Polluter Watch

PolluterWatch holds corporate polluters, their influence peddlers and DC front groups accountable for endangering America's clean energy future. Greenpeace USA.

[Polluter Watch @PolluterWatch]

What's this? #Vote4Energy garbage on TV?

We punk’d @API_News in 2012, infiltrated their TV shoot:
https://t.co/gEZ5WLC5XF

[Sidney Hillman Foundation @SidneyHillman]

Congratulations to @AriBerman of @MotherJones and @NickSurgey of @ItsDocumented on winning the June Sidney for exposing a secret right-wing voter suppression playbook: https://t.co/TWW3OL58O2

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

Back in Feb, the TX House released 1000s of pages of public comments submitted in the wake of the blackouts. As the #txlege session starts to wrap, as lawmakers fail to meaningfully hold gas cos accountable, it's worth reflecting on what Texans actually experienced in this crisis

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

And here are members of the Texas Railroad Commission joking about running a propane heater indoors and carbon monoxide poisoning during an emergency meeting on February 17th.

@Perla_Trevizo @renLarson_ @LChurchilll @Mike_Hixenbaugh

[David Halperin @DaHalperin]

Lawyers from WilmerHale, which has represented for-profit colleges, banks, polluters, & other bad actors, are all over the Biden admin: WH, Education, DHS..even as Wilmer gets new business like advising for-profit college co Adtalem. Watch Jamie Gorelick https://t.co/vEE7dIKzel

[Rebecca Leber @rebleber]

I've been working on this new feature for months.

It started with reporting on gas stove influencers. I got my hands on revealing industry emails & unpacked the layers of fossil fuel astroturf using America's favorite appliance to fight climate action https://t.co/8UClCbnEXf

[Scott Lauermann @ScottLauermann]

.@MackEnergyCorp’s Lee Livingston on federal leasing ban: “What this does is it exports New Mexican jobs and it causes us to import foreign oil.”

[Zack Colman @zcolman]

To be sure, Lummis is referencing a study whose PR blitz was secretly funded by an industry trade group (whose work included developing talking points).

https://t.co/gKsQoSPnyE

[Nick Surgey @NickSurgey]

*NEW* Lots more corporations are dumping @RepublicanAGs following the riot at the Capitol and the infamous robocall. The latest batch includes @Microsoft @AEPenergy @nrgenergy and @energyinsights https://t.co/uTTs1l2uDq

[Nick Surgey @NickSurgey]

Documented just obtained the 2019 tax filing for RLDF, the GOP Attorney General org that promoted last week's pre-riot Trump rally. It shows 43 (name redacted) donors to the dark money group. How many corporate donors are keeping quiet about their funding? https://t.co/WMlW26cgcx

[David Halperin @DaHalperin]

Former Trump EPA official Kevin Chmielewski, who blew the whistle on Scott Pruitt grifting on travel, office expenses, and staff misuse, and then got fired, is suing EPA and DoE. Here's the complaint: https://t.co/JV1rtOjFqu

[Polluter Watch @PolluterWatch]

More material on Palmer available here on PolluterWatch:
https://t.co/6dkvZn0O4r

And @DeSmogBlog:
https://t.co/q0dufK8VlO

And SourceWatch, via @EXPOSEDbyCMD:
https://t.co/1VJfdnSq3o

[Polluter Watch @PolluterWatch]

Fred Palmer worked for decades as a lobbyist for Peabody Energy and the Western Fuels Association. He's currently working w climate deniers at The Heartland Institute.

His daughter worked with Peabody and Trump admin to end protections for Grand Staircase National Monument.

[Chris D'Angelo @c_m_dangelo]

Here's Downey Magallanes — a top aide of @SecretaryZinke and the daughter of longtime @peabodyenergy exec Fred Palmer — advising her father's former employer in June on who at Interior could best help the coal company get a mine modification through @OSMRE.

[Greenpeace USA @greenpeaceusa]

Today is #MSBuild2020, maybe Microsoft’s biggest day of the year, and we need to talk. Microsoft is helping oil billionaires profit from wrecking the climate: https://t.co/bvDTI12b1Y #NoTech4Oil

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[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

I know the next week is going to be hard for shale oil CEOs. So I made this handy guide for what to expect if you don't get your big government bailout.

#oott $OXY $CLR $CHK $OAS $MRO

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

Exxon and Chevron also have several long standing joint ventures with Saudi Aramco, including a massive petrochemical facility in Texas and drilling projects in Saudi Arabia.

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

The oil executives assembling tomorrow are unlikely to back any formal ban on Saudi imports. Exxon, Chevron, and Phillips 66 refineries alone receive nearly half of all Saudi oil imported to the US. Saudi oil makes up 77% of the imports to Chevron’s Richmond refinery.

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

These companies carry $21 billion in unfunded pension liabilities on their books and sit on a pile of debt exceeding $158 billion. And these are some of the best performing, well capitalized, and politically connected oil companies in the world.

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

Even in “better” times, many of these firms have prioritized executives & investors over the workers and health of their companies. Since the last financial crisis in 2008, Exxon has paid out $100 BILLION in stock buybacks & dividends than it has generated from operations.

[Kelly Mitchell @kellyemitchell]

Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland gets a special shout out for bringing home more than $30 million in 2019 (including changes to his pension plan).

[Polluter Watch @PolluterWatch]

"I don't care if you're a Jew, or a Muslim, or 100% German."

- "Anti-Greta" Naomi Seibt, pictured here with a well-known Neo-Nazi in Germany.

https://t.co/6VOTL357U5