Julia Kane

New @fieldnotes.co investigation: the oil & gas industry is working hand-in-glove with the Trump admin to gut federal methane regulations. Corporations want to keep the veneer of regulations—and “not much more” than that. fieldnotes.co/investigatio...

Tomorrow, Tues. 10/27, Trump and Zeldin are expected to unveil an EPA proposal to gut methane regulations. To learn more about how the oil & gas industry has been asking them to do exactly this, check out @fieldnotes.co's recent investigation: fieldnotes.co/investigatio...

The Trump administration has given some of the country's biggest sources of toxic pollution a free pass, according to an investigation out today by @ericlipton.nytimes.com and me. @nytimes.com gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

During this investigation, we traveled to locations around the United States where President Trump has moved to ease pollution rules, including to Port Neches, Tx. where there is a middle school a few blocks from the chemical plant considered by the EPA the largest cancer threat nationwide.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

"Companies want to be able to *say* that they're well regulated, they don't actually want to *be* well regulated." — @fieldnotes.co's @juliakane.bsky.social explains why the oil & gas industry is pushing the Trump admin to hollow out methane regs, but not repeal them completely.

It has now been two weeks since Zeldin said EPA would propose a rule gutting Biden-era methane standards within "days not weeks." Still no sign of the proposed rule...

The Trump admin is poised to gut regulations on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This is exactly what the oil & gas industry has been asking for. @dylanbaddour.bsky.social reports for @insideclimatenews.org:

Great reporting by @dylanbaddour.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org on the Trump admin's pending rollback of methane regulations. The oil & gas industry has been pushing EPA to gut the rules, but to leave the veneer of regulation in place.

"The Oklahoma oil and gas company Continental Resources and its chairman emeritus, billionaire and GOP megadonor Harold Hamm, both promised donations to the ballroom in October 2025 totaling just under $5 million."

The EPA met with oil and gas industry representatives at least three dozen times during Trump’s first year of his second term to discuss methane regulations.

"Lee Zeldin's EPA is giving oil and gas corporations exactly what they've long wanted: a toothless methane standard they can use to pretend they're well-regulated, all while they continue to knowingly leak and flare dangerous amounts of the heat-trapping gas" -@juliakane.bsky.social @fieldnotes.co

I said that! ⬇️

EPA is about to gut methane regulations, the result of “a coordinated industry strategy in which fossil fuel groups maneuvered behind the scenes to avoid regulatory accountability.” @rsanta.bsky.social reports for @motherjones.com:

Attn: climate/energy reporters — EPA will propose a rule gutting methane standards in "days not weeks." @fieldnotes.co just posted our briefing on how the oil & gas industry has been working behind the scenes w/ the Trump admin to get this done. w/ @rebleber.bsky.social & @rebeccajohn.bsky.social:

Attn: climate/energy reporters — EPA will propose a rule gutting methane standards in "days not weeks." @fieldnotes.co just posted our briefing on how the oil & gas industry has been working behind the scenes w/ the Trump admin to get this done. w/ @rebleber.bsky.social & @rebeccajohn.bsky.social:

EPA just announced that it’s “days not weeks” from gutting a landmark methane rule, fulfilling the oil & gas industry’s wishes. To learn more about corporations’ decades-long campaign against methane regulations, check out @fieldnotes.co and @climateintegrity.org’s recent briefing:

The oil & gas industry is working with Trump's EPA to gut methane regulations. Check out @rsanta.bsky.social's reporting for @desmog.com:

"Those claims mask a voluntary system riddled with loopholes that has made scant progress toward stamping out one of the oil industry’s dirtiest practices. The industry helped shape the initiative, which leaves companies to police themselves."

Oil giants pledged to end routine flaring — burning off unwanted gas — by 2030. But satellites show they’re still flaring, and the World Bank said they could keep doing so if stopping wasn't profitable. Our investigation with Bloomberg News ⤵️

Great work on oil and gas industry lies about "routine" flaring. “It’s a deliberate greenwash that establishes a target that’s meaningless,” says Richard Ward, a former Shell sustainability manager.... "Those loopholes are so big that they don’t have to do anything.” Gift link. Please read.

Great thread (and noting Julia’s correction to “In early 2025”) that illustrates why you cannot accommodate and coddle the O&G. You need to bring O&G to its knees. This is ultimately a fight over 💥power💥, not emissions.

Argh, this should say early *2025,* not early 2024.