Australia’s IPA Think Tank Adds Coal Lobbying To Its Climate Science Denial
The Institute of Pubic Affairs holds the unofficial and dubious title of being Australia’s leading climate science denial organisation. The so-called “think tank”, based in Melbourne, promotes fringe views on climate science from non-experts while attacking renewable energy. Now if you were a coal company, you’d be concerned how for many decades scientists have linked the burning […]
Most Recent Oil Train Accidents and Spills Involved ‘Safer’ CPC-1232 Tank Cars
Roosevelt County chief deputy sheriff Corey Reum was one of the first responders to the recent Bakken oil train derailment in Montana, a few miles from the North Dakota border. “We’re lucky it didn’t ignite,” Reum told ABC News. That is just one of the things first responders have learned since the deadly accident two years ago […]
Government Renewable Energy Subsidy Cuts Leave Industry ‘in Limbo’ and Send ‘Worrying Signal’ About UK Climate Commitment
The government’s cuts to renewable energy subsidies will leave the industry “in limbo” and send a “worrying signal” about the UK’s commitment to tackling climate change ahead of the Paris climate conference, warns Angus Macneil, chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has seen an intense backlash […]
How American Tea Partiers, Big Oil, and the Kochs Used Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth as Target Practice
DeSmog UK’s epic history series continues with a look at how Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth became target practice for Koch think tanks and the Tea Party caucus in the Republican Party. There appeared to be a new international bipartisanship on the issue of climate change when, during his 2006 campaign, Conservative leader David Cameron emphatically […]
ALEC's Annual Meeting Kicks Off In The Second Biggest Solar City In America
The American Legislative Exchange Council, more popularly known as the corporate bill mill ALEC, is holding its annual meeting this week in San Diego, which is second only to Los Angeles in terms of US cities with the most installed photovoltaic solar capacity. Even looking at per capita solar capacity, San Diego still ranks in […]
Senate Working to Strip Braking Safety Requirements From Oil Train Regulations
As documented on DeSmog, the new oil-by-rail regulations contain major concessions to the oil and rail industries as the result of relentless lobbying during the rulemaking process. One logical safety measure that the rail industry failed to block from the new rules was a requirement for modern braking systems know as electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) […]
Amber Rudd: Renewable Energy Not Main Priority for DECC
Only 10 weeks into the new Conservative Government and already the credibility of its green policies are being called into question. Amber Rudd, head of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), said yesterday of DECC’s 2015 priorities: “Carbon reduction targets are more essential than renewable energy targets.” Rudd explained during the Energy and Climate […]
Bjørn Lomborg Brings Profit-Protective Policies Back To Denmark (Actually Not After All)
Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) left Denmark in 2012, is not really located in its Massachusetts mailbox storefront, found no $4M Australian home, and represents no real consensus.1 It is a fine marketing vehicle for him personally and has paid well for emitting clever clouds of confusion. Now a new Danish government wants him back and again […]
Climate Denier Lord Lawson 'Has No Influence' Says Head of UK Committee on Climate Change
Lord Lawson has no influence, fails to listen, and is touchy and rude – according to the Conservative peer leading Britain’s independent Committee on Climate Change. But Lord Deben does not believe George Osborne, the chancellor, has fallen under the influence of Lord Lawson on the issue of climate change. He also described the failure […]
Steve Hilton Masterminded Cameron's Climate Crusade – But Was it Just Greenwash?
The International Policy Network was one of the UK’s most prominent climate-denying think tanks but in 2011 it closed its doors as science triumphed over ideology. The DeSmog UK history series continues. The International Policy Network (IPN) was an offspring of Antony Fisher’s free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), and its board […]