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Clearing the PR Pollution That Clouds Climate Science.

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Without bonds in place, companies lack a critical incentive to do the cleanup work—and it’s unclear who will ultimately foot the bill. Dive into the full investigation by @joefassler https://t.co/fOwhRLPS09

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In 2019 Colorado passed reforms to spur the oil and gas industry to pay for its own cleanup. Our investigation with @GuardianUS digs into how the regulator instead quietly let the three biggest oil companies off the hook 🧵 https://t.co/fOwhRLPS09

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Regulators say contractors for these same companies, Chevron, Oxy, and Civitas, submitted falsified documents for hundreds of cleanup sites. Many of the tampered-with documents related to sites on our limbo list—plugged but quietly exempted from bonding, despite their unmet cleanup obligations.

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🔴 NEW - Two Thirds of Reform’s Wales Shadow Cabinet Are Ex-Tories

Welsh Reform labelled a “retirement home for failed Conservatives”.
https://t.co/6o0dsqdGOj

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🔴 NEW: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’

In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution.

This year-long investigation, spanning seven countries and 15 dealerships, was coordinated by @ClimateWhistles & conducted with a consortium of 10 European media.

You can read our write-up here:

https://t.co/4jPpNy4gKE

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Today, Climate Whistleblowers (CW) and a consortium of European media partners publish Unrestricted, a cross-border investigation spanning 7 European countries.

Unrestricted examines how KTM, the motorcycle giant, facilitates the widespread derestriction of an entire line of its motorcycles before they reach customers, increasing emissions and noise pollution.

Unrestricted, ten years after Dieselgate, raises questions about enforcement, accountability, and compliance to environmental regulations in the transport sector.

With @lemondefr, @paper_trail_m, @espressonline, @el_pais, @webstandardat, @derspiegel, @ORF, @DeSmog, @ClimateReport_, @ZDF.

🔗Watch the full video➡️ https://t.co/5Gf9mVmvCo

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❗️NEW- What does 'Economic Reconciliation' mean? According to industry representatives, it means faster approval times for fossil fuel and mining projects.

https://t.co/DPblRqzqaD

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🚨 Instead of building its promised carbon capture and storage project, the Oil Sands Alliance is pushing for more environmental rollbacks.

Was it always a boondoggle?

https://t.co/elkmROGwPC

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🔴 NEW - Industry-Linked Studies Disproportionately Advocate Meat Consumption

Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has “corrosive effects on public health debates”.
https://t.co/JL6u6JmDZS

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The CEO of a major climate denier group, the Heartland Institute, brought a new AI-era twist on an old message at ALEC's 2025 annual meeting: Bring back coal - to fire massive data centers. https://t.co/W3LpLVKeer

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🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland

Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.
https://t.co/ns85pWduW5

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🚨NEW🚨: Their energy-saving tips are genuine. The promotional tags are clearly visible. But the message conveyed by these Italian influencers is clear: Solving the climate crisis is a matter of small consumer choices, not a rapid phase-out of oil and gas. https://t.co/UXjxYAHeBK

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https://t.co/yVR8RrQiDb In what ways is the climate crisis a crisis of modern men? And what new models of masculinity are emerging in service of planetary health? Join us to explore these questions and more at a special online event on May 28 hosted by DeSmog, the Centre for Climate Psychology and the Resonant Man.

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🔴 How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy?

Farage’s party has shown over the last year that it will attempt to block and reverse clean energy initiatives in its new councils.
https://t.co/7iROzev7B4

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🔴 NEW - The Elections that Turned Climate into a Defining Political Fault Line

Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.
https://t.co/Jyh9kXFnEM

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📍NEW📍 Did you know Meta's planning a data center behemoth in Louisiana the size of Manhattan that will take 10 new natural gas plants to power? Read Ned Randolph's story on resistance to it: https://t.co/EBQIBtI6cU