Writing in the climate-sceptic Sunday Telegraph, UK's Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is all in on "Drill Baby Drill"
An all-you-can-eat buffet of half-truths, falsehoods and magical thinking
Most plastics, chemicals, artificial fertilisers, pesticides & synthetic fabrics are made from fossil fuels & they emit pollution throughout their life cycle, from extraction to processing to use & disposal. Fossil fuels give birth to so many major pollution sources.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
🧑⚖️ The trial of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Nigerian minister for petroleum resources, kicked off in London today. She stands accused of awarding government contracts worth millions to high-profile businessmen in return for bribes whilst she sat at the helm of Nigeria’s booming oil industry.
SO MANY people are promoting this, come on
🔴 NEW 🔴
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
AI’s soaring power demand is being used to justify new gas/coal plants “cleaned” by CCS. Track record: 88% failures, big costs, bigger delays. With #COP30, close CCS/offset loopholes and align NDCs with 1.5°C. Read: bit.ly/4pgcG55
Let's not power tomorrow’s AI with yesterday’s fuels.
Oil & gas companies sure get lots of access to Carney's ministers....
Follow the @fedlobbot.bsky.social for updates on how much lobbying is happening
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Spring 2026 Legal Internship (Climate & Energy – Geneva) at CIEL.
🌍 Calling future environmental lawyers!
🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025
🔗 cielorg.bamboohr.com/careers/117?...
Join a team working at the intersection of #HumanRights, #ClimateJustice, and international law.
They’ll take part in two critical workshops:
🔹 “Investigating false solutions: geoengineering and desalination plants”
🔹 “Climate litigation in the age of misinformation”
They aim to equip journalists with tools to expose greenwashing, track false climate fixes, and navigate legal battles.
Next Friday in Budapest, CIEL’s @duycks.bsky.social and @barnabypace.bsky.social join journalists and scientists at #ClimateArena2025 - an inspiring working conference by @journalismarena.eu to strengthen climate reporting across Europe.
📍 Corvinus University, Budapest
🗓️ October 10
ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US.
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w
⚠️ More than half of all fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. 🛢️ The result? A system that harms our health, drives climate change, and threatens food security. 🍽️ It’s time to rethink what’s on our plates.
👇 Learn more about the frack-to-fork supply chain.
Insurance math:
🔥 Communities hit by floods + fires = uninsurable.
🏭 Polluters driving disasters = cash + coverage.
As we brace for hurricane season, @ellejurca.bsky.social, @barnabypace.bsky.social & @cslidders.bsky.social make it clear: the system is broken.
The Gulf Coast — home to more than 84% of US plastics’ production and nearly half of US petroleum refining capacity — is bracing for more than five major hurricanes predicted for the Atlantic Ocean this year, all while federal protections are rolled back.
Latest from @ellejurca.bsky.social and me.
I know no one has money anymore but publications should probably consider getting proper editors and fact checkers in again, as opposed to "overworked people who'll give your copy a quick look over before publishing", which is what most of them have now
🛢️ Trump's EPA is helping Big Oil while communities pay the price. @ciel.org's analysis reveals companies lobbying millions to gut pollution rules are the same ones expanding toxic facilities at newly exempt sites.
Read more:
❌ Plastics Treaty not for sale!
Oil producing countries want to sell out the #PlasticsTreaty to the fossil fuel lobby! We can’t let them!
Watch and share the video to demand world leaders to step up and deliver a strong treaty that cuts plastic production!
www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty
⚠️ Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have flooded #PlasticsTreaty talks at a record high. They're working with petrostates to distract, delay, and drag the treaty toward the lowest common denominator.
#KickPollutersOut #INC5-2
👉 Read more: bit.ly/41wUn1L
Did you know the plastic industry is Making Oil Great Again? 🛢️🤑🛢️
But “Drill Baby Drill” doesn’t have to be the future for plastic (99% of which is made of oil or gas) or the planet!
🎥 Watch & check out @Greenpeaceuk’s new report
www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...
Tyre-wear particles are a major source of microplastics that harm the environment.
The good news? Prevention and mitigation can help to #BeatPollution.
Explore more from this online brief: www.unep.org/resources/em...
There is no escape from #Microplastic and #Nanoplastics, but there's #inequality in the impact of this, as all of the other impacts of the #FossilFuel profiteers
#PlasticsTreaty
Great to see @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social take up the issue of fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbying at the plastics treaty talks including our @ciel.org finding of 220 lobbyists at INC5.
www.ciel.org/news/inc-5-l...
Memes I never thought I'd have to make....
The irony on top is politico carrying adverts for Equinor about "oil and gas powering the energy transition" and a brand survey for fossil fuel companies around their reporting.
🚨UK TAX HAVENS MISS TRANSPARENCY DEADLINE🚨
UK offshore financial centres have failed to comply with the deadline for ending corporate secrecy, enabling dirty money to stay hidden in the UK.
This undermines the UK's anti-corruption efforts and weakens national security.
More in @theguardian.com ⤵️
It’s so important to understand WHY the new Senate bill has such drastic provisions to kill renewable energy
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”
It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.
