Jesse Coleman
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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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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:
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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.
Seems like the oil barons purchased domestic energy policy, but probably should have sprung for the premium international energy policy plan.
September 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Seems like the oil barons purchased domestic energy policy, but probably should have sprung for the premium international energy policy plan.
And that underestimation is the intentional work of the oil industry. In 2023 the chair of a powerful oil lobbying group told EPA the ind was reducing methane pollution, though his company increased flaring 692% that year. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And that underestimation is the intentional work of the oil industry. In 2023 the chair of a powerful oil lobbying group told EPA the ind was reducing methane pollution, though his company increased flaring 692% that year. www.propublica.org/article/texa...