Reposted by Lawrence CarterVerbatim @verbatim-media.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Our yearlong investigation reveals Nigel Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera. 611664
Reposted by Lawrence CarterThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/08/2025Breaking: Exxon has held secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company about resuming business in the country.on.wsj.comExclusive | Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to RussiaResuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022 207856
Reposted by Lawrence CarterCentre for Climate Reporting @climatereport.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🚨 NEW 🚨 Trump’s 2024 campaign chief claimed he secretly worked with Australia’s Liberals ahead of the general election Leader Peter Dutton has rejected comparisons to Trump But Chris LaCivita told undercover reporters he had helped them – and the public ‘never knew I was there’ 41611
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025NEW UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION, ahead of the Australian election on Saturday. The Liberal Party has distanced itself from Trump and the MAGA playbook. But we reveal claims by Trump's campaign chief, that he helped the Liberals ahead of the election. 11110
Reposted by Lawrence CarterScott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025#Breaking Dutton sought help from Trump campaign 👇 ‘‘I was in Australia two weeks ago helping the Liberal party there, on some of their structural issues that they were having with Peter Dutton,” LaCivita said on 16 April. #NoTrumpForAUS #DontRiskDutton #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comTrump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaignExclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in... 75629
Reposted by Lawrence CarterGuardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 01/05/2025EXCLUSIVE: Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaigntheguardian.comTrump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaignExclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in... 06637
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025NEW UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION, ahead of the Australian election on Saturday. The Liberal Party has distanced itself from Trump and the MAGA playbook. But we reveal claims by Trump's campaign chief, that he helped the Liberals ahead of the election. 11110
Reposted by Lawrence CarterCentre for Climate Reporting @climatereport.bsky.social · 23/04/2025NEW | How a small US government agency is planning to push US gas to emerging markets around the world, as part of Trump's energy dominance agenda. climate-reporting.org/ustda-plan-f...climate-reporting.orgInside the small agency with a grand plan for Trump’s global energy dominance – Centre for Climate ReportingThe U.S. Trade and Development Agency is working to push gas to emerging markets as part of Donald Trump’s plans for global energy dominance. 153
Reposted by Lawrence CarterBen Stockton @benrst.bsky.social · 23/04/2025My latest for CCR and Rolling Stone ⬇️ 0155
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Our latest investigation by @benrst.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Lawrence CarterUnearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🐄 JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, says it’s cleaning up its supply chain in the Amazon by the end of this year. 🌳 We spoke to 30+ ranchers and industry leaders. The vast majority said JBS will miss its target: it’s “humanly impossible”, said one. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/04/17/j...unearthed.greenpeace.orgJBS is likely to fail to deliver on its Amazon deforestation promise, ranchers say 25222
Reposted by Lawrence CarterGlobal Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 31/03/2025In this chapter, @lawrencecarter.bsky.social explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public: twp.ai/1VGuZZtwp.aiLobbyingThe chapter explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public. 032
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Read our latest investigation (and also pls follow our new CCR Bluesky account!) 151
Reposted by Lawrence CarterNick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 14343111821
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Read our latest investigation (and also pls follow our new CCR Bluesky account!) 151
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025As with recent climate rollbacks by BP and Shell, it is absolutely wild how so many journalists and editors just accepted the spin that oil boss Al Jaber/UAE cares about tackling climate change. Now he’s in the U.S. saying it’s time to “make energy great again” 👏 on.ft.com/43Q8vFjon.ft.comAdnoc chief Sultan al-Jaber: ‘It’s time to make energy great again’The oil boss and COP28 president on what the Trump era means for his industry — and being a ‘climate realist’ 12911
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025As with recent climate rollbacks by BP and Shell, it is absolutely wild how so many journalists and editors just accepted the spin that oil boss Al Jaber/UAE cares about tackling climate change. Now he’s in the U.S. saying it’s time to “make energy great again” 👏 on.ft.com/43Q8vFjon.ft.comAdnoc chief Sultan al-Jaber: ‘It’s time to make energy great again’The oil boss and COP28 president on what the Trump era means for his industry — and being a ‘climate realist’ 12911
Reposted by Lawrence CarterBen Stockton @benrst.bsky.social · 25/02/2025US officials appear to have missed a number of climate meetings since Trump took office. Surprising? Perhaps not, but it marks a potentially significant shift from his first term. NEW by me for CCR and The Guardian today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramifications 079
