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Earthworks @earthworks.bsky.social · 2d

Occidental Resources is our October #PolluteroftheMonth 😠

Here we see a large plume of uncombusted methane and volatile organic compounds (such as benzene, a carcinogen) being released into the atmosphere at an Oxy subsidiary.

Learn more: bit.ly/Oct-POM-Oxy

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 3d

According to the UN’s new IMEO report, 88% of alerts sent to oil and gas companies about major methane pollution events are ignored.

This means nearly nine out of ten super-emitters caught from space go unfixed. The data is clear: voluntary alerts aren't enough.

Read more: https://nyti.ms/47xtugz

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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: A Paris Court has ruled that French oil giant TotalEnergies is misleading consumers with claims about its "net-zero ambitions" and role in the energy transition.

It's the first court judgment against an oil company for those claims.

www.exxonknews.org/p/oil-giant-...

Oil giant Total’s net zero claims broke the law, court rules

The ruling is the first court judgment against an oil company for statements about its role in combatting the climate crisis.

www.exxonknews.org

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 6d

📣 PRESS WEBINAR: Join Carbon Mapper, Earthworks, Gas Leaks & PSE Healthy Energy to learn how new data tools, mapping portals, & real-world evidence can help uncover the human impact of methane pollution — and make the invisible visible.

🎟️ Details & registration here: https://bit.ly/4hsudnQ

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 7d

⚖️ A French court has ruled TotalEnergies must remove misleading climate claims from their website or face fines, in the first decision applying France's greenwashing law to an energy company.

buff.ly/dJ0KOSj

www.reuters.com

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 9d

Our #PolluterOfTheMonth, by the numbers:

❌ 4+ methane super-emitter plumes since July
❌ Just 1 hour of combined emissions = a year of driving 180 cars
❌ $8.8 million in penalties since 2023
❌ Enough wasted gas to power 5,800 homes

Oxy keeps talking “net zero,” but the math doesn’t lie.

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 16d

PR spin vs. reality.

Oxy claims to be “leading the way to clean energy.”

In reality? Methane pollution so big it’s visible from space, fines piling up, and gas wasted that could have powered thousands of homes.

This isn’t leadership. This is why Oxy is our October #PolluterOfTheMonth.

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 24d

🚨Our October #PolluterOfTheMonth: Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)

In July alone, satellites caught multiple methane plumes blasting into the sky from Oxy wells in TX & 5 pollution events from their wells in CO since the start of 2025.

See the full receipts at BigGasPolluters.org

Artwork: Amy Ross

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · 29d

"all experts WIRED spoke to stressed that ending GHGRP data collection would severely hobble US efforts to measure and combat greenhouse gas emissions, no matter how good the non-federal options are."

www.wired.com/story/the-ep...

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

www.wired.com

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Earthworks @earthworks.bsky.social · Sep 30

Here, we see methane emissions escape from an inefficient enclosed flare at a well site in Sandoval County, NM, owned by a subsidiary of Enduring Resources, our September #PolluteroftheMonth.

Read more about this bad actor operator: bit.ly/Sept-POM-End...

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 29

Huge thanks to Ezra Brown for fantastic original art, which helps us hold Enduring Resources accountable! The fossil fuel producer operates in some of the country's most underregulated areas, allowing operators to often circumvent and evade enforcement.

Oct#PolluterOfTheMonth coming next week!

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 25

When the gas industry calls methane “clean,” it’s not honesty—it’s just better PR.

Most people have heard natural gas is “better,” but here’s the truth:
💨 It’s methane, a climate superpollutant
🔥 80× more powerful than CO₂
🫁 And it leaks toxic chemicals right into our homes

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 25

🌫️ New research found: every large methane release in CA exceeded health benchmarks for benzene, a cancer-causing pollutant.

That means we are breathing in far more than just methane. #BigGasPolluters call it “natural gas.” The truth? It’s a toxic chemical soup. https://lat.ms/3KirhO4

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 25

“That’s right where people’s houses are at … it was really hush-hush and there wasn’t a lot of information about it being put out to the public.”

hntrbrk.com/permian-reso...

