Nick Cunningham

LOBBY DADDY

ha, wow this ad "I like being dominated by US lobbyists" youtu.be/PG75Lo7vUQI?...

Attracting investment for oil and gas often entails forfeiting sovereignty/democracy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Under Lula, deforestation dropped to lowest level on records Lula’s Win Rules Out U-Turn by Brazil on Climate, Deforestation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

European Parliament voted for a three-year delay of the EU Methane Regulation, undermining the credibility of the program gasoutlook.com/analysis/cre...

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

Ooh this looks… intriguing.

#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP

Hell ya! Very important climate policy advancing in city hall. You love to see it. Now we need to make sure there are the votes to pass it!

So we’re already at the “rich individual unilaterally dictates the course of wars between nations” stage of oligarchy, how much farther do we want to take this?

important detail

cash-for-contracts

“I think of it as a tectonic shift in Pennsylvania environmental politics,” said David Masur about a potential trifecta. “It’s a generational shift, and it really changes the playing field with the opportunity to move toward a green majority in the legislature.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2010202...

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

that’s the fucking way

Methane pollution from US natural gas distribution and use is most thoroughly studied in Boston, an old city with a lot of old iron pipes. A new 10-year study in Indy, a newer city with mostly newer plastic pipes, estimates a methane pollution rate equal to 1.6% to 2.4% of natural gas consumption.

Most interviews about fascism don’t end with me almost crying about the wonders of Pacific wild salmon, but somehow this one did. One of the best conversations I’ve had on tour so far. Thank you Oli Dugmore and The Exchange. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social youtu.be/JdfMaPrMBW4

Claudia Sheinbaum on a legendary run www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tech bosses pick a side.

▶️ Good news ◀️ Mangrove forest cover grew globally between 1985 & 2025 🥂 Big turnaround from losses due to shrimp aquaculture & development pressures that dominated headlines for decades 🌴 India recorded the most significant net increases, @mongabay.com reporting fellow Samuel Ogunsona writes:

#Zionism today: Masked Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians and veteran @washingtonpost.com photojournalist Heidi Levine, emboldened by the presence of Israeli soldiers. 10 days ago West Bank settlers beat @afp.com photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh with rifle butts.

Always third way. Nyt has them on speed dial

more and more are saying

shout out to all the people in the room that laughed at this guy so hard that he couldnt finish his sentence

Yet another "subprime lending" crisis for insurers ⁠and pension funds investing in asset-backed securities. Just as with home sellers prior to 2008, car dealers are selling to people who can't afford their product, teasing them w loans with repayment schedules that make no sense.

The $1.7 trln auto loan market heads for a crash www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-...

🚨No less than Jody Freeman, Professor of Law at Harvard, warns that BAAJA is: "structurally designed to lock in and subsidize natural gas & other fossil projects over cleaner renewables for years to come." 1/n @volts.wtf @ghgpolicy.org @kevinjkircher.com

Aramco facilities will be next

These numbers are pretty stunning. "LNG demand across South Asia, which had been projected to grow by 2.7 million tonnes (Mt), or 7%, in 2026.... is now expected to decline by around 6 Mt and the outlook beyond 2026 has been materially downgraded"

This week, in Place de la Bastille, Paris. Young people singing 'La Marseillaise', the police charging.

Chat is it good when an Ambassadorial nominee writes "Stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous ... if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control" to the man who paid her $300,000 to help resolve his tax issues with the IRS?

“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

the fruits of a single-minded and maniacal focus on supporting Israeli genocide

I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”

next comes austerity for social programs to close the deficit

Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:

Believe it or not, oil companies have apparently been lying to us! I know, I'm just as shocked as you are (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do.

"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."

“For the first time in my career I was able to do what I loved — and not feel like I’m dying.” All-electric cooking is where it's at. All the speed and precision, without all the cancer and asthma-inducing chemicals of gas.

Exxon, Total, Occidental and Diamondback tout efforts to end routine flaring, but their flames continue to burn around the world, a joint investigation by The Examination and Bloomberg News has found. Read more: examination.news/3VSWZHk

“The disruption in the energy world . . . gives us plenty of opportunities if you’re able to capture them,” Patrick Pouyanné told the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Monday. “I prefer the world of disruption to the peaceful world." www.ft.com/content/ae67...

Think tanks will soon start releasing non-peer-reviewed modeling of how the permitting bill might affect pollution, if they haven't already. Most will secretly have lots of ideology-driven thumbs on scales. One big way to tip the scales is by ignoring pollution associated with oil and gas exports.

FT: "Brazil’s currency, stocks and bonds jumped on Monday as investors bet that Flávio Bolsonaro will become president and push through market-friendly reforms.... Flávio Bolsonaro election win sparks best day for Brazilian stocks since 2020" www.ft.com/content/4796...