Jesse Coleman
@jessebcoleman.bsky.social
Research Director, @fieldnotes.co. Investigating the influence of corporations, lobbyists, and the super rich on our politics and society. Let me know if you see any of that kind of thing around...
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Greenpeace’s Fight With Pipeline Giant Exposes a Legal Loophole
www.nytimes.com
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer secretly funded a front group to influence the North Dakota court in the company's ongoing effort to destroy Greenpeace. The front group is run by infamous dirty tricks PR firm DCI Group. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Come for the free-speech stakes; stay for the part where I find the connection between an otherwise random insurance agent who is the front group’s on-paper president and the high-powered shadow lobbyist behind the elaborate astroturf campaign.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Come for the free-speech stakes; stay for the part where I find the connection between an otherwise random insurance agent who is the front group’s on-paper president and the high-powered shadow lobbyist behind the elaborate astroturf campaign.
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“Energy Transfer is deploying its public relations puppets like GAIN and rallying its fossil fuel allies to amplify its inflammatory rhetoric.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Greenpeace’s Fight With Pipeline Giant Exposes a Legal Loophole
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“Energy Transfer is deploying its public relations puppets like GAIN and rallying its fossil fuel allies to amplify its inflammatory rhetoric.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer secretly funded a front group to influence the North Dakota court in the company's ongoing effort to destroy Greenpeace. The front group is run by infamous dirty tricks PR firm DCI Group. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Greenpeace’s Fight With Pipeline Giant Exposes a Legal Loophole
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Pipeline giant Energy Transfer secretly funded a front group to influence the North Dakota court in the company's ongoing effort to destroy Greenpeace. The front group is run by infamous dirty tricks PR firm DCI Group. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Incredible reporting by @ericlipton.nytimes.com & @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how oil billionaire Harold Hamm has used his close relationship w/ Trump to enrich himself by gutting environmental regs, giving the O&G industry massive tax breaks, & boosting drilling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
The Oilman Who Pushed Trump to Go All In on Fossil Fuels
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Incredible reporting by @ericlipton.nytimes.com & @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social on how oil billionaire Harold Hamm has used his close relationship w/ Trump to enrich himself by gutting environmental regs, giving the O&G industry massive tax breaks, & boosting drilling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm's wish list has been fulfilled by Doug Burgum's DOI. Using a ground water study paid for by Hamm's company, Continental, DOI is set to permit thousands of wells in a contested area of Wyoming www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
The Oilman Who Pushed Trump to Go All In on Fossil Fuels
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oil billionaire Harold Hamm's wish list has been fulfilled by Doug Burgum's DOI. Using a ground water study paid for by Hamm's company, Continental, DOI is set to permit thousands of wells in a contested area of Wyoming www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...
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In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
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Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
heated.world
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common?
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common?
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
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Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here:
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here:
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
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The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.
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🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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🚨A new investigation from @fieldnotes.co + @us.theguardian.com finds that major US soda & snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign to pit Trump’s MAGA against RFK’s MAHA—all in a bid to protect their bottom lines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨A new investigation from @fieldnotes.co + @us.theguardian.com finds that major US soda & snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign to pit Trump’s MAGA against RFK’s MAHA—all in a bid to protect their bottom lines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
A Top Trump Interior Official Once Pushed To Privatize Wildlife
In the 1990s, Karen Budd-Falen challenged Wyoming’s authority to regulate hunting on behalf of ranchers.
www.publicdomain.media
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
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if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
Gulfstream LNG CEO calls out industry’s “irrational exuberance” - Gas Outlook
A flurry of deals at Gastech showed interest in LNG growth. But industry leaders warned that investors will get "squeezed” by oversupply.
gasoutlook.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
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Be sure to check out this panel happening today if you are attending #ClimateWeekNYC! Our own @kellyemitchell.bsky.social will be there along with these other incredible voices - don't miss it!
Wednesday at #ClimateWeekNYC: "Fossil Fuel Accountability in the Trump Era"
Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and
featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.
Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and
featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Be sure to check out this panel happening today if you are attending #ClimateWeekNYC! Our own @kellyemitchell.bsky.social will be there along with these other incredible voices - don't miss it!
Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Texas Oil Boom Leaves a Toxic Legacy of Its Own Making
Toxic wastewater is spreading across America’s biggest oil field, posing a pressing threat to a basin that has grown into a cornerstone of global markets
www.bloomberg.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.
Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?
Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off.
The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.
www.wsj.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?