Reposted by Julia Kane
New @fieldnotes.co investigation: the oil & gas industry is working hand-in-glove with the Trump admin to gut federal methane regulations.
Corporations want to keep the veneer of regulations—and “not much more” than that.
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‘And Not Much More’: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry’s Campaign Against…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
![Screenshot of a quote from O.H. Skinner, Alliance for Consumers' executive director, reading: "I'm not an expert on these cases, but you're starting to see them. And I think the first one was just filed as a civil case in Oregon based on the heat dome—I still don't know what a heat dome is, but it is apparently a bad thing—where the estate of a person who died sued energy companies claiming that they had caused a climate homicide because the effects of climate change had made the environment in this person's life so unlivable that their death was literally caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Now, we can all sit here and say, 'Oh, the train of causation,' but I think one thing that Justin [Anderson — ExxonMobil's Assistant General Counsel for Litigation] can probably explain in his discussion is, if that's a theory that gets legs, that's just thousands, a million cases over a long enough arc, right? And they don't need— they just need enough of them to slip past a motion to dismiss and start to be like, 'Well, somebody died at 52 instead of 82.' Anybody who's in here and has ever done an insurance litigation case, like, those numbers are gonna get big and they're gonna get big fast."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dx74sfer64nk32orddcx6yvj/bafkreihonzku4z53un2j3bx24iebdivvdsndnu3s7xwfbkqnzimlpshfly)
