Shale Industry Resorts to Conspiracy Theories to Explain Opposition to Fracking

As evidence mounts concerning the hazards of fracking, the oil and gas industry is increasingly trying to redirect public discussion of the topic, focusing instead on the funding behind the environmental groups rather than the actual science of the matter. Aside from showing a certain desperation, the tactic is especially disingenuous since this industry has no […]

Bomb Trains Keep Rolling While Congressional Committee Bickers About Bakken Crude

When DeSmogBlog reported last week that no actual petroleum scientists would be testifying at the congressional science committee’s hearing on the characteristics of Bakken crude oil, we knew the hearing was unlikely to make any substantial progress toward improving the safety of transporting this volatile oil on trains through American communities.     Indeed, we expected the […]

Our Inaugural Series: An Honourable Man

Lord Lawson has become the most influential and respected climate denier in the world with the launch of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Our inaugural series charts his remarkable return to the political stage.  Lawson was chancellor to Margaret Thatcher during the neoliberal free market revolution of the 1980s and personally orchestrated the creation of Britain’s […]

“Starting With a Mistake, A Remorseless Logician Can End Up in Bedlham”

Hayek achieved his dream of becoming a university academic, but could he really challenge the intellectual prowess and political influence of the master John Maynard Keynes? Friedrich von Hayek had abandoned his early socialism in favour of neoliberal free market ideas. But the fashionable theory sat somewhere between the two. John Maynard Keynes, who always denied being […]

Pennsylvania Plant Agrees to Stop Dumping Partially-Treated Fracking Wastewater in River After Lengthy Lawsuit

A Pennsylvania wastewater treatment plant alleged to have dumped toxic and radioactive materials into the Allegheny River has agreed to construct a new treatment facility, under a settlement announced Thursday with an environmental organization that had filed suit against the plant. Back in 2011, Pennsylvania made national headlines because the state’s treatment plants – including municipal […]

Future of Our Climate Depends on Next Fifteen Years of Investment, New Report States

Investments in renewable energies and low-carbon infrastructure can help the environment and the economy at the same time, says a comprehensive new report released Tuesday. The report — Better Growth Better Climate — found that about US $90 trillion will likely be invested in infrastructure in the world’s cities, agriculture and energy systems over the next […]

Cameron's 'Greenest Government' Shown 'Red Card'

David Cameron’s “greenest government ever” has been issued with a “red card” because of serious failures in reducing air pollution, protecting biodiversity and preventing flooding. The report issued by Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) assigned three of the ten environmental areas covered in the report  a “red card” whilst failing to assign the top ‘green scorecard’ in […]

Republican Senators Push Manhattan Institute's Dirty Energy Propaganda Paper

Two Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be releasing a white paper later this week that will allegedly make the case that “regulations” and legislation that “raises energy costs” is damaging America’s underclass.  Senators Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Tim Scott (SC) have teamed up with the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy […]

Denier Lord Lawson’s Fight Against Wind Farms Proves Quixotic

Lord Lawson and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have blasted foreign owned wind farms but there is one Polish company supported by a Tory lord which is doing very well out of renewables “If you tried to devise the most costly and inefficient means of generating electricity imaginable, you would choose wind power,” bellows Lord Lawson […]

Speeding Up Renewable Energy Access Critical for Climate, Health and Economy: Report

Renewable energies are increasingly seen as the best solution to a growing global population demanding affordable access to electricity while reducing the need for toxic fossil fuels that are creating unsustainable levels of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the underlying message of a new report — REthinking Energy: Towards a New Power System — published this week […]