Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda

LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas industry’s closest ally, vowing to “drill, baby, drill” in the North Sea and scrap the windfall tax on excess […]

Labour’s AI Drive Faces Fossil Fuel Pressure at Party Conference

LIVERPOOL – Gas companies and Conservative lobby groups have been leaning on the Labour Party to allow tech companies to use gas to power their energy-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI). A number of events have taken place at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool this week focused on how the UK can become a leader in building […]

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reveal. A major new investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences. DeSmog found […]

Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith boasted in June that a private sector proponent for a new bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s coast would come forward “within weeks.” Three months have passed and exactly zero companies have bet their own money to back up the pipeline hype constantly coming from Smith.  Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the first tranche […]

How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa

This story was produced in partnership with the investigative journalism platform Follow The Money. On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have just been brought ashore in colourful wooden canoes. For generations, the daily catch […]

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it could produce enough electricity to power three million UK homes. The “hyperscaler” supercomputer campus in Blyth, Northumberland – a crown jewel of the […]

‘Madness’: Reform Defector Danny Kruger’s Climate U-Turn

“We need large-scale reindustrialisation and an end to the madness of net zero,” said East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger, Reform UK’s latest defector from the Conservative Party, in The Telegraph on 21 September. In the piece, Kruger also called for “an industrial policy to deregulate enterprise and supply the essentials – affordable energy, most of […]

No, the U.S. Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels to Win ‘an AI Arms Race’ Against China

As the U.S. braces for a surge in artificial intelligence (AI)–related electricity demand, the natural gas industry has a message for the public: Fossil fuels must power the future’s data centers, the computer-filled warehouses where AI models like ChatGPT primarily train and deploy.  A range of oil and gas industry groups and industry-friendly nonprofits are making the case that AI’s growing hunger for […]

How Brazil’s Oil Giant Is Using Gen-Z Science and Climate Influencers to Green Up Its Image

This story is based on investigative reporting first published by Agência Pública. In a recent Instagram reel, a Brazilian influencer known as “Mylly Biologando” grins at the camera after inspecting a test tube filled with something bubbling and green. It’s a microalgae that could “transform the future” as a source of less-polluting biodiesel fuel, explains Biologando, […]

‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers

As the Trump administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reassuring buyers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could slash climate-altering emissions from a growing range of fossil-fuel projects — like blue hydrogen, LNG export terminals, and data centers. “That’s right: data […]