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Attn: climate/energy reporters — EPA will propose a rule gutting methane standards in "days not weeks." @fieldnotes.co just posted our briefing on how the oil & gas industry has been working behind the scenes w/ the Trump admin to get this done. w/ @rebleber.bsky.social & @rebeccajohn.bsky.social:

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WEBINAR: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry's Campaign Against Methane Regulations

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

new story from me and @emdashsanders.bsky.social: Attorneys for oil companies tried to convince SCOTUS that climate lawsuits should be stopped. Their arguments could reach into state-level cases against powerful industries beyond just oil and gas. pointsourcenews.org/boulder-exxo...

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The Supreme Court justices weren’t buying some of Big Oil’s arguments

“A little slippery,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of one maneuver.

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I stared at Justice Kavanaugh for ~2 hours (only justice I could clearly see from my nosebleed SCOTUS seat) during the first case of the term: a hugely consequential bid by Big Oil to kill climate lawsuits Here's @rebleber.bsky.social and my take on what happened pointsourcenews.org/boulder-exxo...

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The Supreme Court justices weren’t buying some of Big Oil’s arguments

“A little slippery,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of one maneuver.

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Point Source News @pointsourcenews.org · 05/10/2026

today the Supreme Court is hearing a major climate case over a Boulder county lawsuit against Exxon and Suncor over climate damages and deception; the decision can determine if the case proceeds to trial @emdashsanders.bsky.social is reporting from inside the court! stay tuned for more coverage...

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Point Source News @pointsourcenews.org · 25/09/2026

Climate reporters @emorwee.bsky.social and @emdashsanders.bsky.social met up at #ClimateWeekNYC to ask each other how they’re feeling about corporate greenwashing and AI’s lovefest with Big Oil. Turns out, they had thoughts.

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm a reporter and I'd be interested in learning more about this - RLeber@pointsourcenews.org

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's funny to me that Vox.com, literally owned by a Murdoch, is still advertising itself as "independent media" - via popups on home site

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd love to learn more about this new journal! Who do you recommend getting in touch with?

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Urban heat island effects are bad enough. Clustering data centers in cities, each of which can produce the heat of 54,000 houses, will make it exponentially worse, especially in already hot places like Phoenix Gift link to this great @bloomberg.com infographic: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities

As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

See you at noon!

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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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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hey friends, I'm in NYC for Climate Week, my first time in a long time at this circus :) if it's been a while since we've met up, say hi!

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m so sorry for your loss. I worked with Joe over a decade ago and was grateful to reconnect at the SEJ/Penn conference a few years ago.

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I worked with Dr. Joe Romm in my first job, on his site Climate Progress. I thought he was fearless then, and he remained so throughout his career. His writing inspired and taught me, and many many others. Saddened by this unexpected loss. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...

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Remembering Dr. Joe Romm

It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oil companies have presented themselves "as 'good-faith' (their words) partners eager to act while at the same time working behind the scenes" to head off methane regulations An important investigation out from @juliakane.bsky.social fieldnotes.substack.com/p/an-oil-exe...

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An Oil Exec’s Notes Spell Out Industry’s Methane Duplicity

A Fieldnotes investigation reveals how industry is supporting the illusion of regulation while avoiding the real thing.

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Point Source News @pointsourcenews.org · 17/09/2026

As climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies get closer to trial, oil giants and a constellation of well-funded allies are deploying multiple strategies to try to undermine the cases or completely immunize the industry from liability. Here's a roadmap of all the ways they're doing it.

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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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Julia Kane @juliakane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Attn: climate reporters — The Trump admin will soon release a proposal to gut Biden's landmark methane rule. @fieldnotes.co is teaming up w/ @rebeccajohn.bsky.social & @rebleber.bsky.social on a briefing re: the O&G industry's decades-long effort to avoid regs and the current plan to defang them.

Graphic advertising webinar hosted by Fieldnotes and the Center for Climate Integrity.
Title: "And not much more": Inside the Oil & Gas Industry's Campaign Against Methane Regulations
When: 9/16/2026 1:00pm EST
Register: https://tinyurl.com/methane-briefing

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's been a million years since I've been to NYC Climate Week but looks like I'm going to be there year. Hope to reconnect with folks + hear about what's happening

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

great investigation from @rsanta.bsky.social -- excited to see more of her reporting soon at Mother Jones!

