2022-08-12 21:14
A major exporter of U.S. liquefied natural gas is “seeking to greenwash” its operations in order to portray gas exports as a climate solution and clear the way for further expan… Read More
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2022-08-11 19:38
By Clara Vondrich
As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still ca… Read More
2022-08-10 14:59
The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate-wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy.
Jane Toog… Read More
2022-08-08 18:02
By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.
After his amendments to expand Medicare and strip out giveaways to the fossil fuel industry w… Read More
2022-08-03 14:36
MPs with a history of casting doubt on climate science and opposing green policies are poised for cabinet positions under Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss, prompting fears over the UK&rs&helli…Read More
2022-08-02 14:12
Ukrainian activists have criticised aviation companies for buying billions of pounds worth of jet fuel from Russia since Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Last year, Brit… Read More
2022-07-29 20:36
The Congressional Baseball Game is an annual tradition that dates back to 1909. It’s supposed to be a time for both sides of the political system to come together and join in a peacef… Read More
2022-07-29 16:31
Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit, which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get… Read More
Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading And Dubious Science
2022-07-29 16:25
After months of protracted and often bitter wrangling, Ireland’s coalition government yesterday published emissions budgets for each part of the economy, in a bid to meet its ambitiou… Read More
2022-07-28 19:11
Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the… Read More
2022-07-28 14:07
Proposals to boost transparency in the carbon offset market could shine a light on brokers who buy credits cheaply from Indigenous communities before selling them to companies at inflated p… Read More
2022-07-27 13:38
A charity with ties to senior Conservative MPs has appointed a professor who said protecting the environment was an “innovation of the Devil” and has dismissed the science of hu… Read More
2022-07-26 17:06
Netflix gives every impression of being one of the world’s most climate friendly corporations.
The streaming company responsible for the blockbuster climate movie “Don… Read More
2022-07-21 18:51
The current favourite to replace UK prime minister Boris Johnson has defended her plans to slash taxes by citing an economist from a think-tank with ties to the country’s main climate… Read More
2022-07-21 05:30
A leading opponent of climate action in parliament accepted a £2,000 gift from a businessman in the aviation industry, highlighting concerns over the influence of high-carbon interest… Read More
2022-07-20 21:43
By Celina Scott-Buechler, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams.
Over the past few years, fossil fuel combustion has been responsible for approximately 73 percent of the U… Read More
2022-07-14 10:45
The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. After the flames, nipping at the night sky like las… Read More
2022-07-13 15:44
The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama.
All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto ple… Read More
2022-07-13 15:34
A rising star in the contest for a new Prime Minister who has vowed to scrap the UK’s net zero target received a £1,000 gift from a funder of the UK’s main climate science… Read More
2022-07-11 18:12
A speedy transition to electric heat pumps in homes and businesses in Oregon could translate into lower utility bills and faster reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new r… Read More
2022-07-10 19:04
Conservative MP Steve Baker is reviving a Thatcherite pressure group with financial support from the chair of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, raising fears the organi… Read More
2022-07-07 18:50
Just 13 financial players out of hundreds assessed from around the world have restrictions in place against funding oil and gas industry expansion, according to the Oil and Gas Policy Track… Read More
2022-07-07 15:00
As gas prices continue to soar, Dan McTeague makes the rounds of Canadian media sharing tips and tricks to help buyers save a few bucks at the pump.
The former Liberal MP is known as &ls&helli…Read More
2022-07-06 16:55
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in crisis after a fresh scandal triggered resignations by a growing number of his top team.
Still reeling from &ldqu&helli…Read More
2022-07-06 13:24
Nadhim Zahawi, the UK’s new chancellor of the exchequer, earned £1.3 million from a Kurdish oil company while serving as an MP, has advised fossil fuel companies operating in Ni… Read More
2022-07-06 00:41
Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada… Read More
2022-07-06 00:13
Hydrogen is the future of net-zero — at least that is what the governments of Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, and the European Union believe.
Mining billionaire Andrew &l&helli…Read More
2022-07-05 14:49
A freight industry lobbyist and climate science denier who claimed road-block protests by green activists were “risking lives” has been acting as an unofficial spokesperson for… Read More
2022-07-01 17:40
A trade advisor to the UK government has repeated a baseless claim that protests against fracking were funded by the Kremlin.
Economist Catherine McBride, a member of the governmen… Read More
2022-06-30 05:00
To advocates, scaling up the markets where companies go to offset their greenhouse gas emissions will unlock billions of dollars to plant forests, restore ecosystems, and spur a global roll… Read More
2022-06-29 23:26
If you had ventured down a dirt road running through remote marshland along the Gulf Coast in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, at just the right time back in late February, you might have come… Read More
2022-06-28 23:57
The California legislature was close to passing a bill that would require the state’s two massive pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, but on June 21 the legislation was killed… Read More
2022-06-28 19:07
By Basav Sen, climate policy director at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Tejal Mankad, digital and social media manager at Fossil Free Media.
