How Clinton's Presidency Caused Oil-Funded Lobbyists to Intensify Attacks on Climate Science
The DeSmog UK epic history series continues with a look at how oil-funded lobbyists increased their attacks on climate science as Bill Clinton’s new policy era began. The 1993 election of President Bill Clinton in the US heralded a new era in climate policy. And, in turn, the oil industry lobbyists would intensify their attacks on […]
Texas Town at Center of Latest Earthquake Swarm Questions Fracking Impact
January has been a shaky month for Irving, Texas. Twelve earthquakes rattled the city during a 48-hour period at the end of the first week of the new year. “It was very scary. I was at my job on the 4th floor in a cubicle surrounded by glass,” Tonya Rochelle Tatum, a loan specialist who […]
MPs Overwhelmingly Reject Moratorium on Fracking
Fracking lives to see another day in Britain as MPs overwhelmingly reject a proposal to place a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. A mere 52 MPs voted in favour of the amendment to the controversial Infrastructure Bill yesterday. The vote follows a report released earlier that day by the cross-party House of Commons Environmental […]
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages
On January 21, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) again displayed the same deception/incompetence that pervaded his book, The Greatest Hoax (2012). In this video segment (3:00-5:20), he presented a poster on the Senate floor that matches the image below from “Kyoto by Degrees,” an anonymous Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion piece, June 21, 2005. Both contained claims plausibly […]
Matt 'King Coal' Ridley Loses Power Station Buyer Due to European Regulations
The latest exclusive from our #MattKingCoal investigation shows how climate denier Matt Ridley has been impacted by European carbon emissions regulations… Lord Ridley, the aristocratic farmer and science writer, has weighted all the evidence and after due consideration decided that the world’s leading researchers have become overly alarmed by the threat posed by climate change. His views […]
Tate Visitors Could Donate 1p Each to Make Gallery BP Free
Art lovers visiting Tate would have to donate less than 1p to allow the galleries to drop oil company BP as a sponsor, according to figures released today following a Freedom of Information request. Sponsorship figures released today show that BP donations increased from just £150,000 in 1991 to only £330,000 in 2006 – less than 0.5 […]
MPs brand fracking 'incompatible' with UK climate targets
This post originally appeared on Carbon Brief. Fracking should be banned because it is incompatible with the UK‘s climate targets, according to the cross-party House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). The committee’s report has been rushed out in advance of a series of parliamentary votes this afternoon on the government’s Infrastructure Bill. Ten MPs have […]
Obama’s Secret Anti-Environmental Agenda: Ring Of Fire Features DeSmog On Obama Policies That Fly In The Face Of Climate Legacy
The new Republican majority in the Senate was just a few hours old when Mitch McConnell vowed to pass legislation that would greenlight the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, despite President Obama’s veto threat. That’s just one of the many domestic actions that would undermine efforts by the Obama Administration to rein in greenhouse gas […]
DeSmogCAST 9: U.S. Oil Exports Up, Kinder Morgan's Secrets and Teens Sue for the Climate
In this episode of DeSmogCAST host Farron Cousins joins DeSmog cast Carol Linnitt and Justin Mikulka to discuss how recent changes in the global oil market, combined with a language change regarding crude oil, have led to an increase in U.S. oil exports. We also discuss a new ruling in Canada that allows pipeline […]
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution
This is a guest post by Henner Weithöner originally published on Climate News Network. The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply—leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in […]