Data Chronology
Latest update: July 21, 2026
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A major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.
A groundbreaking new report shows the gas industry knew 50 years ago that natural gas was a dirty fuel, yet promoted it for decades as "Clean Energy for Today and Tomorrow." Read DeSmog's latest. #CenterforClimateIntegrity #RebeccaJohn #RebeccaLeber #methane 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
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 agoNEW: 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 agoNEW: 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.
Drop what you’re doing and read this piece by @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet:
Hilary Beaumont@hilarybeaumont.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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The @nsarchive.bsky.social is now on Instagram and Tik Tok! You can also follow the Archive’s seasoned YouTube account for old videos and new. Follow for all things FOIA, transparency, and, of course, government secrecy.
National Security Archive@nsarchive.bsky.social · 3w agoThere are new ways to connect with the National Security Archive on social media! Follow us on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. instagram.com/natsecarchive/ tiktok.com/@natsecarchive youtube.com/@nsarchive
In the 1960s, the CIA tried to use cats as spies. It was the least of their miscalculations. www.instagram.com/natsecarchiv...
National Security Archive on Instagram: "CW: This video includes descriptions of CIA actions that violated and harmed humans and animals. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to use cats as spies. It was the ...
1 likes, 0 comments - natsecarchive on July 17, 2026: "CW: This video includes descriptions of CIA actions that violated and harmed humans and animals. In the 1960s, the CIA tried to use cats as spie...
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There are new ways to connect with the National Security Archive on social media! Follow us on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. instagram.com/natsecarchive/ tiktok.com/@natsecarchive youtube.com/@nsarchive
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Challenging government secrecy, informing the public debate through access to declassified documents, ensuring government accountability, and defending the right to know in the US and abroad.
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Unconscionable. Personally, I'm looking forward to the climate tribunals ...
Governments Knew the Risks of Global Warming as They Chose Fossil-Fueled Growth in the 1950s and ’60s - Inside Climate News
A new report suggests that some governments have ignored legal obligations to prevent climate harm for decades.
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Mamdani told everyone to set their ac to 78. Right wing media lost their mind and the Dept of Energy removed thousands of web pages about energy conservation. It seemed like the DOE removed the pages bc of Mamdani, but its actually part of a much larger pattern of destroying info from the US govt
Over 1,600 energy department webpages on utility bill savings removed as US temperatures soar
Guardian analysis found the removals coincided with the Trump administration’s push to weaken efficiency rules
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Like King George III, Trump Claims Ownership of Public Records Via @nsarchive.bsky.social by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...
Freedom of Information at 60
Washington, D.C., July 9, 2026 - Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson reluctantly signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law, Americans enjoy a national transparency treasure in th...
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25 years ago, for the first time ever, the National Security Archive published all 3 versions of the Pentagon Papers, a leaked document tracking the historical context of the Vietnam War.
Former Exxon lawyer Robert Levy joins the DOJ division that dubs itself ‘the nation’s largest environmental law firm.' In reaction, a Koch lawyer says: "You will be missed in our circles" in Levy's now-deleted LinkedIn announcement. @desmog.com's latest www.desmog.com/2026/07/10/e...
Exxon’s Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm'
The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups.
desmog.com
NEW: Robert Levy, a 17-year veteran of Exxon, will be joining the DOJ team that's suing states over lawsuits and laws that hold fossil fuel companies — including Exxon — accountable for climate change. His first day is Monday. My latest for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/07/10/e...
Exxon’s Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm'
The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups.
desmog.com
FOIA is 60 years old! Can the legal right to know survive while the practical ability to exercise that right steadily erodes, and when the President claims White House records are his personal property? nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/20...
Freedom of Information at 60
Washington, D.C., July 9, 2026 - Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson reluctantly signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into law, Americans enjoy a national transparency treasure in th...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
NEW: Robert Levy, a 17-year veteran of Exxon, will be joining the DOJ team that's suing states over lawsuits and laws that hold fossil fuel companies — including Exxon — accountable for climate change. His first day is Monday. My latest for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/07/10/e...
Exxon’s Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm'
The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups.
desmog.com
Unlike many of the people detained by ICE, Fernandez qualifies as “truly the worst of the worst,” said Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at the National Security Archive, a nonprofit group that has worked to get documents related to the case released publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...
An Aging Assassin Was Caught by ICE. Will the U.S. Deport Him?
He helped plot a car bombing in Washington that killed two people in 1976. Fifty years later, old government secrets could decide his fate.
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Who defines the line of government transparency?