Since early spring, we have been follo… Read More
2022-06-28 15:11
British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sust… Read More
2022-06-27 17:16
A Tory donor who has helped fund the UK’s leading climate science denial group is to be made a member of the House of Lords, prompting Green MP Caroline Lucas to call for an “ur… Read More
2022-06-23 18:18
New large-scale fossil fuel projects have become mostly unworkable in the Pacific Northwest, with dozens canceled over the past decade due to fierce opposition from local communities. But t… Read More
2022-06-22 19:20
Temperatures soared into the high nineties on Saturday, June 18, as Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee Rep. Raúl Grijalva spoke about the moral imperative… Read More
2022-06-22 15:30
A climate science denial group campaigning against the UK’s green policies has close ties to a right-wing businessman who backed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, DeSmog can… Read More
2022-06-17 20:40
Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s west coast have faced prohibitively high costs, scathing critiques from climate acti… Read More
2022-06-17 16:23
British supermarkets are facing criticism for continuing to sell Russian diesel at their petrol stations almost four months after the invasion of Ukraine began.
Campaigners have pl… Read More
2022-06-17 13:56
The UK government has rejected a petition by a climate science denier to overturn the country’s ban on fracking.
The news will come as a set-back to the campaign being waged… Read More
2022-06-17 13:00
Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-d… Read More
2022-06-16 20:26
On a recent episode of the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria,” American Petroleum Institute CEO and President, Mike Sommers, said that “the most important environment… Read More
2022-06-16 17:53
Does engaging with oil and gas giants by remaining invested in them – keeping a “seat at the table” – help in the fight against climate change?
A new report… Read More
2022-06-14 17:00
The UK government has finally published its long-awaited response to the independent National Food Strategy. Two years in the making, there were high hopes this would be a comprehensive pla… Read More
2022-06-10 12:30
By John C. Allaire
When I look out my window here in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, I see hundreds of marsh birds: ospreys, pelicans, ducks, ibis, terns, roseate spoonbills — beautiful… Read More
2022-06-10 09:51
Pension schemes run by BP and Shell have yet to bring in net zero targets for their investment portfolios despite the fossil fuel giants’ “green” marketing, new analysis h… Read More
2022-06-09 13:39
Big Tech platforms are spreading climate disinformation “with impunity” but have the tools to solve this crisis, a new report has said today.
“Deny, Deceive, Delay: Doc… Read More
2022-06-09 13:00
In March, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a joint task force with the goal of getting Europe off Russian gas and onto more of America’… Read More
2022-06-03 19:22
Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. It also has worsened inequality within countries bet… Read More
2022-05-31 21:32
By Emily Satterwhite
A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune, “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is risin… Read More
2022-05-27 01:09
The homes of three Italian climate activists were searched by the Italian police last week over their alleged involvement in March in a protest against fossil gas in Milan, Italy.
The se… Read More
2022-05-26 07:01
A well-connected public relations specialist who runs an anti-BBC pressure group and campaigned for a “hard” Brexit is working with climate science denial groups to oppose the U… Read More
2022-05-25 22:33
Oregon gas utility NW Natural offered free activity booklets in English and Spanish to schools in its service territory last year. The booklets target kids as young as kindergarten with gam… Read More
2022-05-25 05:12
While Russia dropped missiles on Kyiv and laid siege to the port of Mariupol in late February, the oil and gas industry took advantage of the war in Ukraine to spread misinformation about t… Read More
2022-05-24 13:56
HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds i… Read More
2022-05-20 22:54
During a virtual meeting on May 11, the public had an opportunity to comment on a proposed floating LNG export facility 16 miles off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, a bar… Read More
2022-05-20 15:53
Ugandan communities whose lands lie in the pathway of a vast new oil pipeline under development in East Africa have accused French fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies and the Ugandan government… Read More
2022-05-18 22:44
By Amy Westervelt, The Guardian. This story was originally published by the The Guardian and is part of “Climate Crimes,” a special series by The Guardian and Covering Climate N… Read More
2022-05-18 22:05
Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog c… Read More
2022-05-13 19:18
A newly published report by Fossil Free California finds California’s pension fund managers are circulating divestment “misinformation” by exaggerating the costs involved… Read More
2022-05-12 09:19
The new chairman of GB News has a history of sharing articles that dismiss the threat of climate change, sharpening concerns about the TV channel’s role as a platform for opponents of… Read More
2022-05-10 16:39
In April, the Globe & Mail published an article on its website extolling the virtues of natural gas appliances in people’s houses.
The story, headlined “Why natural gas i… Read More
2022-05-10 16:20
There’s a simple rule when it comes to corporate climate commitments: when they come out on Earth Day, you know they’re often too good to be true.