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025NEW | US officials appear to have missed a number of climate meetings since Trump took office, marking a potentially significant shift from his first term. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Story by @benrst.bsky.social & @theguardian.comtheguardian.comUS officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramifications 133
Reposted by Lawrence CarterDeSmog @desmog.com · 17/02/2025🔴 LEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference 🔴 A list of attendees viewed by DeSmog shows fossil fuel companies represented alongside major religious right groups at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event.desmog.comLEAKED: Oil Execs and Trump Allies Attend Jordan Peterson’s ARC ConferenceExecutives from some of the world’s biggest oil and gas firms are listed as attendees at a conservative conference in London whose keynote speakers include the leader of the Heritage Foundation – the ... 169557
Reposted by Lawrence CarterGlobal Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 15/02/2025✨ GIJN's NEW Investigating Fossil Fuels Guide In this chapter, @lawrencecarter.bsky.social explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public. twp.ai/1RMAeMtwp.aiGuide to Investigating Fossil Fuels: LobbyingThe chapter explores how fossil fuel companies seek to influence decision-makers and provides advice on uncovering evidence of these efforts and alerting the public. 174
Reposted by Lawrence CarterCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 13/02/2025🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉coveringclimatenow.orgThe Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate NowEntry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent... 312189
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025I wrote a chapter on how to investigate oil and gas lobbying for GIJN’s new climate change journalism guidebook. You can read it here 👇 073
Reposted by Lawrence CarterKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/02/2025Equinor - Cutting their 2030 renewable target - Putting a range for their intensity target (ie, weakening it) - And completely removing their target for renewable energy capital expenditure aka: "we don't need to greenwash anymore, so why would we bother?" 23014
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Russ Vought is set for a confirmation hearing this afternoon. He accidentally told our undercover reporter his plans to erode democratic norms and change America forever. 01912
Reposted by Lawrence CarterUnearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 27/12/2024In August, @lawrencecarter.bsky.social and Tom Costello at the Centre for Climate Reporting published a secretly recorded video of Russel Vought, a Project 2025 co-author, laying out his secret work preparing for a 2nd Trump term. Vought is Trump's pick to head the office of administration & budget.climate-reporting.orgUndercover in Project 2025 – Centre for Climate ReportingThe secretive “second phase" and the radical policies set for rollout on day one of a new Trump administration 273
Reposted by Lawrence CarterDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years - Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says @IEA #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comCoal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for yearsSpike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 12513
Reposted by Lawrence CarterJustin Guay @guayjg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024It’s almost like the industry took advantage of a crisis to create a hype supercycle that was divorced from the reality of actual demand Yeah, almost like we don’t need all that LNG after all 🤔 182
Reposted by Lawrence CarterPatrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024In an archetypal display of hubris, BP and Shell are exiting renewable energy generation, 5 years after wading into the sector with all the arrogance and distain you’d expect of people who make their money from some of the most heavily subsidised products in history www.ft.com/content/318e... 14223
Reposted by Lawrence CarterPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...democracyforsale.substack.comMusk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracyKeir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences 731618913
Reposted by Lawrence CarterSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 23/11/2024More on McKinsey and its climate pretenses. Go Guardian.amp.theguardian.comRevealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows | Oil and gas companies | The GuardianConsulting giant had said it engages with clients to help them transition to cleaner energy even as it knew they were in line to exceed climate targets 321449
Reposted by Lawrence CarterKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2024One hell of a read on how the US utility Dominion Energy, based in the data centre growth hotspot Virginia, is using high projected growth in data centres to justify new fossil fuel infrastructure -->> archive.ph/V2Hm3 (archive link so ppl outside the US can access)archive.ph 65421
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Great scoop from Damian Carrington at the Guardian. Classic Saudi obstruction… 041
Reposted by Lawrence CarterZach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 20/11/2024next week the world is supposed to finalise a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution my new investigation uncovers the PR and lobbying strategy behind Big Oil's influential initiative to 'end plastic waste' with @emmahoward.bsky.social unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a... 7328166
