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We are over 200 organisations around Europe fighting to cut fossil fuels out of our politics! Join us in Brussels and beyond #fossilfreepolitics✂️ linktr.ee/fossilfreeeu

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
❓Who's paying the most in extra energy costs because of the Hormuz crisis? ✔️ Europe 🇪🇺 But as we heard from EU President VDL in today's #SOTEU, there's no serious strategy to tackle this. Maybe she should stop taking advice from the fossil fuel industry? #FossilFreePolitics
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/09/2026
Lot of people asking questions already answered by the sign
Me holding a sticker that says I'm not a fossil fuel lobbyist
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 08/09/2026
What do you do when there’s a vampire at the door? Don’t invite them in! The same thing goes for #fossilfuel industry, which profits from causing climate crisis. We need #FossilFreePolitics, yet #EU Commission joins #BigPolluters in #Brussels today Read more: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat... 👇
Two panel image with overhead title "When it matter's who you're talking to...". The first panel below, labelled “Vampires”, shows an open door with a mouth with two sharp pointed teeth at the threshold, and a speech bubble saying “Can we come in?”. The second panel, labelled “Fossil fuel industry”, shows a figure carrying sacks of money walking over an oil refinery with chimneys belching pollution, superimposed over an EU building with tall EU flags outside it. A speech bubble from the figure says “Can we come in?”
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A great article has just been published on the crucial work of long-time FFP ally Dr Rachel Barry and her colleagues 👏 See how we can apply lessons from tobacco control to other industries that harm health like fossil fuels 👇 stories.bath.ac.uk/research-wit...
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Maria Ohisalo @mariaohisalo.vihreat.fi · 16/06/2026
Fossiiliteollisuus on vuosikymmeniä jarruttanut ilmastotoimia, lobannut kulisseissa, suojellut voittojaan ihmisten ja planeettamme kustannuksella. Tämä on tullut tiensä päähän. Siksi allekirjoitin FossilFreeMEP-sitoumuksen. @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org @foeeurope.bsky.social
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 03/06/2026
Together with the @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social coalition we have for *years* been banging on about the toxic influence of polluting companies on the EU policy debate by sponsoring media events for access Nice to see more attention on this – will media organisations now do anything about it though?
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Pay-to-play in Brussels: How media events became the new lobbying frontier | Euractiv
Dinners, roundtables and conferences have long been a feature of lobbying culture. What is changing is who organises them
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
FFP is back in the European Parliament 🇪🇺 We brought together MEPs, scholars, and civil society representatives to discuss how to limit the influence of the fossil fuel lobby on EU decision making. We also launched a pledge for MEPs: fossilfreepolitics.org/mep-pledge/
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
FFP event in the EP ➡️ How to limit the influence of the Fossil Fuel lobby on EU decision making? We’re organising a cross-party discussion in the European Parliament on the 15th April. Reach out to us if you’d like to be there 👋
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today, the European Parliament voted in favour of approving the US-EU trade deal. This is bad news for Europe’s energy security and transition, and it is a clear sign of the tight grip that the fossil fuel lobby has on the EU. Another example why we need #FossilFreePolitics now!
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Network Highlights ⭐ Our colleagues at @global2000.bsky.social in Austria took a good look at who their representatives are meeting in Brussels. The result: Austrian MEPs meet twice as often with economy & industry stakeholders than with civil society... 📄: www.global2000.at/publikatione...
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GLOBAL 2000 Lobbying Report 2025
Wer beeinflusst unsere Politik? Und wie transparent ist das wirklich? In diesem Report zeigt GLOBAL 2000, wie intensiv in Brüssel um Gesetze gerungen wird und welche Interessen bei österreichischen EU...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 14/02/2026
Petrochemical industry talking points are being echoed at the highest levels of EU decision-making. So we asked: who’s really influencing EU policy? We compared petrochemical lobby demands and @ec.europa.eu rhetoric—and the overlaps are striking. Check out the matches ⬇️ [1/1]
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It's time to end our toxic relationship with fossil fuels 💔
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Re-set: platforma pro sociálně-ekologickou transformaci @re-set.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New report on the fossil fuel lobby in Czechia ☣️ Free download — link in comments ⬇️ We expose how the fossil lobby blocks climate action & justice. The report names Czech politicians incl. MEP Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP), Minister of Industry Karel Havlíček & Environment Minister Petr Macinka.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 10/12/2025
The climate needs a fair, fast and funded fossil fuel phase-out, so why did EU governments roll out the red carpet for the oil and gas industry at #COP30? Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down. #KickBigPollutersOut #FossilFreePolitics corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/c...
