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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 2d

➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 2d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD.

Its playbook?
- Lobbying
- Funding think tanks
- Media sponsorships

⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it.

www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/

How Big Oil kills sustainability and climate legislation - SOMO

Inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD When the EU finally agreed on its landmark Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in 2024, it was hailed as a breakthro...

www.somo.nl

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 10d

🎥 Film screening + debate 🎥

What: special preview screening of CEO's new doc on community resistance to the EU's green hydrogen drive. Followed by a debate + drinks 🍻
Where: Mundo Matonge, BXL
When: 19h00
With: @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @counter-balance.bsky.social @attacdeutschland.bsky.social

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · 14d

Join us 🤝

Together we will cut fossil fuels out of EU politics, and make space for the real solutions we all need.

✂️ fossilfreepolitics.org

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 25d

We've taken another step in tackling industry interference at the UN climate talks ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾

Sustained campaigning from the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition means all non-govt participants heading to COP30 now have to declare who's funding their attendance.

kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · Sep 10

The EU's top court has just ruled that nuclear energy and fossil gas are "green" and count as sustainable investments 🤯

Shows you just how green the EU is (and the influence that the #gaslobby has over politics).

Really disappointing.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Top EU court upholds nuclear green label

The EU's top court on Wednesday upheld the European Commission's decision to give a sustainable finance label to investments in natural gas and nuclear power, dismissing a complaint by Austria.

www.france24.com

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gastech 2025 has begun in Milan, bringing together oil majors and governments - behind a paywall 💰🤫

ENG: 😡 “Come all to the gas and gas derivatives fair!” It's time for Gastech 2025, “the world's largest event dedicated to natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, climate tech, and AI in the energy sector.”

recommon.org @recommon.org · Sep 9

😡 “Venghino, signori, venghino alla fiera del gas e dei suoi derivati!”. È giunta l'ora di Gastech 2025, “il più grande evento al mondo dedicato a gas naturale, GNL, idrogeno, tecnologie per il clima e intelligenza artificiale nel settore energetico",

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Sep 8

What antics have the fossil fuel enablers been up to over the summer?

Law firm Marzulla Law, which supports groups fighting offshore wind farms, is pressuring Brown University to retract its
research linking anti-wind groups to the fossil fuel industry.

#FAIL

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · Aug 12

The UK trying to do what the UK does best: second oil&gas and arms companies into government!

Such a successful tactic in the past, foreign secretary David Lammy tries it again but faces massive push back.

#fossilfreepolitics

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments

Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence

www.theguardian.com

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ever wondered how Europe got hooked on US gas?

Based on research by our good friends at ARIA, this article shows how just one lobbyist can be enough to convince our leaders to go for American LNG.

It's another reason we need to cut fossil fuels out of our politics.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe learned to love American gas. This is how Trump wrecks it.

Backroom deals, embassy contacts and brown liquor built a booming export trade. Now, the lobbyist who saw it all says the U.S. president’s dalliances with Vladimir Putin are an incoming “aste…

www.politico.eu

Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great work! Unbelievable that the EU Commission denied any involvement. Aren't they funding South Africa's Just Energy Transition Partnership?

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jul 16

ICYMI: Last week @corporateeurope.org was in the EU Parliament for a special screening of their new film about the struggle of South African communities against new green hydrogen projects.

🚨 SPOILER ALERT: Green hydrogen is being used by the fossil fuels industry to greenwash their activities 👀

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jul 16

🚨New video!

Communities impacted by green hydrogen projects in South Africa finally had their voices heard by MEPs and the European Commission for the first time.

🤥 Incredibly disappointing: the Commission denied the EU was involved in any of the projects shown

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/h...

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jul 14

A conflict of interest that stinks to high heaven? Yep, that's exactly what it is!

