Seven Reasons to Walk Away From Keystone XL
This is a guest post by Mike Casey, originally published at Scaling Green. There is less than a month before the justices of the Nebraska Supreme court hear arguments in a case that will have a big impact on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The court will hear the argument that ranchers and farmers in […]
Exposed: Lawson’s Climate Denial Donors’ Links to Tobacco and Oil Backed Think Tank
Launch of new Global Warming Policy Forum mired by new revelations linking former chancellor to oil and tobacco-funded climate denial think tank Lord Lawson faces increasing scepticism about the independence of his climate denial charity as the names of two of his anonymous donors with links to the tobacco and oil funded Institute of Economic Affairs […]
Lawson’s Hot and Cold Affair with the Institute of Economic Affairs
Nigel Lawson has also had a long history of association with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). Margaret Thatcher, who promoted Lawson to the cabinet, was championed by the think tank. By happenstance, his last ever public appearance as the British chancellor was on an IEA platform where he defended his record in office. But Lawson’s […]
Nigel Lawson: An Honourable Man
The once chancellor to Thatcher and father of Nigella Lawson stages a remarkable political resurrection by making climate denial his personal crusade. The first of three parts in our inaugural series, An Honourable Man. Â Nigel Lawson is an honourable man. The one-time British chancellor interrupted his idyllic retirement in the South of France to […]
Labor Day News Dump: FERC Hands Enbridge Permit for Tar Sands by Rail Facility
On the Friday before Labor Day — in the form of an age-old “Friday News Dump“ — the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) handed a permit to Enbridge, the tar sands-carrying corporate pipeline giant, to open a tar sands-by-rail facility in Flanagan, Ill. by early-2016. With the capacity to accept 140,000 barrels of tar sands product per day, the company’s rail facility […]
I Crashed A Climate Change Denial Conference In Las Vegas
Originally published at VICE.com, excerpt republished with permission. I’ve been researching the climate denial industry for almost three years and the best way to gather information about this incredibly small yet influential clique is to hang out with them. I attended their 2012 conference of the Heartland Institute, an oil and tobacco funded free market think tank that spends a […]
DeSmog UK Launches To Combat Climate Denial in Europe Ahead of Paris Climate Talks
A welcome message from DeSmogBlog executive director Brendan DeMelle. We’re pleased to introduce DeSmog UK, a brand new investigative journalism and research outlet dedicated to clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science and exposing the individuals and organizations attacking solutions to global warming. The newest addition to the international DeSmog network, DeSmog UK seeks to […]
Nine Years After Katrina, Coastal Restoration Plans Remain Distant Dream for New Orleans
The scars of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that remain nine years later are a reminder of the city’s vulnerability to rising tides and storm surges. Both Katrina and Rita, a hurricane that followed just weeks later, washed away miles of coastal marshland, the state’s first line of defense from storms. The landscape in Plaquemines Parish’s […]
Legal Case: White House Argues Against Considering Climate Change on Energy Projects
Just over a month before the United Nations convenes on September 23 in New York City to discuss climate change and activists gather for a week of action, the Obama White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) argued it does not have to offer guidance to federal agencies it coordinates with to consider climate change impacts for […]
Swapping Farmland For Coal Trains: Union Pacific’s Texas Land Grab
Railroad giant Union Pacific has some big plans for a tiny Texas community. According to locals in the Brazos River Valley, the railroad company is hoping to turn some of the most fertile farmland in Texas into a massive, 72-line rail yard. Union Pacific’s plan would consume as much as 1,800 acres of farmland in the […]