Sharon Kelly
@sharonkelly.bsky.social
Deputy director of strategic analysis, Center for Asset Retirement Accountability. Former investigative reporter covering climate, energy, antitrust.
Quite a good article by @desmog.com about the DOE Climate Working Group report. Well done, @sharonkelly.bsky.social. www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/t...
Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal
Emails from the hand-picked, secretive group of climate crisis deniers revealed flaws in their methods and “animus” toward leading scientists.
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The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
Climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025
Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. CU Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and
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The Climate Working Group was hand-picked by Energy Secretary Chris Wright "for their rigor, honesty, and willingness to elevate the debate." We see their actual process in hundreds of pages of emails and documents, including attacks on mainstream scientists and institutions and rushed review.
DeSmog@desmog.com · 6mo ago🚨 NEW 🚨 Trump EPA's decision to repeal the endangerment finding now discards a signature report by 5 climate crisis deniers, produced so the admin could use it to scientifically justify rolling back climate regulations, 100s of emails reveal. @sharonkelly.bsky.social read 'em all 🧵 buff.ly/4m6XjbX
Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/t...
Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal
Emails from the hand-picked, secretive group of climate crisis deniers revealed flaws in their methods and “animus” toward leading scientists.
desmog.com
NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC "Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021." www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...
"Based on PJM data from GridStatus.io, during the 8:00 a.m. morning peak demand, gas-burning generation was down 10 GW, coal-fired generation was down 2 GW, and oil-burning generation was down 3 GW, all compared to the same time on January 24th."
Grid Status
Comprehensive data and tools for understanding the US Electric Grid
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David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 7mo ago15 GW of fossil power falling down on the job, leaving grandmas and babies to freeze in the dark across the mid-atlantic. Can't count on these flaky, unreliable dinosaurs to show up when called. Truly useless garbage power sources.
“It would be akin to a tobacco company saying ‘we just make the cigarettes, we’re not responsible for the damage once you light up,’” said Brendan DeMelle, executive director of DeSmog, a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on climate change.
Ashley Braun@ashleybraun.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnd to complement this reporting, check out this @wsj.com story on Carbon Measures and climate leaders' critiques of its efforts to decarbonize, featuring a quote from @desmog.com's own Brendan DeMelle www.wsj.com/articles/exx...
Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute charged with conspiracy in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan today by the AG for raising costs and destroying the climate. www.freep.com/story/money/...
Michigan AG Dana Nessel alleges decades-long conspiracy by big oil
In a new lawsuit, the attorney general argues that if not for the conspiracy, Michigan would have a greener economy and more residents driving EVs.
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Get the full thread on @sharonkelly.bsky.social's reporting on ExxonMobil's history of avoiding climate accountability with industry docs dating back to the '60s and the context behind the oil major's backing of Carbon Measures from the editor who worked with her on the story 👇
Ashley Braun@ashleybraun.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow ExxonMobil has joined the Carbon Measures coalition in an effort to reshape global climate accounting standards. The coalition says they "are focused on reducing the carbon intensity of the products responsible for the majority of global emissions."
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new accounting scheme which moves climate pollution “liabilities” to buyers’ books. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has the story for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/e...
After Decades of Deflection, ExxonMobil Moves to Reshape Global Climate Accounting
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing Carbon Measures’ accounting scheme, which moves pollution “liabilities”...
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“That cleaner LNG phase that was there a couple years ago, ‘let’s plant a few trees and call that an offset,’ that was all bullshit. We know it and everybody knows it. And I think we look bad for it at the end of the day” More from Gulfstream LNG's CEO & others here: www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gulfstream LNG CEO Says Carbon Offsets, Cleaner LNG Are ‘Bullshit’
Emboldened by Trump’s LNG deregulation, industry CEOs brush off climate concerns as Gulf Coast residents warn new gas projects will further strain an already environmentally stressed region.
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Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air #Pollution Laws: Report @sharonkelly.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...
Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds
With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws.
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The Trump administration's "climate working group" produced a report full of errors, typos, and climate denial talking points, according to a new review by upwards of 100 climate experts led by @andrewdessler.com. @sharonkelly.bsky.social and @ejgertz.bsky.social report for @desmog .
Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’
A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.
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Big tech and big oil say AI can help cut climate-changing pollution.🌍 Meanwhile, they're mostly using AI to drill more oil🛢️, while handing it the keys to the ⚡ power grid. My latest, for @desmog.com, on the race to use AI for fossil fuels underneath the greenwashing: www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
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Sometimes it's hard to grasp the scale of data center projects and the amount of power they might use. Here's one attempt to explain that for a proposed project in a rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. There's a public hearing on it Tuesday www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...
Data Center Lobbyists Clear the Way for Mega-Projects in Rural Georgia
Public records reviewed by DeSmog show developers worked to dilute draft planning rule in Coweta County.
