Russian Gas Giant Given Access to Global LNG Summit Alongside German Government
BERLIN – At a five-star hotel next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the world’s largest liquified natural gas (LNG) companies met this week for the 24th edition of the World LNG Summit and Awards. As the participants heralded their position at the forefront of a global LNG boom, one gas giant’s presence at the […]
‘Net Zero Sceptic’ Kemi Badenoch Accepted £10,000 from Chevron Director
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch received a donation from a director of a fossil fuel giant during this year’s party leadership election, DeSmog can reveal. The new Tory leader has vocally criticised the UK’s climate ambitions in recent months, calling herself a “net zero sceptic”. Badenoch has suggested that the goal of reaching net zero emissions […]
Kemi Badenoch’s Climate Denial Tour
Speaking to an audience in Washington DC last week, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch declared that the conservative desire to “protect the natural world” had been “hacked, replaced by a radical green absolutism”. “Looking after our planet became an exclusive discussion about net zero and reducing emissions, and alongside it the growth of activist government […]
Revealed: The ‘Vested Interests’ on the EU’s Agriculture Committee
This investigation was coordinated by Le Monde and the nonprofit research organisation ARIA, in partnership with Transparency International EU and seven European media: De Tijd (Belgium), L’Espresso (Italy), der Spiegel and ZDF (Germany), der Standard (Austria), El Confidential (Spain) and DeSmog. An animal feed consultant, a farming union president, and a Big Dairy stalwart are […]
Labour Donors Lobbied the New Government on Behalf of Fossil Fuel Giants
Consultancies that donated staff and resources to the Labour Party’s general election campaign have since lobbied the government on behalf of oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal. Seven lobbying firms that have collectively donated or gifted more than £314,000 to the party since 2022 have helped clients – including Shell, Equinor, and British Gas […]
‘A Valuable And Generous Ally’: How Exxon and Atlas Network Worked to Block Global Climate Action
In March 1999, Alejandro Chafuen, then president of an international free-market coalition called Atlas Network, wrote to an executive at ExxonMobil (XOM) to offer the American oil major a friendly note of appreciation. “On behalf of Atlas and the institutes it supports, we would like to thank you again for the Exxon Corporation’s generous contributions,” […]
Anti-Renewable Influencers Parrot Takes from Fictional Series ‘Landman’
Tommy Norris is a grizzled oilman from Texas who has a low opinion of wind turbines and electric cars. “You have any idea how much diesel you have to burn to mix that much concrete, or make that steel, and haul this shit out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want […]
Industry-Backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn
Governments have been cautioned against adopting a new methane metric that would “seriously undermine” climate action and which “penalises” low-income countries. A statement issued by more than 60 civil society groups on Thursday (5 December) argued that a new standard known as Global Warming Potential Star (GWP*) to measure methane from livestock could “severely damage” […]
Tory Peer With Oil and Gas Investments Slams Climate Targets in House of Lords
A major Conservative donor and member of the House of Lords has made a series of recent speeches in Parliament that have lambasted the UK’s climate ambitions, while holding more than £300,000 in fossil fuel shares. Tory peer Lord Moynihan of Chelsea has shares worth at least £100,000 in the fossil fuel giants Shell and […]
North Carolina Town Sues Duke Energy for Climate ‘Deception’
This article by Floodlight is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States. In a civil lawsuit, the Town Council of Carrboro accuses Duke Energy, one of the largest […]
