Ben Stockton
@benrst.bsky.social
Investigative reporter and editor | Work in: WaPo, NYT, LA Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, etc | Get in touch: benrstockton@proton.me | Signal: benstockton.01
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ICYMI | Trump's pick for a senior role at Exim withdrew from the nomination process just days before he was due to appear before the Senate last week.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
ICYMI | Trump's pick for a senior role at Exim withdrew from the nomination process just days before he was due to appear before the Senate last week.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
ICYMI | Trump's pick for a senior role at Exim withdrew from the nomination process just days before he was due to appear before the Senate last week.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
Federal filings showed he'd spent most of the past decade working for a subsidiary of Evraz, the metals giant sanctioned by the UK in 2022.
My latest for CCR and Rolling Stone ⬇️
April 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My latest for CCR and Rolling Stone ⬇️
Latest for @climatereport.bsky.social w/ Rolling Stone
I wrote about a US agency you've probably never heard of and the quiet work it's doing to lay the groundwork for Trump's vision of American energy dominance globally
I wrote about a US agency you've probably never heard of and the quiet work it's doing to lay the groundwork for Trump's vision of American energy dominance globally
April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Latest for @climatereport.bsky.social w/ Rolling Stone
I wrote about a US agency you've probably never heard of and the quiet work it's doing to lay the groundwork for Trump's vision of American energy dominance globally
I wrote about a US agency you've probably never heard of and the quiet work it's doing to lay the groundwork for Trump's vision of American energy dominance globally
Reposted by Ben Stockton
NEW | 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.org/ustda-plan-f...
Inside the small agency with a grand plan for Trump’s global energy dominance – Centre for Climate Reporting
The 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.
climate-reporting.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
NEW | 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.org/ustda-plan-f...
ICYMI ✍️ I guest edited a newsletter for my alma mater @tbij.bsky.social the other week, looking at the impact of our work digging into COP28 conflicts of interest
⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!
⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!
What happens when the U.N. climate talks are hosted by a petrostate?
We join @benrst.bsky.social to reflect on #COP28, and how journalists and activists around the world are exposing #BigPolluters' stranglehold on climate policy in @tbij.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
We join @benrst.bsky.social to reflect on #COP28, and how journalists and activists around the world are exposing #BigPolluters' stranglehold on climate policy in @tbij.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
Exposing a climate conference's biggest conflict
I've got the inside scoop on 2023's COP scandal from an old colleague at the Centre for Climate Reporting
the-spark-tbij.beehiiv.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
ICYMI ✍️ I guest edited a newsletter for my alma mater @tbij.bsky.social the other week, looking at the impact of our work digging into COP28 conflicts of interest
⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!
⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!
Transparency International and 250+ other organisations calling for "dramatic overhaul" of COP negotiations to protect them from the influence of high polluting industries
March 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Transparency International and 250+ other organisations calling for "dramatic overhaul" of COP negotiations to protect them from the influence of high polluting industries
NEW by me for @climatereport.bsky.social / @theguardian.com
Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections
Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections
March 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
NEW by me for @climatereport.bsky.social / @theguardian.com
Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections
Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections
🎙️ ICYMI I was on Living on Earth talking about @climatereport.bsky.social's story with The Guardian on how US officials have been skipping climate meetings under Trump.
🔈 Listen here! www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
Working in international climate diplomacy? My Signal is benstockton.01
🔈 Listen here! www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
Working in international climate diplomacy? My Signal is benstockton.01
Living on Earth: US Ducks World Climate Meetings
The Trump Administration barred government scientists from attending a key UN climate science meeting in February 2025. What’s more, it seems the customary US task force including officials from the S...
www.loe.org
March 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎙️ ICYMI I was on Living on Earth talking about @climatereport.bsky.social's story with The Guardian on how US officials have been skipping climate meetings under Trump.
🔈 Listen here! www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
Working in international climate diplomacy? My Signal is benstockton.01
🔈 Listen here! www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
Working in international climate diplomacy? My Signal is benstockton.01
Reposted by Ben Stockton
NEW | 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.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @benrst.bsky.social & @theguardian.com
US officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0
Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramifications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
NEW | 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.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Story by @benrst.bsky.social & @theguardian.com
US 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...
NEW by me for CCR and The Guardian today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US officials have been absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0
Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramifications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
US 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...
NEW by me for CCR and The Guardian today www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Extinction Rebellion protesting outside McKinsey UK HQ after our story with the Guardian last year which dug into the extent of the firms work boosting fossil fuels worldwide. Five arrested so far, XR says.
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
February 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Extinction Rebellion protesting outside McKinsey UK HQ after our story with the Guardian last year which dug into the extent of the firms work boosting fossil fuels worldwide. Five arrested so far, XR says.
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Read it here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Reposted by Ben Stockton
Heritage Foundation in 2016: "Musk and his companies (Tesla, among others) have had their share and benefitted from an array of government handouts in the forms of government loans and special tax breaks, all without any say from the taxpayer."
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Heritage Foundation in 2016: "Musk and his companies (Tesla, among others) have had their share and benefitted from an array of government handouts in the forms of government loans and special tax breaks, all without any say from the taxpayer."
Musk: "The federal loan was very helpful... what the government loan really did was accelerate our progress."
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/f...
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/f...
February 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Musk: "The federal loan was very helpful... what the government loan really did was accelerate our progress."
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/f...
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/f...
Heritage Foundation in 2025: "We're celebrating at Heritage the first phases of the unearthing of the grift and corruption that has happened in this city... having someone with the success of Elon Musk be a partner in this is really good."
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Heritage Foundation Head Says Washington Needs 'Creative Destruction'
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts talks about how his organization's Project 2025 is influencing the Trump administration and Elon Musk government efficiency drive. (Source: Bloomberg)
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Heritage Foundation in 2025: "We're celebrating at Heritage the first phases of the unearthing of the grift and corruption that has happened in this city... having someone with the success of Elon Musk be a partner in this is really good."
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Reposted by Ben Stockton
More on McKinsey and its climate pretenses. Go Guardian.
Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian
Consulting 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
amp.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:02 PM
More on McKinsey and its climate pretenses. Go Guardian.
Reposted by Ben Stockton
REVEALED | 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...
"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...
Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows
Consulting 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
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:20 PM
REVEALED | 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...
"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...
🚨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...
"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...
Revealed: McKinsey clients had ‘rising share of global emissions’, internal analysis shows
Consulting 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
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:15 PM
🚨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...
"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...
Reposted by Ben Stockton
‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
Interviews 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…
dlvr.it
November 20, 2024 at 1:03 PM
‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
NEW | @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...
‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:43 PM
NEW | @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...
NEW: @amywestervelt.bsky.social and I dug into the PR machine that has worked with Al Jaber throughout his career and ultimately helped put an oil boss in charge of COP climate-reporting.org/al-jaber-cop...
Inside the campaign that put an oil boss in charge of a climate summit – Centre for Climate Report...
Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the UAE’s national oil company, mobilized a PR army to secure the COP28 presidency despite concerns over his green credentials.
climate-reporting.org
October 25, 2023 at 12:33 PM
NEW: @amywestervelt.bsky.social and I dug into the PR machine that has worked with Al Jaber throughout his career and ultimately helped put an oil boss in charge of COP climate-reporting.org/al-jaber-cop...