Thanks so much for this kind note. And props to the entire @desmog.com team, especially the tireless folks who sprinted to update DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database alongside this reporting
Quite a good article by @desmog.com about the DOE Climate Working Group report. Well done, @sharonkelly.bsky.social.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/t...
The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic
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The Climate Working Group was hand-picked by Energy Secretary Chris Wright "for their rigor, honesty, and willingness to elevate the debate." We see their actual process in hundreds of pages of emails and documents, including attacks on mainstream scientists and institutions and rushed review.
Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal
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NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC
"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."
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"We don’t yet know why exactly PJM’s fossil fuel power plants failed during Winter Storm Fern, but gas supplies are already emerging as a culprit for some of the problems."
"Based on PJM data from GridStatus.io, during the 8:00 a.m. morning peak demand, gas-burning generation was down 10 GW, coal-fired generation was down 2 GW, and oil-burning generation was down 3 GW, all compared to the same time on January 24th."
“It would be akin to a tobacco company saying ‘we just make the cigarettes, we’re not responsible for the damage once you light up,’” said Brendan DeMelle, executive director of DeSmog, a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on climate change.
Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute charged with conspiracy in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan today by the AG for raising costs and destroying the climate.
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Get the full thread on @sharonkelly.bsky.social's reporting on ExxonMobil's history of avoiding climate accountability with industry docs dating back to the '60s and the context behind the oil major's backing of Carbon Measures from the editor who worked with her on the story 👇
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new accounting scheme which moves climate pollution “liabilities” to buyers’ books. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has the story for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/e...
“That cleaner LNG phase that was there a couple years ago, ‘let’s plant a few trees and call that an offset,’ that was all bullshit. We know it and everybody knows it. And I think we look bad for it at the end of the day”
More from Gulfstream LNG's CEO & others here: www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/g...
Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air #Pollution Laws: Report
@sharonkelly.bsky.social reports for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...
Important piece from @desmog.com‘s @rtakver.bsky.social!
The Trump administration's "climate working group" produced a report full of errors, typos, and climate denial talking points, according to a new review by upwards of 100 climate experts led by @andrewdessler.com. @sharonkelly.bsky.social and @ejgertz.bsky.social report for @desmog .
Big tech and big oil say AI can help cut climate-changing pollution.🌍
Meanwhile, they're mostly using AI to drill more oil🛢️, while handing it the keys to the ⚡ power grid.
My latest, for @desmog.com, on the race to use AI for fossil fuels underneath the greenwashing: www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
Sometimes it's hard to grasp the scale of data center projects and the amount of power they might use. Here's one attempt to explain that for a proposed project in a rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. There's a public hearing on it Tuesday www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...
Phenomenal reporting from @desmog.com’s Edward Donnelly.
County officials have significant say over data center development — which means lobbyists are now parachuting into rural spots like Coweta County, GA, working to reshape local zoning rules to benefit big tech
www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...
Tech bros love to say AI will fix climate change but oil companies are mostly using it to drill for more oil.
@sharonkelly.bsky.social was at an industry event where a Shell exec said 'about 70 percent of our technology effort' is on fossil fuel production.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
There is so much to unpack here: agentic AI operating without human oversight, AI running on fossil fuels also acquiring those fuels, the probability of AI being the cause of a natural disaster and the liability issues. #AI #Environment #Climate www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
“Just 14 percent of oil and gas producers said they use AI for emissions monitoring, leak detection, and other environmental tools, IBM’s survey found.
Twice as many (28 percent) reported using AI for oil and gas drilling”
More on how Big Oil uses AI, from @desmog
www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...
The LNG industry is also working to weaken the methane regulation, which may be one of the few policies of oversight on the US gas industry left (with Trump blowing up all domestic regulation)
Europe at risk of weakening its own rules under American pressure, locking in dependency on one supplier
U.S. LNG lobbying aimed at weakening EU methane rules
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States have legal duty to stop producing and using fossil fuels, top UN court rules
Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution
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American natural gas industry will find it "very, very challenging" to meet Europe's methane pollution standards, Center for LNG says.
More on the push to undercut Europe's climate rules to make room for US natural gas, including talk of reducing fines to $1, here:
www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/a...
Fun fact: Chris Wright is former CEO of oil company Liberty Energy and ex-director of oil & gas lobby group Western Energy Alliance.
Not mentioned by @economist.com
Heatwave is a weird time to publish climate denial from a fossil fuel lobbyist
www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u... @desmog.com
As Woodside moves forward on Louisiana LNG project (formerly Driftwood LNG), Australian unions & activists warn company's accidents are mounting.
"We’ve had a number of incidents, a number of near-misses, a number of injuries" says union organizer Doug Heath. "It’s the worst it’s been in 20 years"
As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data - DeSmog www.desmog.com/2025/06/11/a...
Hilarious to me that oil execs are privately freaking out about the Trump administration's chaos.
@sharonkelly.bsky.social has more in @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...
