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Emily Sanders

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Writing and reporting on fossil fuel industry influence & climate accountability for @pointsourcenews.org. signal: @emilysanders.91 email: esanders@pointsourcenews.org she/her

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 7h
A glimpse into the stakes of Monday's SCOTUS arguments in Suncor v Boulder for just one community: Colorado ranchers, whose livelihoods have been wrecked by fires & drought. Ranchers depend on local govt services -- unless govts can recover climate costs, they say they may not be able to continue
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Aaron Regunberg @aaronregunberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The oligarchs are coming for every last tool the American people have ever used to restrain corporate abuse, deception, and overreach. It's a huge new front in the right's push for elite impunity, and it's not getting enough attention. For @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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The Right-Wing Plot to Make It Harder to Sue Corporations
Oligarchs and their Republican lackeys are working together to shield corporations from accountability for the widespread harms they do to the American people.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigation
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next week, SCOTUS will hear args in Boulder's climate lawsuit that says oil giants deceived the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels & should pay for local damages. A few things to know, ft my convo with @ishan-thakore.bsky.social @lesleyclark.bsky.social @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social
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Three things to know about the upcoming Supreme Court climate case
The broader implications if Exxon and Suncor get their SCOTUS reprieve from state climate lawsuits. Also, what to make of a justice’s 11th-hour recusal.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
welp... earlier this year I wrote for @desmog.com about what this could mean for US communities in the path of the LNG export buildout
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EU to delay methane emissions rules after pushback from governments
The European Commission plans to postpone ​the European Union's landmark law ‌to reduce methane emissions, a spokesperson said on Monday, ​following calls from governments ​including France and the ⁠U...
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.
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Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WATCH: Our Prof. Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social joined @emdashsanders.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org and @pointsourcenews.org for this helpful briefing on the climate case Suncor v. Boulder heading to SCOTUS in a couple weeks. coveringclimatenow.org/event/suncor...
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Suncor v. Boulder: The Climate Showdown at the Supreme Court — Covering Climate Now
 The first case the US Supreme Court will hear this fall term is a blockbuster climate lawsuit — one of dozens brought by state and local governments that argue oil companies deceived the public abou...
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Journalists reporting on Suncor v. Boulder at SCOTUS: me, @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social, @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @ishan-thakore.bsky.social talked potential angles, qs before the court, implications of a ruling & other ways you can approach this coverage. Thanks @coveringclimatenow.org!
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Suncor v. Boulder: The Climate Showdown at the Supreme Court — Covering Climate Now
 The first case the US Supreme Court will hear this fall term is a blockbuster climate lawsuit — one of dozens brought by state and local governments that argue oil companies deceived the public abou...
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
See you at noon!
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So galling: Big Oil executives--who for decades have lied, deceived, and in every other way stonewalled legislation that would stop them from profiting by poisoning our bodies and our climate--are now asking for legal immunity for their crimes. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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“They’re pulling out all the stops”: Big Oil’s all-encompassing attacks on climate lawsuits
The fossil fuel industry and its allies are coordinating to end lawsuits that could make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...
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Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The climate coalition often doesn't realise how wide and varied the membership is. Exhibit A: American ranchers. Ranchers in Colorado are arguing that fossil fuel companies made profit whilst knowingly causing climate change and passing the costs to local government.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A group of Colorado ranchers is speaking out in support of a major climate lawsuit that will be heard by the Supreme Court in a couple weeks. Climate change is upending their way of life and they think oil companies should help local govts adapt.
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The Colorado ranchers taking on Big Oil
As the Supreme Court considers a climate lawsuit against oil companies, ranchers say their livelihoods are caught in the fray.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
This is going to be a thread of AI greenwashing getting pumped out at New York Climate Week Here's one from today: Siemens, raking in MOUNTAINS of $$ from selling gas turbines to data centres (not mentioned) says: “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible" apnews.com/article/clim...
On the other hand, Eva Riesenhuber, the head of sustainability at the German automation company Siemens, and Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said AI is too important to humanity and will help tackle climate change.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” according to Wang, who told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to planet-warming emissions.

