Guess Who Pays for All That Tea!

onOct 25, 2010 @ 08:26 PDT

BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama’s energy agenda, the Guardian has learned. An analysis of campaign finance by Climate Action Network Europe (Cane) found nearly 80% of campaign donations from a number of major European firms were directed towards senators who blocked action on climate change. These included incumbents who have been embraced by the Tea Party such as Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and the notorious climate change denier James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma.

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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.