Oil and gas industry watchdog groups Fieldnotes and the Center for Climate Integrity will hold a virtual reporter briefing where experts will shed light on oil & gas corporations’ recent behind-the-scenes advocacy and their long history of working to deflect, delay, and defang methane regulations.
Fieldnotes will share a new investigation revealing how the oil & gas industry has worked to eviscerate methane regulations during the second Trump administration. New research based on candid remarks made by industry executives behind closed doors, internal trade group materials, documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, and public statements show how corporations are attempting to maintain the pretense of regulation, but only on their own terms—with their own math and without any strict requirements, meaningful third-party monitoring, or financial penalties that would hold them to account.
The authors of the Center for Climate Integrity’s recent investigation, “The Fraud of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution,” will present relevant findings from their investigation. This work exposes how industry has deceived the public and policymakers for decades, wrongly convincing them that gas is a climate solution. It also traces the origin of many arguments industry is still making today as it works to gut regulations and avoid accountability, highlighting the recurrent patterns within the industry’s campaigns.
Speakers:
- Rebecca Leber
- Rebecca John
- Julie Kane