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<p>The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data<br>—</p><p>The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/the</span><span class="invisible">-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>

<p>The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.</p><p>(Published Oct. 2024)<br><a href="https://propub.li/3CY5WFR" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/3CY5WFR</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="/tags/solar/" rel="tag">#Solar</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/billionaires/" rel="tag">#Billionaires</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>

<p>Industry documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how NW Natural, Oregon’s largest natural gas company, pursued an approach that ended up perpetuating its core fossil fuel business while the company painted a picture of going green.</p><p>(Published Sept. 2024)<br><a href="https://propub.li/3PlzCQ7" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/3PlzCQ7</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/green/" rel="tag">#Green</a> <a href="/tags/cleanenergy/" rel="tag">#CleanEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a></p>

<p>North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency.<br>—</p><p>The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dou</span><span class="invisible">g-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a></p>

<p>The Doublespeak of Energy Secretary Chris Wright<br>—</p><p>In his confirmation hearing, the Liberty Energy founder pledged broad support for renewable energy. But when speaking to conservatives, he declared, “We don’t have replacements” for coal, oil and gas.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/energy-secretary-chris-wright-climate-change-double-speak-oil-gas-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/energy-secretary-chris-wright-climate-change-double-speak-oil-gas-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ene</span><span class="invisible">rgy-secretary-chris-wright-climate-change-double-speak-oil-gas-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/renewableenergy/" rel="tag">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>Während deutsche Fossilisten die <a href="/tags/energiewende/" rel="tag">#Energiewende</a> zu blockieren versuchen, treibt <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a> diese strategisch voran. Mit Wind- &amp; v.a. <a href="/tags/solarstrom/" rel="tag">#Solarstrom</a> sowie <a href="/tags/elektroautos/" rel="tag">#Elektroautos</a> macht es sich unabhängig von <a href="/tags/öl/" rel="tag">#Öl</a>- &amp; <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a>-Importen &amp; stärkt die eigene <a href="/tags/volkswirtschaft/" rel="tag">#Volkswirtschaft</a>. Und inzwischen sinken auch die <a href="/tags/co2/" rel="tag">#CO2</a> - Emissionen.</p><p>Wir Deutschen finanzieren &quot;lieber&quot; weiterhin Diktaturen, Kriege &amp; <a href="/tags/antisemitismus/" rel="tag">#Antisemitismus</a> via <a href="/tags/russland/" rel="tag">#Russland</a>, <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a>, <a href="/tags/katar/" rel="tag">#Katar</a> ... </p><p>Der <a href="/tags/fossilismus/" rel="tag">#Fossilismus</a> ist auch wirtschaftlich &amp; militärisch dumm. <a href="https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Hat-China-den-CO2-Zenit-ueberschritten-article25895583.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.n-tv.de/wissen/Hat-China-den-CO2-Zenit-ueberschritten-article25895583.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.n-tv.de/wissen/Hat-China-d</span><span class="invisible">en-CO2-Zenit-ueberschritten-article25895583.html</span></a></p>

<p>“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say<br>—</p><p>Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.</p><p>Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>“I hope that the people in North Dakota wake up and realize how much money should be in their pockets instead of industry’s pockets,” said Tom Huber, leader of West Virginia’s royalty owner association.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/mineral/" rel="tag">#Mineral</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.<br>---</p><p>The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-methane-oil-emissions-climate?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-methane-oil-emissions-climate?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-methane-oil-emissions-climate?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>

<p>We Investigated How Oil Companies Take Millions From Mineral Owners. Now, Some Lawmakers Push for Change.<br>---</p><p>For years, North Dakota legislators rejected proposals to protect mineral owners from oil and gas companies withholding their earnings. “Something has to be done,” one lawmaker now says.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nor</span><span class="invisible">th-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.</p><p>Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>

<p>Der <a href="/tags/heizhammer/" rel="tag">#Heizhammer</a> der <a href="/tags/bild/" rel="tag">#BILD</a>-Zeitung löste 2023 eine Panik aus, Medien berichteten vom Einbrechen des <a href="/tags/wärmepumpenmarktes/" rel="tag">#Wärmepumpenmarktes</a> und einem Rekordjahr für <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a>. </p><p>Was aber keiner bemerkt hat: Das stimmt nicht, es wurden einfach nur jede Menge Fehlinformationen verbreitet und die Geschichte dahinter ist sehr viel größer, als irgendjemand geahnt hat. </p><p>Wir schauen uns alles ganz genau an und zeigen, dass die Kampagne der BILD gescheitert ist.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuEacJ6_tg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuEacJ6_tg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuEac</span><span class="invisible">J6_tg</span></a></p><p>Danke an ‪<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@VQuaschning" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VQuaschning</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chrisstoecker</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/wärmepumpe/" rel="tag">#Wärmepumpe</a><br><a href="/tags/umwelt/" rel="tag">#Umwelt</a></p>

<p>Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.</p><p>We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>

<p>&quot;Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines.&quot;</p><p>As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.</p><p>~ Dan Froomkin</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#gas</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a><br>/1 </p><p><a href="https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">criticalread.substack.com/p/be</span><span class="invisible">fore-iran-there-was-covid-trump</span></a></p>

<p>Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/methane/" rel="tag">#Methane</a></p>