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Jun 4
A new report co-authored with @Public_Citizen shines light on the first Trump admin's DOI Secretary David Bernhardt, a long-time lobbyist for oil & gas, mining, and big ag interests, and the stronghold he still has on the department. Read it here: citizen.org/article/return-o…
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Jun 2
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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May 8
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. 🧵:
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May 8
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
ALT ALT TEXT 1: A chart shows that 511 drilling permits have been approved in Converse County, Wyoming between January 2025 and April 2026. ALT TEXT 2: A bar chart shows the number of drilling permits 11 companies have gotten in Converse County, Wyoming. The top recipients are Anschutz Exploration Corp: 142, Devon Energy Production Co: 84, Continental Resources Inc: 71, and Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC: 65.
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May 8
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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May 7
🚨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. publicdomain.media/p/emails-…
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Apr 1
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:bit.ly/4m1DxkG
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Mar 13
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. bit.ly/3PzH11z 🧵
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Mar 13
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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Mar 13
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: fieldnotes.co/reporting/cea-…
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