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The fossil fuel industry lied to us. For decades, they’ve peddled the myth that “natural” gas is "clean" to pad their bottom line. @climateintegrity.org's new report rips the mask off: climateintegrity.org/projects/nat...

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

great insights here from @billmckibben.bsky.social on the success of natural gas deception — "if the PR campaign flummoxed me, imagine how well it worked on people who weren’t paying much attention at all" billmckibben.substack.com/p/bloated-an...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"This image of gas as clean is a fraud at least 50 years in the making." I'm a few days late to this but this work by @rebleber.bsky.social and @rebeccajohn.bsky.social on the decades-long effort to make everyone think a fossil fuel is something else entirely really is excellent:

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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Excellent summary of the findings from our new report published in the NYT yesterday. If you haven't had time to make your way through the full report and 200+ documents uncovered by @rebeccajohn.bsky.social and @rebleber.bsky.social yet, this is a great introduction! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

Screenshot of a New York Times headline reading "Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane's Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest"

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 20/07/2026

A groundbreaking new report shows the gas industry knew 50 years ago that natural gas was a dirty fuel, yet promoted it for decades as "Clean Energy for Today and Tomorrow." Read DeSmog's latest. #CenterforClimateIntegrity #RebeccaJohn #RebeccaLeber #methane www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/h...

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How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ve been off social media for a minute and rusty, good note!

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

💥 The oil/gas industry “publicly underplayed the concerns over methane. And as the natural gas industry faced increasing competition from electric stoves and heaters, industry groups worked on an advertising campaign that highlighted gas as a clean fuel.” Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

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Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Article)

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

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Josh Voorhees @joshvoorhees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New one from me: Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm, aka Trump’s ‘original oil guy,’ spent years downplaying the risks of a war from Iran. Now, he aims to profit from an energy crisis he assured US officials wouldn’t happen. 🔎The long version is @fieldnotes.co : fieldnotes.co/reporting/ha...

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Trump’s ‘Original Oil Guy’ Spent Years Dismissing the Risks of a War…

Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.

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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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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Great summary by Sarah Hoffman at desmog on new report by Center for Climate Integrity on decades-old misinformation campaign by big oil & gas on natural gas, methane, and climate. www.desmog.com/2026/07/20/h...

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How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chances are you've heard that methane leaks make natural gas worse for the climate than we've been led to believe. And yet many of us still think of gas as the "clean" fossil fuel. That didn't happen by accident.

Cover of a July 2026 report from the Center for Climate Integrity entitled "The Fraud of 'Clean' Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution"

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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Our major new investigation is out today packed full of revelations about the oil and gas industry’s decades-long deception over natural gas. We show how big oil and gas created the myth of “clean” natural gas before deceptively marketing it as a climate solution. @climateintegrity.org

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

4 - New docs from J Walter Thompson detail this campaign that emphasized gas: “burns with no smoke and virtually no emissions” "is clean energy” “does not ruin the air we breathe" “can help us have a cleaner world”

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

3- In the early 70s, fearful the public was turning away from natural gas because of pollution, the American Gas Association had an advertising firm that worked with oil and tobacco cos respond. AGA launched a widespread “Gas, Clean Energy for Today and Tomorrow” campaign, new docs show.

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

2- Oil companies were in fact already aware of extensive, world-wide methane pollution caused by operations. In 1966, the head of a high level Shell study group wrote, "Natural gas is liberated in embarrassingly large quantities at oil fields.”

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1- API was notified in a 1968 commissioned review that pollution from “oil fields” and “distribution system leakage” was contributing to carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere and that natural atmospheric sinks could be “overburdened by excessive emissions."

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here are some key things my coauthor @rebeccajohn.bsky.social and I found ⬇️

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is the first investigation to trace the history of the oil and gas industry's response to its methane pollution problem, and is based on public records requests, internal industry communications, archival records, scientific papers, and interviews. climateintegrity.org/projects/nat...

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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A major new investigation out today with new revelations about the oil and gas industry's long-running deception over natural gas. We lay out in new details and documents how big oil and gas manufactured the myth of "clean" natural gas.

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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ever wondered why so many people think natural gas is "clean" and a climate solution? 🚨 Our new report out today explains why 🚨

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