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024REVEALED | Internal McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust global climate goals. "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming... this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRevealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis showsConsulting giant had said it engages with clients to help them transition to cleaner energy even as it knew they were in line to exceed climate targets 23230
Reposted by Lawrence CarterBen Stockton @benrst.bsky.social · 21/11/2024🚨NEW🚨 "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming trajectory… this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." Internal 2021 McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust climate goals www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRevealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis showsConsulting giant had said it engages with clients to help them transition to cleaner energy even as it knew they were in line to exceed climate targets 4127
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024REVEALED | Internal McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust global climate goals. "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming... this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRevealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis showsConsulting giant had said it engages with clients to help them transition to cleaner energy even as it knew they were in line to exceed climate targets 23230
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024NEW | Our major new investigation reveals how McKinsey & Company is helping to boost fossil fuel production and use around the world, while at the same time claiming to be a climate ally. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsInterviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis 27950
Reposted by Lawrence CarterAlice Ross @aliceross.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a... 1117
Reposted by Lawrence CarterThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/11/2024‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsdlvr.it‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsInterviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis Two giant, mirrored walls are set to rise out of the sands of the Arabian desert. They will run parallel for more than… 324070
Reposted by Lawrence CarterKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2024Huge, detailed new analysis of Mckinsey's fossil fuel clients - I know you already think it's bad but trust me, it is *worse* than that -->> www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsInterviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis 18301168
Reposted by Lawrence CarterBen Stockton @benrst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024NEW | @hajmedd.bsky.social and I spent the last several months digging into McKinsey's work with its fossil fuel clients. Here's our story with the Guardian, ft. Koch Industries, China and a controversial Saudi government program to hook poor countries on oil www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsInterviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis 24323
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024NEW | Our major new investigation reveals how McKinsey & Company is helping to boost fossil fuel production and use around the world, while at the same time claiming to be a climate ally. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuelsInterviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis 27950
Reposted by Lawrence CarterEmma Howard @emmahoward.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Hello Bluesky!🔵Starting on here the way I mean to go on... Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste". Spoiler: it's not managed to unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...unearthed.greenpeace.orgCompanies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned upThe Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days 516071
Reposted by Lawrence CarterAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024There are 206 bones in the human body, which is way too many. My administration will cut this down to 100 bones 381507268
Reposted by Lawrence CarterPatrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 15/11/2024#BREAKING🚨 At least 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists registered for #COP29, dwarfing delegations sent by the most climate vulnerable nations As UN giants warn that COPs are no longer fit for purpose, this analysis shows precisely why kickbigpollutersout.org/COP29FossilF... 34325
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This organisation, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, styles itself as the gas version of OPEC. Its aim is to ensure a gas heavy global energy system, with little regard for the climate impacts of this approach. 062
Reposted by Lawrence CarterLawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024If you’re wondering what’s planned for Trump’s second term, we went undercover and met with one of his key advisors. Russell Vought spent the last few months overseeing a team drafting exec orders for Day 1 - including detailed plans for mass deportations and using the military against protestors. 56431
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024If you’re wondering what’s planned for Trump’s second term, we went undercover and met with one of his key advisors. Russell Vought spent the last few months overseeing a team drafting exec orders for Day 1 - including detailed plans for mass deportations and using the military against protestors. 56431
