Internal Documents Reveal Extensive Industry Influence Over EPA's National Fracking Study
In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched an ambitious and highly consequential study of the risks that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, poses to American drinking waterย supplies. โThis is about using the best possible science to do what the American people expect the EPA to do โ ensure that the health of their communities and […]
'One of the Highlights of My Life is Being Called a Pagan Pornographer'
The โLady of the Northโ, Northumberlandia, has been hailed by her supporters as an iconic gateway for the region, attracting visitors from all around the world, writes Matteo Civillini. Standing 34 metres high and 470 metres long, the ยฃ3m landform sculpture in the shape of a reclining nude female sits proudly at the centre of […]
Was Climate Science Denialist Willie Soon Funded To Do Science Or Was It Just PR Cash From The Fossil Fuel Industry?
So one of the climate science denial industryโs most celebrated scientists has been caught describing his research work as โdeliverablesโ to his fossil fuelย funders. Dr Willie Soon, the aeronautics engineer who dabbles in public health, atmospheric science, solar physics and sea level rise, describes himself as an โindependentย scientistโ. More often though over the years, he […]
Iowa Governor Terry Branstadยดs Former Chief of Staff Now A Paid Lobbyist For Bakken Oil Pipeline Company
By Davidย Goodner Energy Transfer Partners, a Fortune 500 corporation attempting to build a controversial crude oil pipeline through the state of Iowa, has hired Governor Terry Branstadยดs former chief of staff to lobby on its behalf at the stateย legislature. Jeff Boeyink, a long-time confidant and ally of Governor Branstad, who served as the governorยดs chief […]
Willie Soon's Climate Science Denial Wasn't Ever Credible: Climate Scientists
โThe science that Willie Soon does is almost pointless.โย – NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, to the New Yorkย Times Recent revelations regarding Smithsonian scientist Willie Soon’s financing and coordination with fossil fuel companies for studies undermining the science of climate change has received quite a bit of attention. Our friends at the Climate Investigations Center have […]
Legal Petition Seeks Emergency Moratorium On Fracking in California
A coalition of over 150 environmental, health, and public advocacy organizations in California filed a legal petition Thursday seeking to compel Governor Jerry Brown to issue an emergency moratorium on fracking in the state. The proximate cause for the legal petition seems to be revelations that fracking flowback in California was found to contain dangerously […]
You Don't Want To Miss DeSmog UK's Most Important Stories From February
DeSmog UK is officially six months old. Boy does time fly!ย ย While February may be the shortest month of the year, it was jam-packed with some pretty incredible stories. And DeSmog UK has been busy digging into them forย you. This month saw our most read story on the site to date, when we revealed how […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding
Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off the controversy surrounding Willie Soon, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hookย easily. Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie Soon and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more […]
Was Willie Soon Paid For Science…Or Anti-Science?
Willie Soon has been in the news lately, but the recent 131p FOIA shines even more light on climate anti-science.ย It details tax-exempt tactics that use a sciency facade to promote anti-science to the public. It includes some grant proposals and results for 2008-2012. These are quite enlightening, but cover only a fraction of Soon’s […]
Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
In 1998, representatives from a number of fossil fuel companies and industry front groups, led by the American Petroleum Institute, gathered to craft a plan to undermine the American publicโs understanding of climate science, and submarine any chances of the United States ratifying the Kyotoย Protocol. Weeks after the private meeting, an eight page memo including […]