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The Trojan horse of net zero 🐴 “Instead of focusing on the fossil phase-out, we’re funding a lifeline for the industry driving the crisis" said @kimclaes.bsky.social about the Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) tech. Listen to Argos's new podcast for the full story (NL) argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/go...
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Gokken met CO2 onder de Noordzee: redmiddel of ramp?
Het is de belofte waar ons klimaatbeleid voor een groot deel op leunt: CO2 opvangen en voor altijd opslaan, bijvoorbeeld onder de Noordzee. Het heet Carbon Capture and Storage, ofwel CCS.
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Commission's Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICMForum starts MONDAY. Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m... @ec.europa.eu
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001. After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 17/11/2025
💫 New Civil Society Pledge for #FossilFreePolitics💫 96 CSOs unite behind one demand: climate policy free from fossil fuel influence. 1/2🧵👇 🔗 caneurope.org/96-civil-soc... @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org @foeeurope.bsky.social
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96 Civil Society Organisations Pledge for Fossil Free Politics - CAN Europe
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has worked to block effective climate action – denying climate science data, delaying progress towards clean energy and distorting democratic debate. Through mass...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 24/11/2025
💣“They say ‘Just Transition, leaves no one behind’. But when you look at the reality, everyone is left behind.” - Zethu Hlatshwayo, South African climate justice activist featured in CEO’s documentary. Join us for the premiere in Brussels on 27th Nov at 7pm 🎬 Watch our new trailer 👇
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 21/11/2025
BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels” She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels. #FossilFreePolitics
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Truth hard to hear above the chorus of fossil fuel voices at COP
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Some good reads about fossil fuel lobbyists at COP ✨ Euronews: www.euronews.com/green/2025/1... Reporterre (FR): reporterre.net/En-depit-des...
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One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 18/11/2025
Meat giant JBS, accused of clearing the Amazon rainforest for cattle ranching, has 8️⃣ lobbyists at the 🇺🇳 U.N. climate talks in Brazil. But it’s not the only #BigAg polluter on the ground. @desmog.com's latest analysis reveals that 300+ industry reps are at #COP30, undermining climate action.
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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 18/11/2025
Stormy start for week two in Belém: 👍 Civil Society Pledge for Fossil Free Politics 👎 Carbon Capture and Storage lobbies roaming wildly at COP30
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Civil Society Pledge for Fossil Free Politics has launched, and 96 organisations have already signed up! 🚀 Learn more about our new collaboration with @caneurope.org 👇
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/11/2025
The figures are out, but there's a whole day of activities planned in Belém to highlight the destructive role of big polluters at #COP30. If you're inside, head to the action at 8am local time. At 11am there's also a press conference #KickBigPollutersOut 🔥
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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees at the #COP30 climate talks in Brazil is a fossil fuel lobbyist. The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire. #KickOutTheSuits and #KickBigPollutersOut now! 📍 Read the full analysis: kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/11/2025
Working with the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition, Fossil Free Politics has done some more digging at the EU level, and it's not pleasant reading - especially if you're 🇫🇷 French or 🇮🇹 Italian. Their governments have rolled out the red carpet once more for some of the planet's biggest climate criminals.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/11/2025
📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist. New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil. Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵 kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 14/11/2025
"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com Time to kick them out? ⏰ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨 NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks. The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30. kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Not again!? 84 fossil fuel lobbyists were brought by EU countries to #COP30 😤 See the detailed results of the research done 👇 fossilfreepolitics.org/news/eu-brin... It is time to free politics from the influence of the fossil fuel industry 🔥 #FossilFreePolitics #FossilFreeEU #KickBigPollutersOut
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EU Commission keeps oil and gas lobbyists away from COP30, but France and Italy roll out red carpet - Fossil Free Politics
According to new research by Fossil Free Politics in collaboration with the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition, nine EU governments brought 84 fossil fuel lobbyists into COP30 on their official governme...
