Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending
The Sierra Club sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging the President to make good on his promise of increasing transparency in Washington. Specifically, the environmental group wants the administration to be forthright about the political spending of mega-polluters and their governmentย contracts. Courtney Hight, director of the Sierra Club’s Democracy Program, issued the […]
Let Them Eat Climate Change
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined. ย The free market think tanks funded by dirty energy have spent the last decade claiming there is […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.ย If nothing else, the G7 countriesโ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, oil and gas. This takes matters a […]
Breaking: Vera Scroggins Takes Deal in Wiretapping Case, Vows to Continue Anti-Fracking Fight
โWho is the danger here?โ Vera Scroggins,ย an anti-fracking activist based in Susquehanna County asked after reaching an agreement to resolve a case in which she faced criminal charges at the Montrose, Pennsylvania courthouse.ย โMe or an industry that is contaminating the air andย water?โ Scroggins, 64, exited the Montrose courtroom, greeting her supporters after signing […]
A Brief Guide to Southeastern Anti-Solar Front Groups
This is a guest post by Dan Zegart ofย Climate Investigationsย Center No one who reads this space regularly would be surprised to hear that the big utility companies employ front groups to further their political agendas in the states in which theyย operate. After all, weโve reported here on a scientist who was little more than a […]
That Time When a Koch-Funded Washington Lawyer Made a Secret Plan to Derail the Kyoto Protocol in Europe
This DeSmog UK epic history post recalls the transatlantic effort by the European sceptic Benny Peiser and Washington lawyer Chris Horner to bring down the Kyotoย Protocol. Prior to teaming up with Lord Lawson at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Benny Peiser was working with Julian Morris at his free market think tank, the International Policy […]
New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official
โAfter years of exhaustive research and examination of the science and facts, prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the only reasonableย alternative.โ Those were the words many activists in New York never expected to hear from Joe Martens, head of the stateโs Department of Environmental Conservation, but they were included in a statement released today as New […]
Two Minutes To Safeguard Our Future
This is an guest op-ed by Alex Lenferna, Diego Arguedas Ortiz, Leehi Yona and Chris Wright. Two minutes. Once a year, global youth are given two minutes to provide input on global climate policy during the fortnight-long United Nations Climate Summit. While country negotiators deliberate back and forth for days, youth representatives receive 120 seconds […]
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science,ย are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Littleย blush.ย In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plansย proceedย to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, โCanada would have to be […]
DeSmog UK Monthly Recap โ Donโt Miss Our Best Stories in June
DeSmog UK kicked off the summer with a bang as we headed to Washington, DC to check out this yearโs climate denial conference, hosted by the Koch-funded Heartlandย Institute. However, the Heartland Instituteโs principled crusaders for free speech took the pragmatic step of banning us โ credentialed journalists โ from its event, fearing negativeย publicity. Of course, […]