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DeSmog@desmog.com · last yr.Known as Project Sail, the proposed site in this rural corner of Coweta County’s Sargent community could fill Truist Park, the Atlanta Braves baseball stadium, 53 times. It's estimated to use 14 times more energy than the total power demand of Atlanta’s airport, the busiest in the world.
Phenomenal reporting from @desmog.com’s Edward Donnelly. County officials have significant say over data center development — which means lobbyists are now parachuting into rural spots like Coweta County, GA, working to reshape local zoning rules to benefit big tech www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...
Data Center Lobbyists Clear the Way for Mega-Projects in Rural Georgia
Public records reviewed by DeSmog show developers worked to dilute draft planning rule in Coweta County.
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Tech bros love to say AI will fix climate change but oil companies are mostly using it to drill for more oil. @sharonkelly.bsky.social was at an industry event where a Shell exec said 'about 70 percent of our technology effort' is on fossil fuel production. www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
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There is so much to unpack here: agentic AI operating without human oversight, AI running on fossil fuels also acquiring those fuels, the probability of AI being the cause of a natural disaster and the liability issues. #AI #Environment #Climate www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
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“Just 14 percent of oil and gas producers said they use AI for emissions monitoring, leak detection, and other environmental tools, IBM’s survey found. Twice as many (28 percent) reported using AI for oil and gas drilling” More on how Big Oil uses AI, from @desmog www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
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The LNG industry is also working to weaken the methane regulation, which may be one of the few policies of oversight on the US gas industry left (with Trump blowing up all domestic regulation) Europe at risk of weakening its own rules under American pressure, locking in dependency on one supplier
U.S. LNG lobbying aimed at weakening EU methane rules gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...
U.S. LNG lobbying aimed at weakening EU methane rules - Gas Outlook
The EU has pledged to buy U.S. LNG as part of a trade deal with Trump. The Trump administration and the U.S. LNG industry has seized on the trade talks to target the EU Methane Regulation with the goa...
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States have legal duty to stop producing and using fossil fuels, top UN court rules Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution www.theguardian.com/environment/...
States have legal duty to stop producing and using fossil fuels, top UN court rules
Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution
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American natural gas industry will find it "very, very challenging" to meet Europe's methane pollution standards, Center for LNG says. More on the push to undercut Europe's climate rules to make room for US natural gas, including talk of reducing fines to $1, here: www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/a...
As Trump’s Trade Deadline Looms, U.S. Gas Exporters Are Sweating Over Meeting Europe’s Pollution Standards
The EU’s new methane rules threaten U.S. LNG exports. But industry insiders and lobbyists are pressuring the EU to look the other way
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Fun fact: Chris Wright is former CEO of oil company Liberty Energy and ex-director of oil & gas lobby group Western Energy Alliance. Not mentioned by @economist.com Heatwave is a weird time to publish climate denial from a fossil fuel lobbyist www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u... @desmog.com
The Economist@economist.com · last yr.“Yes, atmospheric CO2 has increased over time—but so has life expectancy,” writes Chris Wright. In a guest essay America’s energy secretary invites the world to rethink renewable energy econ.st/4kCU2kY Illustration: Dan Williams
As Woodside moves forward on Louisiana LNG project (formerly Driftwood LNG), Australian unions & activists warn company's accidents are mounting. "We’ve had a number of incidents, a number of near-misses, a number of injuries" says union organizer Doug Heath. "It’s the worst it’s been in 20 years"
DeSmog [Unofficial]@desmog.com.web.brid.gy · last yr.
As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data - DeSmog www.desmog.com/2025/06/11/a...
As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data
From Colorado to Virginia, environmental groups are challenging legal barriers that prevent scientists and communities from seeing the full picture of fossil fuel harms.
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Hilarious to me that oil execs are privately freaking out about the Trump administration's chaos. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has more in @desmog.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...
Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry
After donating heavily to Trump’s reelection, Big Oil is just catching on that the president's policies can hurt them too, anonymous survey of industry executives reveals.
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Anonymous survey shows Big Oil knows the truth. While they publicly cheer Trump's chaos, privately they’re sounding the alarm: The president's unstable leadership is bad for their bottom line — and, ultimately, our planet. Read the full story from @sharonkelly.bsky.social: loom.ly/Ikkblxg
Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry
After donating heavily to Trump’s reelection, Big Oil is just catching on that Trump’s policies can hurt them too, anonymous survey of industry executives reveals.
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That “burdensome” environmental red tape oil lobbyists hate? Turns out it might be pretty small potatoes (most drillers estimated costs<$1.99/bbl) — especially compared to “chaos”and “uncertainty” of Trump trade moves, Dallas Fed survey of oil and gas execs suggests www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...
Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry
After donating heavily to Trump’s reelection, Big Oil is just catching on that Trump’s policies can hurt them too, anonymous survey of industry executives reveals.
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