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From a strip mall mailbox to the highest levels of EPA and DOJ, this is what regulatory capture looks like in real time. Read our full investigation here: fieldnotes.co/reporting/cea-…

This isn’t a coincidence; it’s infrastructure. CEA exists to launder both far-right cash and oil & gas arguments—all while serving as a revolving door between government and industry.

A lot is going on, so you may have missed the @politico investigation based on Fieldnotes research revealing how an obscure non-profit w/ deep ties to the right, oil & gas, and the Trump admin is helping to stamp out the foundation of climate policy. bit.ly/3PzH11z 🧵

ICYMI: Groups have already sued over the endangerment finding. Be sure to check out our previous posts pointing out who was behind the effort to begin with and what it means for oil & gas trade groups like API.

Learn more by checking out our analysis (in collaboration with @emorwee at HEATED): heated.world/p/trump-is-wip…

In EPA’s press release on the endangerment finding, API praises the agency’s tailpipe rule repeal, but notably doesn’t mention that EPA just killed the finding that underpins nearly all U.S. climate regs. Weird, right? Unless API is scared the extreme rollback might backfire...

Read more in our piece in collaboration with @emorwee at HEATED: heated.world/p/trump-is-wip…

After decades of denial, delay, and sabotage, API is gambling it can erase regulation and still escape accountability for lying to the public and driving climate change. We’ll see what the courts say.

➡️They tried to stop the finding before it existed. ➡️They sued after it was finalized in 2009. ➡️They lost – repeatedly – all the way up to the Supreme Court.