Acknowledging these concerns, Riesenhuber said “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”a chart showing siemens gas turbine sales will add emissions the equivalent to pakistan
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a great new feature from @emdashsanders.bsky.social on the independent Colorado ranchers who want Big Oil to own up for climate damages, rather than leave the burden to local governments. pointsourcenews.org/the-colorado...
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The Colorado ranchers taking on Big Oil
As the Supreme Court considers a climate lawsuit against oil companies, ranchers say their livelihoods are caught in the fray.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A group of Colorado ranchers is speaking out in support of a major climate lawsuit that will be heard by the Supreme Court in a couple weeks. Climate change is upending their way of life and they think oil companies should help local govts adapt.
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The Colorado ranchers taking on Big Oil
As the Supreme Court considers a climate lawsuit against oil companies, ranchers say their livelihoods are caught in the fray.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 18/09/2026
This fall, SCOTUS will hear a blockbuster climate case — one of dozens brought by US governments arguing oil companies deceived the public about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and should be held accountable. On 9/23 at 12pm ET, dig in with CCNow + @pointsourcenews.org RSVP: buff.ly/oEmltW0
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even though I knew all the different ways oil companies were trying to shield themselves from liability, it was pretty insane to write this and see it all laid out on the page in one place. Here's my explainer on the wide-ranging, well-funded efforts to block climate lawsuits
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
"The oil industry has prioritized legislation that could immunize them from liability entirely, and is counting on the current Republican trifecta in Washington to deliver." Great piece by @emdashsanders.bsky.social in the new @pointsourcenews.org pointsourcenews.org/theyre-pulli...
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“They’re pulling out all the stops”: Big Oil’s all-encompassing attacks on climate lawsuits
The fossil fuel industry and its allies are coordinating to end lawsuits that could make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This morning a GOP bill to immunize oil companies from all climate lawsuits will go to a full committee markup. It's one of many ways the industry and its well-funded allies are maneuvering to escape the law. Read about them in my first story for Point Source pointsourcenews.org/theyre-pulli...
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“They’re pulling out all the stops”: Big Oil’s all-encompassing attacks on climate lawsuits
The fossil fuel industry and its allies are coordinating to end lawsuits that could make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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!
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Josh Voorhees @joshvoorhees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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.
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Fieldnotes @fieldnotes.co · 11/09/2026
NEW: Exxon really doesn’t want you to know it’s behind the “advanced recycling” bill working its way through Congress. fieldnotes.substack.com/p/exxons-adv...
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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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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
SCOTUS will hear a lawsuit that would make Exxon pay for climate damages in Boulder, CO, like the 1000+ homes burned in the Marshall fire. Law prof Todd Zywicki says the case is about "a bunch of hippies in Boulder County" He's former ED of the George Mason Law & Economics Center, funded by Exxon
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Analysts warn of consequences if SCOTUS doesn't toss Boulder climate lawsuit
(The Center Square) – Legal analysts and advocates warn that a case before the U.S. Supreme Court could have dire consequences on climate change litigation depending on the ruling.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New financial disclosure shows Alito holds AT LEAST $175,000 in fossil fuel investments. In October, he's hearing a major case against Exxon and Suncor, which will decide if oil companies can be held accountable for billions in climate damages currently falling on the public.
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Supreme Court Justice Alito Keeps Oil And Gas Stocks As He Faces Pressure To Recuse In Upcoming Case
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI is not just consuming a lot of fossil fuels. It it also enabling the fossil fuel industry to drill more, faster. These applications create far more climate pollution than data centers — 3.3x to 13.3x more, according to new peer-reviewed research. We *have* to start talking about this.
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Republican officials that started this push are funded by the same oil companies and trade groups facing climate lawsuits. www.exxonknews.org/p/the-top-co...
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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
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The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🆕 I spoke w/ half a dozen former attorneys at DOJ's environment division, newly renamed as the "energy" division, about the significant changes there under Trump 2.0 - incl. an attorney exodus, involuntary reassignments of section chiefs, the recent name change, & the massive drop in enforcement
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Environmental groups are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency reject a new Pfas that chemical giant Chemours is attempting to fast track for approval for use in cooling datacenters, and would almost certainly pollute regions around the facilities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US environmental groups urge EPA to reject new Pfas to cool datacenters
Coalition says Chemours downplayed health and climate risks in bid to fast-track the compound’s use
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ExxonMobil will report second quarter earnings in a few days. Most analysts expect profits for the quarter will more than double compared to last year, from $7 billion to about $16 billion.
