Climate Groups Seek Direction After Demoralizing String of Defeats

onAug 30, 2010 @ 11:08 PDT

A year ago, these groups seemed to be at the peak of their influence, needing only the Senate’s approval for a landmark climate-change bill. But they lost that fight, done in by the sluggish economy and opposition from business and fossil-fuel interests.

Now the groups are wondering how they can keep this loss from becoming a rout as their opponents press their advantage and try to undo the Obama administration’s climate efforts. At two events last week in Wisconsin, environmental groups seemed to be trying two strategies: defiance and pleading for sympathy.Neither one drew enough people to fill a high school gym.

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Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’

ByTaylor Noakes

onDec 8, 2025 @ 04:00 PST

The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

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Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play

ByEmily Sanders

onDec 7, 2025 @ 10:04 PST

Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.