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Read @RebekahFWard and @AmandaDrane's reporting:
https://t.co/qOcnm8tdws

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New @HoustonChron story explores the growing push to reuse "produced water" from oilfields for data center cooling — a proposal that supporters say could help address both Texas' water shortages and the oil industry's mounting wastewater disposal problem.

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Meanwhile, Hamm is celebrating. “Some of the regulatory hurdles that was there before, they’ve been removed. And that does lower our cost of doing business,” he said at an event in January.

Public lands. Private influence. Same story, just more explicit now.

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From @PDInvestigates + Fieldnotes: When fracking billionaire Harold Hamm’s company, Continental, wanted to drill in Wyoming, it handed federal officials a “roadmap” for how to get around a court injunction blocking new permits and issue them anyway. 🧵:
https://t.co/pPmKYRcvF8

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Since then:
- The BLM closely followed the workaround strategy proposed by Continental
- The agency has approved 500+ new wells in Converse County
- Continental has gotten permits for 71 new wells in the area

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🚨New from Fieldnotes and @PDInvestigates: Emails show that Harold Hamm’s Continental wanted the Bureau of Land Management to sign off on new wells in Wyoming, despite a court injunction there. The agency obliged. https://t.co/pPmKYRcvF8

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Aaron Szabo, the official leading EPA efforts to weaken methane regs, once helped write the oil industry's arguments against said rules. Emails show he's now working w/ industry to gut federal climate policy. That's textbook regulatory capture. @ProPublica:https://t.co/KDkIVhRQ2z

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From a strip mall mailbox to the highest levels of EPA and DOJ, this is what regulatory capture looks like in real time. Read our full investigation here: https://t.co/7nPebZUprr

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A lot is going on, so you may have missed the @politico investigation based on Fieldnotes research revealing how an obscure non-profit w/ deep ties to the right, oil & gas, and the Trump admin is helping to stamp out the foundation of climate policy. https://t.co/AYbXAPqGvJ 🧵

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This isn’t a coincidence; it’s infrastructure. CEA exists to launder both far-right cash and oil & gas arguments—all while serving as a revolving door between government and industry.

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ICYMI: Groups have already sued over the endangerment finding. Be sure to check out our previous posts pointing out who was behind the effort to begin with and what it means for oil & gas trade groups like API.

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The legal war over the endangerment finding is now underway. Gift link: https://t.co/5bNFi9v4fv