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...
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Ames Alexander @amesalex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW: Louisiana residents living near major toxic polluters are often left in the dark about what they're breathing. Our investigation found major gaps in the state's air-monitoring network—and how industry-backed legislation helped keep it that way. floodlightnews.org/louisiana-to...
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Louisiana communities are left in the dark on toxic air — and industry helped keep it that way
The state’s air monitors are often miles from its biggest polluters and residents have little way of knowing what they’re breathing. That’s no accident.
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Julia Kane @juliakane.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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." 👏👏
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deenashanker.bsky.social @deenashanker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
how is every politician not out there talking about the smoke and their plans to reduce emissions
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Hilary Beaumont @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: 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...
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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.
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
UPDATE: This first-of-its-kind wrongful death case is moving forward after a state court denied oil companies' motions to dismiss this week 🧵 (1/3)
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In case you missed it: Exxon's executive counsel is leaving the company to join the U.S. DOJ's newly renamed Energy & Natural Resources division, which lists blocking climate lawsuits against oil and gas majors as a priority. 🫠🫠
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E&E News: Exxon lawyer to join DOJ energy division
Robert Levy, executive counsel at the oil company, will retire from his role and join the federal government later this month.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The US oil and gas industry and the Trump regime are doing everything they can to "strong-arm the European Commission" into delaying the rollout of the EU's methane-reporting rule. And they are succeeding. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: ‘Can you help us?’: US oil execs turn to Trump to topple Europe’s climate rules
Here's an inside look at how a climate regulation became a battleground between the U.S. and Europe.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
California just finalized rules for CCS pipelines without distance requirements from communities. Oil companies just have to avoid building near them "as far as practicable" and, if they can't, provide regulators with "vapor dispersion" analyses & training for 1st responders. What could go wrong
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Aaron Regunberg @aaronregunberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"When white moderates complained in similar fashion about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King criticized their 'mythical concept of time' in Why We Can’t Wait. We can’t wait when it comes to climate change, either."
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another carbon capture plant canceled. "Air Products is scrapping plans to develop a multibillion-dollar project in Louisiana that would have produced of hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. The company will take a pretax charge of as much as $2.9 billion." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Air Products Cancels Massive Clean Energy Complex in Louisiana
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. is scrapping plans to develop a multibillion-dollar project in Louisiana that would have produced of hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“Public comments are integral to the functioning of democracy. They have been since ancient Athens,” said disinfo expert Samuel Woolley. Now AI-linked platforms generating mass public comments are invading the process, warping local climate politics (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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AI-Powered Mass Emails Are Warping Local Energy, Climate Politics
From California to North Carolina, officials weighing policy changes are being inundated with comments via platforms that tout AI capabilities.
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"fossil fuel companies launched sophisticated public relations campaigns to muddy the waters, creating authoritative-looking reports designed to mimic official government science while downplaying the catastrophic threat to marine ecosystems like coral reefs."
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Big Oil knew it was destroying coral reefs
Fossil fuel companies knew since at least the 1980s that their products would decimate coral reefs, new research shows.
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 25/06/2026
The pernicious role of fossil fuel funding of climate research doesn't get any clearer than this: "'Wedges' would likely never have been written without BP’s funding" What $15 million upfront, $56m total, buys you...
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Paris court orders TotalEnergies to account for its scope 3 emissions "As Europe swelters under another deadly heatwave, the French court has sent a strong message: fossil fuel companies will be held accountable" said @ecchr.bsky.social's Clara Gonzales insideclimatenews.org/news/2606202...
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French Oil Major Failed to Fulfill ‘Vigilance’ Duty on Climate, Paris Court Rules - Inside Climate News
In a landmark climate case against TotalEnergies, a French court said the company could not hide behind consumers and needs to account for the full range of its emissions, including those from the use...
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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