NEW: Permian Resources Exposed Thousands to Cancer-Causing Chemical in New Mexico, According to New Tracking Tool

The storage tanks released a peak benzene concentration of about 87,000 parts per billion. That’s more than 10,000 times higher than a benchmark set by the California Office of Environmental Health Ha...

hntrbrk.com

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 25

👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgSN...

The Looming Disaster Under America’s Biggest Oil Field

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 23

September's #PolluterOfTheMonth operates >1,000 wells on Navajo, Ute, or Apache land, many in a region known as the "Checkerboard," where regulatory jurisdiction can change quickly.

This allows operators like Enduring Resources to dodge/evade enforcements. https://bit.ly/3VEP257

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 18

How do you make the invisible visible?

We’re teaming up with @climatetown.bsky.social Rollie Williams & leading methane organizations at #ClimateWeekNYC to talk about the tools and data helping us hold #BigGasPolluters accountable.

Seats are limited — sign up now! 👉 https://luma.com/fxdnf34o

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Energy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · Sep 17

🚨 from @grist.org: A new lawsuit has been filed by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers against the state of Colorado to stop it from requiring natural gas stoves to carry health labels warning about their pollution dangers. grist.org/accountabili...

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels

Manufacturers fighting a Colorado health warning law argue gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites have suggested otherwise.

grist.org

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 16

Why is Enduring Resources our #PolluterOfTheMonth?

- > $600k Clean Air Act violation fines
- ~200k mcf of methane gas lost to venting in NM alone
- At least 3 methane plumes visible from space
- 17 pollution events since Apr 2025, 6 within 1 mile of schools

➡️ & learn more: https://bit.ly/3VEP257

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 11

Nearly every time methane leaks from an oil & gas facility, so do hazardous air pollutants. PSE's #MethaneRiskMap models the health risk of these emissions on surrounding communities. TLDR;

📍 126,600+ people live within 2 miles of these modeled methane emissions events: https://bit.ly/4n2AYyM

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 11

“It was obvious there was going to be a collision course over the methane content... The main producing American companies have made it very clear that they really can’t comply with this and that it’s a huge obstacle to supplying the European market.”

www.eenews.net/articles/wri...

Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs

A new EU rule will restrict imports that exceed strict limits on methane emissions. That could be a problem for American LNG exports.

www.eenews.net

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · Sep 9

The US oil and gas industry is adamant that their gas has very low associated methane emissions.

And yet they say complying with EU methane regulations would required "massive modifications."

Both of those can't be true. And the first one isn't.

Andy Gheorghiu @andygheorghiu.bsky.social · Sep 9

US motherfracker Chris Wright demands that EU gets rid of #climate, #methane & Due Dilligence legislations! www.ft.com/content/22f9...
@ec.europa.eu @press.consilium.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu We demand that you hold the line & not bow down to another fossil fascist dictator!

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 8

Meet our September #PolluterOfTheMonth, Enduring Resources. They primarily operate in the San Juan Basin in NM. ~70% of its wells are located on Navajo, Ute, or Apache land. Visits to the company's well sites indicate that pollution events are frequent. https://bit.ly/3VEP257
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Art by Ezra Brown

Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 4

"It is clear from this that pledges and industry self-regulation are failing to clean up the gas supply chain."

Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since 2017, the Int'l Energy Agency has told the world the fossil fuel industry can reduce its emissions of toxic, planet-warming methane at little to no cost to itself. But industry keeps failing to clean up its act. Methane emissions are still rising in lockstep with production. bit.ly/47YXaVt

A graph showing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector rising in lockstep with production of these fossil fuels. That suggests the industry is failing to take steps to reduce methane emissions along its supply chain.

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Big Gas Polluters @biggaspolluters.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Yet a first-of-its-kind analysis of permit applications to the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s main oil and gas regulator, reveals a rubber-stamp system that allows drillers to emit vast amounts of natural gas into the atmosphere."

ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 3

NEW: 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.

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

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.

www.propublica.org