Everything You Need to Know About Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd Before COP21: Part 5

This is the fifth and final part in our series profiling Amber Rudd. Here DeSmog UK looks at her stance on climate change and DECC priorities as we go into the Paris climate conference. Read Part 4 here. Green campaigners were relieved when Amber Rudd was appointed as Energy and Climate Secretary at the Department for […]

Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for "Exxon Knew" Probe

With the hottest October in world history recorded recently, a slew of advocacy groups have delivered 360,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a probe of petrochemical industry giant ExxonMobil’s history of funding climate change denial despite what the company knew about climate science.  The groups ranging from 350.org, Food and Watch Watch, Climate […]

Despite Low Oil Prices, Renewable Power Gaining Traction, Energy Agencies Report — But Not Yet Fast Enough for the Climate

The shift away from coal and towards renewable sources of energy is slowly beginning to gain traction, two recently-released reports from American and global energy agencies show. “The biggest story is in the case of renewables,” International Energy Agency executive director, Fatih Birol, told the Guardian as this year’s World Energy Outlook was released. “It is no […]

Everything You Need to Know About UK Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd Before COP21: Part 4

This is the fourth part in our series profiling Amber Rudd. Here   DeSmog UK   looks at her time so far as Secretary of State. Read Part 3 here. When the 2015 election rolled around last May, green campaigners were relieved when Amber Rudd was appointed as Energy and Climate Secretary at the Department for Energy and […]

Caroline Lucas Calls for Fossil Fuel Industry to be 'Kicked Out' of Paris Climate Negotiations

Fossil fuel companies should be “kicked out” of the climate negotiations in Paris at the end of this month, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has told the House of Commons. Her comments were made during a questioning session with the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, in parliament on […]

Water Pollution Trading Programs Under Fire as Report Finds Lax Oversight, "Shell Games" Put Waterways at Risk

A little-noticed federally-backed program is chipping away at the foundation of the Clean Water Act, one of the nation’s core environmental laws, allowing major polluters to evade responsibility for contaminating rivers, streams and other waterways, an environmental group said in a report released Thursday. So called “water quality trading” programs have quietly spread into more than […]

The Evangelical Christian Climate Deniers Behind Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle Documentary

One unambiguous video title states that “Climate Policies kill. People will die”, while others scream how moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions “devalues human life” and “kills thousands” in Britain. All this extremist language comes from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a US-based Christian evangelical group that rejects climate science and is preparing […]

Hillary Clinton’s Plan To Silence The “War On Coal” For Good

In the run-up to the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections, the “war on coal” talking point was used incessantly by the Republican Party. It wasn’t until nearly a year after those elections that the coal industry publicly admitted that the war on coal never existed in the first place, but that hasn’t stopped politicians from using […]

Amber Rudd Cites Climate Denier Lord Lawson as Inspiration for New Energy Policy

Amber Rudd’s energy policy ‘reset’ hinges on a last-century vision championed by none other than Lord Lawson, the one-time chancellor to Margaret Thatcher and Britain’s leading climate denier. The Energy and Climate Secretary called Lawson’s free market approach “the Conservative way” and quoted Lawson’s 1982 speech where he set out plans to break up the nationalised energy monopolies. […]

Everything You Need to Know About UK Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd Before COP21: Part 3

This is Part 3 in our Amber Rudd series where DeSmog UK looks at her close ties to George Osborne. Read Part 2 here. Observers disagree about whether energy and climate secretary Amber Rudd is a ‘Turquoise Tory’, a conservative with a small ‘c’, or whether in fact she is merely a career politician serving the […]