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚨 Kick Big #PollutersOut at COP30 tomorrow 🚨 📈 Data drops on how many fossil fuel lobbyists are in Belém ⏰ 12pm CET - Action - "Kick Out the Suits" 🎤 3pm CET - Press conference - on data and actions 🗣️ 8:45 CET - side event Protect! Reform! Deliver! ✊✊✊ kickbigpollutersout.org/Kick-Out-The...
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A letter signed by more than 100 organisations was sent to Hoekstra, asking not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30 🇧🇷 👍 Promisingly, there were no lobbyists in the official EU delegation last year 👎EU Member States still brought 113 lobbyists ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l... #COP30
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More than 100 organisations tell Hoekstra not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30! - Fossil Free Politics
As COP30 approaches, we're now calling on the EU's climate chief, Commissioner Wopka Hoekstra, to not bring fossil fuel lobbyists to the UN climate talks again this year, and to push member states to ...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 30/10/2025
NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
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Les Amis de la Terre France @amisdelaterre.org · 23/10/2025
✊ Victoire pour le climat : Total vient d'être condamnée pour greenwashing ! A la veille de la COP30, cette décision crée un précédent juridique majeur contre la désinformation climatique des majors pétrolières. Notre communiqué 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
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Total condamnée pour greenwashing : un précédent juridique majeur contre la désinformation climatique des majors pétrolières
Le tribunal judiciaire de Paris a rendu aujourd’hui une décision historique, première mondiale : il condamne TotalEnergies pour pratiques commerciales trompeuses en raison de ses allégations mensongèr...
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD. Its playbook? - Lobbying - Funding think tanks - Media sponsorships ⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it. www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/
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How Big Oil kills sustainability and climate legislation - SOMO
Inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD When the EU finally agreed on its landmark Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in 2024, it was hailed as a breakthro...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 30/09/2025
🎥 Film screening + debate 🎥 What: special preview screening of CEO's new doc on community resistance to the EU's green hydrogen drive. Followed by a debate + drinks 🍻 Where: Mundo Matonge, BXL When: 19h00 With: @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @counter-balance.bsky.social @attacdeutschland.bsky.social
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Join us 🤝 Together we will cut fossil fuels out of EU politics, and make space for the real solutions we all need. ✂️ fossilfreepolitics.org
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 15/09/2025
We've taken another step in tackling industry interference at the UN climate talks ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 Sustained campaigning from the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition means all non-govt participants heading to COP30 now have to declare who's funding their attendance. kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...
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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The EU's top court has just ruled that nuclear energy and fossil gas are "green" and count as sustainable investments 🤯 Shows you just how green the EU is (and the influence that the #gaslobby has over politics). Really disappointing. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Top EU court upholds nuclear green label
The EU's top court on Wednesday upheld the European Commission's decision to give a sustainable finance label to investments in natural gas and nuclear power, dismissing a complaint by Austria.
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Gastech 2025 has begun in Milan, bringing together oil majors and governments - behind a paywall 💰🤫 ENG: 😡 “Come all to the gas and gas derivatives fair!” It's time for Gastech 2025, “the world's largest event dedicated to natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, climate tech, and AI in the energy sector.”
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What antics have the fossil fuel enablers been up to over the summer? Law firm Marzulla Law, which supports groups fighting offshore wind farms, is pressuring Brown University to retract its research linking anti-wind groups to the fossil fuel industry. #FAIL www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The UK trying to do what the UK does best: second oil&gas and arms companies into government! Such a successful tactic in the past, foreign secretary David Lammy tries it again but faces massive push back. #fossilfreepolitics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments
Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Ever wondered how Europe got hooked on US gas? Based on research by our good friends at ARIA, this article shows how just one lobbyist can be enough to convince our leaders to go for American LNG. It's another reason we need to cut fossil fuels out of our politics. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it.
Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
ICYMI: Last week @corporateeurope.org was in the EU Parliament for a special screening of their new film about the struggle of South African communities against new green hydrogen projects. 🚨 SPOILER ALERT: Green hydrogen is being used by the fossil fuels industry to greenwash their activities 👀
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A conflict of interest that stinks to high heaven? Yep, that's exactly what it is! Lead author of a new IPCC report into reducing oil&gas emissions used to work for @saudiaramco.bsky.social for 18 years. via @globalenergymon.bsky.social' #InsideGas www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
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