🚨NEW🚨 "We are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming trajectory… this portfolio contains more than half of the world's worst polluters." Internal 2021 McKinsey forecasting found clients were set to bust climate goals theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Russ Vought is set for a confirmation hearing this afternoon. He told our undercover reporter his plans to erode democratic norms and change America forever.

There are myriad ways in which the fossil fuel industry seeks to influence policy outcomes, and very often it is successful. Here, Centre for Climate Reporting's Lawrence Carter provides advice on how journalists can uncover evidence of these efforts: twp.ai/1RM3rC

US officials appear to have missed a number of climate meetings since Trump took office. Surprising? Perhaps not, but it marks a potentially significant shift from his first term. NEW by me for Centre for Climate Reporting and The Guardian today theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

NEW by me for Centre for Climate Reporting / The Guardian: Edelman is in talks to work on the Cop30 climate summit being held in the Amazon. We dug into the agency's work developing a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group seeking to weaken deforestation protections

🚨 NEW🚨 COP is heading to the Amazon, with Edelman in talks for a role working on the event. But we found the PR giant has also developed a comms strategy for a Brazilian soy industry group lobbying to roll back protections for the rainforest... w/ The Guardian

ICYMI ✍️ I guest edited a newsletter for my alma mater The Bureau of Investigative Journalism the other week, looking at the impact of our work digging into COP28 conflicts of interest ⬇️ Read it and sign up for The Spark here!

WATCH | Here's our undercover footage of OMB director Russ Vought detailing how a second Trump administration would use the military against protestors.