Lead author of a new IPCC report into reducing oil&gas emissions used to work for @saudiaramco.bsky.social for 18 years.

via @globalenergymon.bsky.social' #InsideGas

www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

a woman wearing a headband and hoop earrings looks down at something

ALT: a woman wearing a headband and hoop earrings looks down at something

media.tenor.com

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jul 14

New report from US Department of Energy warns that 🇺🇸 will lose the AI race unless it keeps older coal + gas plants open, and speeds up construction of new ones.

It's as if the fossil fuel industry is running the government... oh yeah, they actually do 🤦🏼‍♂️

www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

DOE plays out worst-case scenarios for US grid

The Department of Energy report is widely viewed as groundwork for the White House to order coal and gas plants slated for closure to run for longer.

www.eenews.net

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recommon.org @recommon.org · Jul 4

🗞️La vicenda della SLAPP, dell'azione intimidatoria di #ENI verso il nostro Antonio Tricarico per le dichiarazioni rilasciate a Report è finita sulla home del @theguardian.com.

🤔La testata 🇬🇧 racconta tutta la storia, che tanti media mainstream 🇮🇹 hanno ignorato 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jun 30

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change calls for a ban on fossil fuel lobbying.

Each failed attempt to address climate change lays bear the damaging political influence of the coal, oil and gas lobby.

It's time for #FossilFreePolitics.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

www.theguardian.com

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jun 24

🚨 BREAKING: Despite supposed reforms, carbon offsets are still ineffective and prone to failure.

New research from @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social exposes offsetting as a #DangerousDistraction and #FalseSolution to the climate crisis.

corporateaccountability.org/BuiltToFail

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · Jun 16

Governments are in Bonn for the UN climate negotiations. They have the chance to tackle conflicts of interest and stop the fossil fuel lobby's damaging impact on the talks.

@wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu will you ensure the EU supports action on conflicts of interest?
#SB62
#PollutersOut

Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔔 Reminder sent 🔔

60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn #SB62

💌: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...

#FossilFreePolitics #PollutersOut
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60 organisations sent a reminder to Hoekstra ahead of the climate talks in Bonn - Fossil Free Politics

A timely reminder signed by 60 organisations was sent to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. Initiated by the Fossil Free Politics campaign and supported by the KickBigPollutersOut coalition, we’r...

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 16

As governments meet in Bonn for the UN climate talks, here's another timely reminder for @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu

The EU needs to get behind effort to protect the talks from fossil fuel industry interference. We need a conflict of interest policy at the UNFCCC + in Brussels!
#PollutersOut #SB62

SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔔 Reminder sent 🔔

60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn #SB62.

💌: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...

#FossilFreePolitics #PollutersOut

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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our asks to Hoekstra:

🛡️ Proactively publicly call for the UNFCCC to create an Accountability Framework

🛡️ Not bring any fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30

🛡️ Support an EU-level conflict of interest framework to protect European decision-making

Read more: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Last year at his confirmation hearing, Hoekstra himself supported an Accountability Framework meant to keep away undue fossil fuel influence from climate issues 🎥

#FossilFreePolitics #KickBigPollutersOut
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 13

We have reason to be hopeful since the European Commission didn’t bring any fossil fuel executives last year 👍

But there is much room for improvement, since the EU Member States still brought more than 113 fossil fuel lobbyists to COP29 🫠

#FossilFreePolitics #KickBigPollutersOut
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Fossil Free Politics @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social · Jun 13

🔔 Reminder sent 🔔

60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn #SB62

💌: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde...

#FossilFreePolitics #PollutersOut
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60 organisations sent a reminder to Hoekstra ahead of the climate talks in Bonn - Fossil Free Politics

A timely reminder signed by 60 organisations was sent to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. Initiated by the Fossil Free Politics campaign and supported by the KickBigPollutersOut coalition, we’r...

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jun 12

The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈

This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible.

Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...

The Dirty Industrial Deal FAQs Part II: Gas imports & energy prices | Corporate Europe Observatory

The Clean Industrial Deal is the EU Commission’s flagship policy – but despite the name, it’s definitely not clean. This series will guide you through the basics with our answers to some frequently a...

corporateeurope.org

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