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Inside a Pipeline Giant’s Bid to Block Greenpeace’s Historic Anti-Intimidation Lawsuit

A Fieldnotes investigation reveals Energy Transfer is using an astroturf group run by a powerful DC shadow lobbying firm in a bid to block a first-of-its-kind countersuit in the Netherlands.

December 18, 2025Dec 18, 2025
Europe
Litigation and Law Firms
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Greenpeace Fights for Survival Against a Fossil Fuel Giant’s $345-Million “SLAPP” Suit

Energy Transfer’s lawsuit set up the First Amendment battle of the year and threatens to silence support for grassroots protest against the fossil fuel industry.

UPDATED December 17, 2025
Europe
Litigation and Law Firms

“We Don’t Deserve This”: Survivors of Super Typhoon Odette File Claims Against Shell

Last week the survivors of Super Typhoon Odette that struck the Philippines in 2021 filed what may be the most ambitious climate lawsuit to date against global oil giant Shell.

UPDATED December 15, 2025
Litigation and Law Firms
Southeast Asia

Isolated and Without Food in Brazil's Corn Ethanol Capital

Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, birthplace of Brazil's first 100% corn ethanol plant, claims to be sustainable while its population suffers from pesticide contamination, high temperatures, food shortages, and extreme weather shifts exacerbated by climate change.

UPDATED December 15, 2025
Agriculture
Latin America + Caribbean

Selling Seaweed: An Australian Green Startup’s Chemical Insurance Policy

Sea Forest embodied the promise of green capitalism: grow seaweed, solve climate, get rich. It appears the company was playing with a stacked deck.

UPDATED December 10, 2025
Agriculture
Oceania
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Carbon Bros

Where the climate crisis meets the crisis of masculinity.

UpdatedNovember 15, 2025Nov 15, 2025

Gender

IPCC & COP

Explanations and analysis of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

UpdatedNovember 15, 2025Nov 15, 2025

International climate negotiations

Petroganda

The fossil fuel industry’s favorite narratives.

UpdatedOctober 13, 2025Oct 13, 2025

Advertising and PR industry
Fossil Fuel Industry
Litigation and Law Firms

Climate Obstruction

Climate disinformation doesn’t begin and end with science denial. As the world moves towards climate action, the fossil fuel industry has begun using familiar tactics to advocate for solutions it knows will never actually do anything but keep profits flowing.

UpdatedSeptember 16, 2025Sep 16, 2025

Carbon Capture
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S14, Ep10 | The Corruption of COP

A look at how polluting industries infiltrated global climate processes from the beginning, and how it works today.

November 11, 2025Nov 11, 2025
Books (Drilling Deep)
International climate negotiations
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We are a global team investigating the obstacles to action on climate change, all over the world

Climate change is a global issue, and those obstructing climate action operate globally too. Yet, coverage of the issue remains geographically siloed. By bringing reporters together to co-report stories across borders, we aim to change that.

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