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Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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June 10, 2026

Voters Reject Steyer and the Rockefeller Keep it in the Ground Agenda

It’s officially over for Tom Steyer. Again. The billionaire’s defeat in California should serve as a wakeup call for any politician – including Gavin Newsom – running on the Rockefeller-backed “Make Polluters Pay” campaign, the decade-plus national effort to turn climate policy into legal liability for the oil and gas industry.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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February 18, 2026

Texas Judge Allows Industry to Fight Back Against Recycled Plastics Lawsuit

On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. Truncale denied California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s motion to dismiss in a defamation lawsuit filed by ExxonMobil, giving the company the opportunity to finally fight back against Bonta attacking advanced recycling technologies.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
Blog
April 11, 2025

Trump’s Executive Order Puts the Brakes on Anti-Energy Lawfare

In a bold move to defend America’s energy security, on Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order slamming the brakes on the coordinated lawfare campaign targeting U.S.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
Blog
February 11, 2025

West Virginia Leads AG Coalition Suing New York Over “Devastating” Climate Superfund Bill

Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to global climate change.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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January 24, 2025

Annapolis, Anne Arundel County’s Climate Cases Are Thrown Out As Dismissals Stack Up

It turns out that New York City is hardly the only climate plaintiff to face the January blues this year. Yesterday, the Anne Arundel Circuit Court dismissed Annapolis and Anne Arundel’s climate lawsuits against America’s energy industry, delivering yet another devastating blow to the already struggling, nationally-coordinated climate litigation campaign.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
Blog
April 16, 2024

Climate Superfund Bills Would Tax American Businesses, Spare OPEC+

Supporters of climate litigation are leaning into alternative strategies to extract dollars from the American energy industry. Last Tuesday, Vermont’s state Senate passed a “climate superfund” bill that would fine American energy companies to pay for the effects of climate change.

Joe Barone, Shale Directories
Blog
February 14, 2024

The Rockefellers, Bloomberg Take Credit for Biden LNG Pause

Billionaire “philanthropists” like the Rockefellers often claim to care about noble causes like the security of the United States’ European allies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.