Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

This article is being co-published with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. Click here to get The Lever’s free newsletter. At a recent artificial intelligence conference in Washington, D.C., Google’s president cheered on Trump’s interior secretary after he slammed Silicon Valley’s support of the so-called “climate extremist agenda” and pushed to expand the use of “incredibly clean” […]

Data Center Lobbyists Clear the Way for Mega-Projects in Rural Georgia

County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. If passed, the latest draft of the laws will ease requirements for “Project Sail” — a proposed data center in a rural area of Coweta County, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta — relative […]

The Peak Numbers Canada’s Oil-Friendly Newspapers Keep Ignoring

Canadians have been bombarded with media stories promoting a common and simplistic theme equating more oil production with greater Canadian prosperity. But what if the opposite was true? Lost in the oil-friendly media cacophony was a recent report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) — an award-winning independent think tank — showing that as the […]

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead

Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “agentic” or autonomous AI key roles in risky real-world operations like drilling for oil and keeping the nation’s power grids up and running. Amid the Trump administration’s push to promote AI development, oil and gas […]

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures

Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP

Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers withdrew planning application from the site near Whitehaven in April, after the High Court found that the planning approval for UK’s first deep coal mine […]

Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival

James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event organised by an oil-funded think tank. Speaking at a festival hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Esztergom, Hungary last week, Orr accused politicians of failing to “reflect […]

How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution

EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – just months before the start of the latest UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. The latest round, running […]

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-friendly

The meat industry may have enlisted environmental groups to persuade people to “feel better” about eating beef, despite the sector’s ballooning emissions of climate-heating pollution, according to a public relations strategy document.  The plan, created in 2021 by MHP Group, a London-based communications agency, was addressed to the the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, an umbrella […]

New Global Market for “Plastic Credits” Threatens Livelihoods at Kenyan Dump

This article was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. At Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, men, women and children scramble over vast mountains of trash — each waste picker hoping to unearth anything they can sell.  Scavenging silently among them, marabou storks — some nearly five feet tall — wage their own daily contest for survival. A […]