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Big Oil Could Face ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ Without Republican Supreme Court

At the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, members of Leonard Leo’s network explain why the right-wing court majority is crucial for protecting oil companies from climate lawsuits.
At the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, members of Leonard Leo’s network explain why the right-wing court majority is crucial for protecting oil companies from climate lawsuits.
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Conservatives at this year’s ALEC conference expressed hope that the Supreme Court will deliver a favorable ruling for the oil and gas industry when it takes up the ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy lawsuit in October. Credit: Sarah Hofmann/DeSmog, Picryl, byronv2/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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Canadian Columnist Boosting Data Centres Has Ties to AI Industry
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Toronto Sun opinion writer Jay Goldberg works for a group that backs Trump’s AI strategy and has received funding from a Big Tech lobbying firm.

Toronto Sun opinion writer Jay Goldberg works for a group that backs Trump’s AI strategy and has received funding from a Big Tech lobbying firm.
us/Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data
ByRachel Santarsiero
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New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.

New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
Flaring of methane from the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG facility is visible for miles in the night sky.
uk/Nigel Farage Dubbed ‘MP for Washington’ for Parroting Trump in Parliament
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Reform leader boosted the president’s attacks on UK Chagos Islands policy more often than raising the cost of living.

Reform leader boosted the president’s attacks on UK Chagos Islands policy more often than raising the cost of living.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-3.0)
uk/Rupert Lowe’s Online Child Safety Investment Clashes with Elon Musk Alliance
BySam Bright
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The tech billionaire’s Grok AI tool has been used to produce millions of explicit images.

The tech billionaire’s Grok AI tool has been used to produce millions of explicit images.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe. DeSmog collage. Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (Musk), House of Commons/Laurie Noble (Lowe)
uk/Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
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New controversy adds to scrutiny of party's finances.

New controversy adds to scrutiny of party's finances.
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Reform MP Sarah Pochin (middle) alongside party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MP Lee Anderson (left). Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Equinor's offshore oil drilling platform at the Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway. (Credit: Jonny Engelsvoll and Lizette Bertelsen/© Equinor)
Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms
ByEllen Ormesher
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Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.
Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage addresses Clacton-on-Sea constituents ahead of the August 2026 by-election. Credit: Nigel Farage/YouTube
Advisor to Climate-Sceptic Reform UK Laments ‘Disaster’ of a Harvest
ByPhoebe Cooke
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Nigel Farage’s anti-net zero policies will do nothing to help struggling farmers, say campaigners.
Nigel Farage’s anti-net zero policies will do nothing to help struggling farmers, say campaigners.
Brian O'Neill (seated, center) at an Upper Merion Township Planning Commission meeting on May 27, 2026. (Credit: Edward Donnelly/DeSmog)
us/Pennsylvania AI Data Center Developer Asked Trump Administration Official to Help Loosen Toxic Emissions Limits
ByEdward Donnelly
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Brian O'Neill asked the State Department attorney to set up meetings with state and federal officials that would clear the way for his project's gas power plants.
Brian O'Neill asked the State Department attorney to set up meetings with state and federal officials that would clear the way for his project's gas power plants.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announcing his government’s National Electricity Strategy. Credit: Prime Minister of Canada/ YouTube
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Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
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Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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Tech vs. Climate

Archbald resident Tamara Misewicz-Healey speaks at Archbald Borough Building on November 24, 2025. (Credit: Edward Donnelly/DeSmog)
Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.
Author Adam Becker’s book, More, Everything, Forever, exposes how tech billionaires’ sci-fi inspired fantasies about ever-more technology making everything, endlessly, better are “wildly implausible.” Credit: Hachette Book Group/DeSmog
AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, Conservative Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho, and Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice. Credit: Lauren Hurley / DESNZ (Miliband), Christine Quarmyne / CCHQ (Coutinho), Reform UK / YouTube (Tice)
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
Koch, Inc., said in October that its real estate arm has been getting into the business of building data centers like this one in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Chad Davis/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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