Jesse Coleman
@jessebcoleman.bsky.social
Research Director, @fieldnotes.co. Investigating the influence of corporations, lobbyists, and the super rich on our politics and society. Let me know if you see any of that kind of thing around...
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Jesse Coleman
@jessebcoleman.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents obtained by @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reveal. The Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common?
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What do Big Oil and Big Soda have in common?
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
"The very short answer: Plastics and the petrochemicals they are made from," finds a new investigation by @theguardian.com and @fieldnotes.co.
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Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here:
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
Big Soda Wants to Turn MAGA Against MAHA. Here’s How the Oil & Gas…
Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry.
fieldnotes.co
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Short answer: plastics & petchem. Longer one: Many of those involved in this effort—the companies funding it, the trade groups leading it, the for-hire ops carrying it out—have deep ties to the oil & gas industry. Read more about that here:
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
fieldnotes.co/reporting/co...
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The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The effort features “anti-woke” influencers, the obscure research group Lee Zeldin was working for when Trump picked him to lead US EPA & a “pink-slime” media outlet backed by right-wing billionaires Leonard Leo & Charles Koch.
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🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🚨New from me & @fieldnotes.co in @theguardian.com → Revealed: The network of GOP hired guns behind Big Soda’s bid to turn MAGA against MAHA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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🚨A new investigation from @fieldnotes.co + @us.theguardian.com finds that major US soda & snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign to pit Trump’s MAGA against RFK’s MAHA—all in a bid to protect their bottom lines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨A new investigation from @fieldnotes.co + @us.theguardian.com finds that major US soda & snack companies are waging a coordinated campaign to pit Trump’s MAGA against RFK’s MAHA—all in a bid to protect their bottom lines. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The processed food industry is beating back RFK jr-aligned nutrition policies with the help of Trump’s political machine. Big soda mobilized lobbyists, paid influencer campaigns and pink slime outlets to stop food dye and soda limits in states like Arizona. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
The report was completed in mid-April, scientists familiar with the document told ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: PFNA can be found in drinking water systems that serve about 26 million people.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The EPA’s toxicity report on the forever chemical has sat in limbo for months, raising concerns that the Trump administration might change it or not release it at all.
The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Trump Regime's National Energy Dominance Council provides "concierge, white glove service" for the oil industry, while wind sand solar projects are blocked. And even with the hand holding, the oil ind is hemorrhaging jobs www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
A Top Trump Interior Official Once Pushed To Privatize Wildlife
In the 1990s, Karen Budd-Falen challenged Wyoming’s authority to regulate hunting on behalf of ranchers.
www.publicdomain.media
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
DOI associate deputy secretary and aspiring "God of the Interior" Karen Budd-Falen advocated for a feudal hunting system where deer and elk belong to landowners. Basically the same system Robin Hood was so bent out of shape about. www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
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if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
Gulfstream LNG CEO calls out industry’s “irrational exuberance” - Gas Outlook
A flurry of deals at Gastech showed interest in LNG growth. But industry leaders warned that investors will get "squeezed” by oversupply.
gasoutlook.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
if you are at all interested in LNG, this might be worth your time
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
"I have a sinking feeling right now that this could end quite badly...I think there is going to be some blood in the water.”
gasoutlook.com/analysis/gul...
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Be sure to check out this panel happening today if you are attending #ClimateWeekNYC! Our own @kellyemitchell.bsky.social will be there along with these other incredible voices - don't miss it!
Wednesday at #ClimateWeekNYC: "Fossil Fuel Accountability in the Trump Era"
Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and
featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.
Moderated by NPR's @michaelcopley1.bsky.social and
featuring @iylas.bsky.social, Kelly Mitchell of @fieldnotes.co, former congressional investigator Aria Kovalovich, and Ben Franta of Oxford Sustainable Law Programme.
September 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Be sure to check out this panel happening today if you are attending #ClimateWeekNYC! Our own @kellyemitchell.bsky.social will be there along with these other incredible voices - don't miss it!
Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Texas Oil Boom Leaves a Toxic Legacy of Its Own Making
Toxic wastewater is spreading across America’s biggest oil field, posing a pressing threat to a basin that has grown into a cornerstone of global markets
www.bloomberg.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Magnificent reporting on the waste water bind oil corps created for themselves in the Permian. And by bind I mean ecological/human health/financial disaster. TX let the oil ind force toxic waste water underground at such an incredible rate that "the earth is full." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump basically shook oil execs down during the campaign and is now doing real measurable harm to the industry, yet there's been no real protest from the oil sector. Interesting to see the Houston Chron point out the spinelessness. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I think it's underappreciated that most policy support for clean energy under Obama came in exchange for lifting longstanding bipartisan limits on oil and gas exports. This enabled surging oil and gas production, methane emissions from which outweighed CO2 emission reductions from clean energy.
Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?
Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off.
The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.
www.wsj.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Could be that Trump's oil industry funders think damaging the regulatory system is more valuable in the long-term than lost profits in the short term. Also possible oil execs are terrified of critiquing Trump while his admin weighs lifting Russian sanctions on O&G... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?
Thing is, it's NOT paying off, as the last half of the article details. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?
Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off.
The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.
www.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thing is, it's NOT paying off, as the last half of the article details. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...?
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Big oil corporations want the Trump EPA to keep the veneer of methane regulation while gutting provisions that require real transparency and accountability (like third party reporting on super emitter events and the methane fee).
Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:
Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:
With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand?
The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.
www.exxonknews.org
August 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Big oil corporations want the Trump EPA to keep the veneer of methane regulation while gutting provisions that require real transparency and accountability (like third party reporting on super emitter events and the methane fee).
Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:
Great reporting by @emdashsanders.bsky.social:
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Put another way: $1 of every $7 MAGA Inc has brought in this year came from Kelcy Warren and Energy Transfer.
Among the biggest donors to Trump this year: Kelcy Warren & Energy Transfer. They gave a total of $25 MILLION this year to the MAGA Inc pac—half from Warren and half from the company. docquery.fec.gov/pdf/210/2025...
August 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Put another way: $1 of every $7 MAGA Inc has brought in this year came from Kelcy Warren and Energy Transfer.
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The EPA could repeal methane regs entirely -- but what does the oil industry want?
Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad.
www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad.
www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand?
The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.
www.exxonknews.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The EPA could repeal methane regs entirely -- but what does the oil industry want?
Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad.
www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
Internal docs & public records show Big Oil's strategy on methane: publicly support regulation while fighting to weaken U.S. rules that could stand in for stricter ones abroad.
www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
Great piece on the current state of play on methane regulations in US by @emdashsanders.bsky.social. After years of foot dragging and obfuscation, oil corps admitted that regulation is necessary to reduce methane pollution. But with Trump in power, hypocrisy ensues www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
With methane rules on the chopping block, where does Big Oil stand?
The Trump EPA could do away with methane regulations that major oil companies and their trade associations have strategically claimed to support.
www.exxonknews.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Great piece on the current state of play on methane regulations in US by @emdashsanders.bsky.social. After years of foot dragging and obfuscation, oil corps admitted that regulation is necessary to reduce methane pollution. But with Trump in power, hypocrisy ensues www.exxonknews.org/p/with-metha...
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One of the key "defamation" claims Energy Transfer filed against Greenpeace over its involvement with Standing Rock centered on the destruction of sacred sites. In today's @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode we hear the whole story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
SLAPP’d Episode 5 | Sacred Sites
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
August 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
One of the key "defamation" claims Energy Transfer filed against Greenpeace over its involvement with Standing Rock centered on the destruction of sacred sites. In today's @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode we hear the whole story from @alleenbrown.bsky.social drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Great work by @kmkowalski.bsky.social & @canarymedia.com on this story showing just how much the O&G industry is running the show in Ohio on CCS. They wrote the bill, wined + dined sponsors, lined up witnesses, etc—even by lobbying standards, this one stands out.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
In Ohio, oil and gas industry is steering new carbon capture bill
Newly obtained public records show that the industry has worked hard to ensure the legislation prioritizes their interests over climate change concerns.
www.canarymedia.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Great work by @kmkowalski.bsky.social & @canarymedia.com on this story showing just how much the O&G industry is running the show in Ohio on CCS. They wrote the bill, wined + dined sponsors, lined up witnesses, etc—even by lobbying standards, this one stands out.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...