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  • Freelance Journalist, DeSmog
Washington, D.C.
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Inside the struggle to dismantle America's greenhouse gas data

Inside the struggle to dismantle America's greenhouse gas data

New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissi…

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Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America's Greenhouse Gas Data

Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America's Greenhouse Gas Data

New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissi…

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Exxon's Lawyer Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'Nation's Largest Environmental Law Firm' - ...

Exxon's Lawyer Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'Nation's Largest Environmental Law Firm' - ...

"In one of the executive orders, President Trump described the coal industry as beautiful," said Robert L. Le…

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Exxon’s Attorney Is Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself ‘Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm’

Exxon’s Attorney Is Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself ‘Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm’

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Exxon's Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation's Largest Environmen...

Exxon's Robert Levy Is Joining the DOJ Division That Dubs Itself 'the Nation's Largest Environmen...

The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups.

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Freedom of Information at 60

Freedom of Information at 60

Washington, D.C., July 9, 2026 - Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson reluctantly signed the Freedom…

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Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data

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By Rachel Santarsiero
| Truthdig Verified
This story is originally published by DeSmog in partnership with the National Security Archive. When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged the Environmental Protection Agency to preserve it. But for more than a year, behind closed doors, the fossil fuel industry has been pushing to weaken one of the reporting program’s most consequential elements.
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Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data

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By Rachel Santarsiero
| DeSmog Verified
This story is published in partnership with the National Security Archive. When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to preserve it. But for more than a year, behind closed doors, the fossil fuel industry has been pushing to weaken one of the reporting program’s most consequential elements.
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Exxon’s Lawyer Joining DOJ Division That Dubs Itself ‘Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Firm’

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By Rachel Santarsiero
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Robert L. Levy, then executive counsel at Exxon, speaking at a Federalist Society event in 2025. Still from Federalist Society video. The longtime Big Oil attorney has major ties to conservative legal groups. “In one of the executive orders, President Trump described the coal industry as beautiful,” said Robert L. Levy, ExxonMobil’s executive counsel, ata 2025 eventorganized by theFederalist Society.
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