That’s certainly the… Read More
2022-05-09 20:10
NW Natural, a gas utility based in Oregon, is seeking to raise gas bills on its customers in order to pay for millions in executive bonuses, higher returns to shareholders, and a larger adv… Read More
2022-05-06 16:08
By Leanna First-Arai, The Guardian. This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of th… Read More
2022-05-02 18:52
By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine
Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,&r&helli…Read More
2022-04-29 12:00
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams.
A group of House Democrats on Wednesday sent letters to 13 of the top U.S. insurers, urging them… Read More
2022-04-27 17:00
By Aaron Cantu, Capital & Main. This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage o… Read More
2022-04-26 12:25
Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened… Read More
2022-04-25 16:05
Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with… Read More
2022-04-21 16:35
The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising… Read More
2022-04-21 16:15
Boris Johnson has met with the head of an Indian multinational conglomerate building Australia’s largest coal mine, despite having called on the world to phase out the fuel as part of… Read More
2022-04-21 08:23
Greenhouse gas emissions produced by JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, have surged more than 50 percent in the past five years as the company has acquired new poultry and live… Read More
2022-04-19 18:30
Roughly 17 million people in the U.S. live within a mile of an oil or gas well — putting them at higher risk of health problems like heart disease, breathing issues, anxiety and depre… Read More
2022-04-19 17:37
In late March, the Alberta government ran a series of ads on Facebook promoting an oil sands pipeline expansion that could have a climate footprint surpassing that of the entire country of… Read More
2022-04-14 22:02
DeSmog is excited to welcome Matthew Green as our Global Investigations Editor.
Matthew joins DeSmog from Reuters, where he has covered climate and environmental stories for the past fou… Read More
2022-04-14 16:22
Oil prices surged this year, and natural gas traded at record levels. There are no equivalent metrics to gauge the strength of the global climate movement – but civil disobedience in… Read More
2022-04-14 15:12
A climate denier and fuel lobbyist who campaigns against net zero policies was given a platform by major media outlets to attack fossil fuel protests – without any mention of his clim… Read More
2022-04-13 04:01
A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog… Read More
2022-04-12 22:35
On Saturday, April 9, a group of more than 50 activists from the region and around the country convened on a coal power plant in West Virginia, calling for it to be closed and rallying arou… Read More
2022-04-07 23:39
A prominent pro-fossil fuel author, who has argued for the “moral case” for fossil fuels, has a track record of disparaging writings about what he views as “inferior&rdquo&helli…Read More
2022-04-06 16:15
A poll in The Sun that claims 44 percent of the British public supports fracking was paid for by a climate science denial group, DeSmog can report.
The survey was published in The… Read More
2022-04-05 21:32
“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (… Read More
2022-04-04 18:28
Travis Dardar, an indigenous fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana, has a front-row view of the expansion of the liquified natural gas (LNG) industry’s export capacity on the Gulf Coast &md&helli…Read More
2022-04-01 10:03
In the weeks since Putin invaded Ukraine, investors have ditched stakes in Russian oil and gas with unprecedented speed.
The financial sector is finally acting on the calls campaigners h… Read More
2022-03-31 13:00
Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly poll… Read More
2022-03-30 22:01
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams.
U.S. climate activists were outraged after a federal regulatory agency on Thursday, March 24 walked ba… Read More
2022-03-30 14:42
A Conservative MP leading a backbench revolt against UK climate policy has endorsed a report calling for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely.
South Thanet MP… Read More
2022-03-25 16:07
In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the w… Read More
2022-03-25 01:46
Tornadoes hit fast and hard, as those in the path of the tornado that hit Arabi in the New Orleans metro area experienced firsthand. The tornado — which spun up at speeds up to 165 mi… Read More
2022-03-23 15:58
Editor’s Note: This is part of a new column, Gaslit, which will navigate society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Have a tip or idea? Get… Read More
2022-03-21 22:01
When it comes to online disinformation, does it make sense to fight fire with fire using paid social media ads?
A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggest… Read More
2022-03-18 16:57
For roughly a decade, the U.S. oil industry and its backers touted American oil abundance and “energy dominance.” But in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resul… Read More
2022-03-18 15:48
Media coverage of a letter from MPs calling for fuel duty to be cut in the Spring budget has failed to mention its author is closely allied to a climate science denier and haulage industry… Read More
2022-03-18 07:00
“Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backb… Read More
2022-03-17 20:22
As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its… Read More
2022-03-15 19:59
Boards should prepare for legal action based on their response to climate change, a DeSmog investigation has found.
Lawyers, insurers, and campaigners have been anticipating litigation a… Read More
2022-03-14 22:43
The shelling had just started in Kyiv when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney found his angle on the Russian invasion. Now more than ever, he repeated in a series of tweets, we need to focus on C… Read More
2022-03-14 19:37
A coalition of healthcare professionals and climate finance organizations are calling on hospitals to divest their pension and retirement funds from fossil fuels, citing the severe public h… Read More
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