A congressional referral and a Supreme Court request offer the Justice Department a twofold chance to hold Big Oil accountable for its lies.
Hannah Story Brown
Hannah Story Brown is the deputy research director on climate and governance issues at the Revolving Door Project. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Lever, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, and elsewhere. She holds a degree in English from Columbia University.
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Tim Ryan’s Natural Gas Advocacy Makes a Mockery of Public Service
The former Ohio congressman is leveraging his prior career for a group backed by fossil fuel and petrochemical industry players.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Unholy Alliance Between ‘Certified’ Clean Natural Gas Producers and the Certifying Companies
An independent report casts doubt on the credibility of a major gas certification company.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exxon’s Unethical Supreme Court Play
Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Chickenshit Club, Climate Edition
Government lawyers would rather approve 30 years of Arctic drilling than lose in court.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Calling Deficit Squawks’ Bluff on Environmental Enforcement
Deregulatory zeal and government spending cuts are surefire ways to preserve corporate impunity, at the public’s peril.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Quants, Carbon, and Climate Change
The center-left mindset of favoring quantitative analysis and just-so mathematical solutions is particularly myopic when it comes to fossil fuel pollution.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Problem With Emission Reduction Models
They are partially based on what even some of the modelers acknowledge are faulty data, particularly on methane.
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Where Has Congress Been on Trump Holdovers?
Effective oversight could force President Biden’s hand to thin out the bad actors inside his own government.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Past Time to Replace IRS Chief Charles Rettig
No more Trump cronies overseeing the tax authority