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Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

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Right on cue, the WSJ reports oil and gas lobbyists are asking Congress to grant Big Oil immunity against climate lawsuits. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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The Greenpeace verdict is part of an escalating attack on nonprofits and protest, and other corporations could feel emboldened to test the waters. But legal experts say it's crucial to know our rights and "not cower in the face of manifest injustices." www.exxonknews.org/p/the-greenp...

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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

submitted 8 days ago • 108 comments

ICE director Robert Cerna acknowledges that the people they are rounding up do not have a criminal record, but they are terrorists simply by having an affiliation (asserted by ICE without proof) with a group they have labeled as terrorists. The implications of this for everyone are staggering.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

After another failed effort to stop climate deception cases at the Supreme Court and cases in MN & PR moving forward, there's growing speculation that Big Oil will turn to a Republican-controlled federal government for total immunity. www.exxonknews.org/p/as-big-oil...

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🔥⚖️🌐NOW: historic moment for #ClimateJustice ongoing in #SaulvsRWE in Hamm 🇩🇪 📢this case could set a groundbreaking #ClimateLitigation legal precedent to hold polluters accountable for climate harms 🐦📝I will be reporting live on this platform, with facts & background 👇

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Update on this: nearly 200 advocacy groups (including @climateintegrity.bsky.social) are now calling on Dems in Congress to oppose a liability waiver for the fossil fuel industry www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Groups tied to Leonard Leo were also behind an "unprecedented" influence campaign to convince the Supreme Court to stop Honolulu's climate lawsuit from going to trial (they did not succeed) www.exxonknews.org/p/big-oil-ra...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Dark money groups tied to conservative power broker Leonard Leo are trying to kill a rule forcing them to disclose who’s funding their judicial pressure campaigns.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Reminder that Energy Transfer is being represented by Gibson Dunn, a law firm with a legacy of helping big corporations silence their critics That same firm is using a First Amendment defense to try to shield Chevron from lawsuits alleging climate deception www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi...

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Big Oil is successfully using "misleading" ads disguised as reporting to “manipulate mass public opinion,” a new study from @commscholar.bsky.social, others at @bostonu.bsky.social and @uniofcam.bsky.social found. www.exxonknews.org/p/study-news...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Big Oil is successfully using "misleading" ads disguised as reporting to “manipulate mass public opinion,” a new study from @commscholar.bsky.social, others at @bostonu.bsky.social and @uniofcam.bsky.social found. www.exxonknews.org/p/study-news...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

As I sit here covering this Energy Transfer lawsuit against Greenpeace, Pennsylvania is forcing the company to supply bottled water to a community after a pipeline leaked jet fuel for 16 MONTHS before anyone figured it out. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has denied a motion from 19 attorneys general to stop climate deception lawsuits against Big Oil from five states — CA, CT, MN, NJ, and RI. This is the 2nd time this year the justices declined to consider arguments aiming to shelter Big Oil from accountability.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The new No. 2 at EPA "made nearly $3.2 million in 2024 representing a range of corporate interests against pollution cases and enforcement actions. His clients included Chevron, Sunoco Pipeline, and Energy Transfer..." Cool cool cool.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

One of the greatest wins corporate PR pulled off in the U.S. is convincing the vast majority of journalists that an activist is biased and agenda-driven and thus an unreliable source, but a CEO must be quoted in every story in order to lend it credibility and "balance."

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

"Coyle’s new role has gotten the attention of Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a safety advocacy group. In private practice, Coyle twice filed legal challenges to pipeline safety rules finalized by the Biden administration." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass www.propublica.org/article/legi...

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

On David Fotouhi, Trump's nominee for second-in-command at EPA: “It remains difficult for me to understand how someone who’s made a career defending the very industries that destroy our environment has any business now being entrusted to protect it,” said @whitehouse.senate.gov

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A lawyer who spent his career defending corporate polluters and unraveling regulations is primed to be No. 2 at the EPA after a committee hearing today. Former officials said it's part of Trump's plan to gut the agency on industry donors' behalf www.exxonknews.org/p/lawyer-for...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Reported from my hometown this week on the trial against Greenpeace, where seating a jury without ties to the fossil fuel industry or strong biases against the Dakota Access pipeline protests proved impossible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

That "weird newspaper" pink slimed Guardian reporter @rachelleingang.bsky.social! It's more evidence suggesting this is a propaganda rag. No real news outlet would spend resources targeting Rachel, one of the only observers in the court who’s actually from Mandan 1/ centralndnews.com/stories/6701...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Bizarrely this isn't even the only conspiracy trial aimed at pipeline opponents being tried this week www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The administration has withdrawn carbon dioxide pipeline regulations inspired by a horrific gas leak, and a former industry lobbyist is now overseeing such matters.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

🚨Trump may rescind CO2 pipeline safety rules as oil companies prepare for a buildout, largely intended for more oil extraction. The move comes 5 years after a CO2 pipeline poisoned a village in Satartia, MS. from me & @danad1012.bsky.social w/ @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/safety-rul...

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BP is ditching its renewables target to return to a focus on fossil fuels, Reuters reports www.reuters.com/business/ene... This shouldn't come as a surprise -- the oil giant has a pattern of touting climate pledges while making other plans behind the scenes. www.exxonknews.org/p/four-years...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

A major trial led by pipeline company Energy Transfer against Greenpeace begins Monday in North Dakota. A few things to know about the potential implications of this $300 million case:

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

#ClimateLitigation News: Minnesota's climate deception lawsuit against Exxon, API, & Koch Industries is advancing after a state court rejected defendants' motions to dismiss. (Court did grant dismissal of one count alleging violations of MN's consumer fraud law) www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Commu...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Energy Transfer’s $300m trial against Greenpeace begins on Monday - a classic SLAPP suit by a major Trump donor which seeks to rewrite the Indigenous-led Standing Rock protests and could have a chilling effect on free speech By me & @rachelleingang.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby plant in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley." Now the Trump admin is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the area. Critical story via @oliverlaughland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

A number of climate deception lawsuits against oil companies have been dismissed in the past few weeks as state court judges take up Big Oil's characterization of the cases. I spoke with legal experts to find out what's going on and what could happen next: www.exxonknews.org/p/state-judg...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

on feb. 8, 2024, trans teen Nex Benedict died. they should've turned 17 last month. a year after his death, I speak to queer Indigenous people from Oklahoma on the risks they face from both climate calamity and a hateful political landscape. nex should still be alive. atmos.earth/preventing-t...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

another mindblowing decision from a big outlet to cut climate coverage right now(?!?) AND they're losing Alex, who's a brilliant storyteller and also a delight, get on his calendar while you can

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

the DOE is working hand in hand with the plastics industry, using public funds to back highly controversial tech that petrochemical companies say will help solve the plastic waste crisis. so glad to see my collab with @jbwinters.bsky.social out in the world

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment