As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data
Secret chemicals. A hush-hush atmosphere surrounding airborne pollution. Non-disclosure agreements preventing open discussion of industry impacts. Some of the same transparency issues that reared their heads during the early days of fracking a decade ago are making a resurgence at the state and local level across the U.S., this time with new twists under the current federal […]
Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), the radical right-wing network fronted by Jordan Peterson, has accepted a large sum from a pharmaceutical executive whose firm was fined $47 million by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last year, DeSmog can reveal. A press release from QOL Medical on 18 April announced that its CEO Derick […]
Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers
The Conservatives received a hefty sum from oil and gas investors and those with roles at anti-climate campaign groups during the period when the party rolled back a key climate commitment. New records released today reveal that Kemi Badenoch’s party accepted £50,000 in January from Neil Record, the chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm […]
Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds
The fossil fuel industry is ramping up efforts to weaken a key EU policy aimed at tackling the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new report by research group InfluenceMap. Published today, the report highlights how oil and gas companies and lobby groups across the EU and U.S. are using a range of tactics […]
Earth to Mark Carney: ‘Decarbonized Oil’ Is as Real as Vitamin Cigarettes
“Decarbonized oil” is now apparently a thing. Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke glowingly about this mythical substance in the context of new bitumen pipelines after his meeting last week in Saskatoon with Canada’s premiers. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith chimed in her support for carbon-free unicorn oil as part of a new “grand bargain” where Ottawa […]
Zia Yusuf: the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s ‘DOGE’ Ringleader
Zia Yusuf almost withdrew from frontline politics as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair emerged from obscurity to become the right-hand-man of Nigel Farage – the odds-on favourite to be the next prime minister. But, on 5 June, he announced his shock resignation following a series of public spats […]
Shoot First, Then Aim: A Look at Alberta’s Petrostate Separatists
A dual American citizen, a man from Arizona, and an Ontario law professor walk into a bar — well, actually, a casino conference room in Red Deer. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the punchline is this: they came to stage a separatist intervention in Alberta. The headliner to the event […]
Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts
Bjorn Lomborg has for years promoted the idea that fossil fuels are crucial for humankind through syndicated newspaper columns, best-selling books and appearances on TV shows including HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He’s been called a “friend” by Trump administration energy secretary and former fracking executive Chris Wright and helps advise an anti-net zero organization […]
Q&A: Why an Advertising Executive Is Blowing the Whistle on Her Agency’s ‘Greenwashing’
Polina Zabrodskaya was well on her way to the top of the creative advertising game. But when she challenged a major client’s environmental and labour-related claims, she says her career path quickly crumbled. Now, Zabrodskaya is taking her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal. She charges that after she raised concerns about misleading information […]
Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds
Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year widely expected to focus on agriculture, the report has raised concerns about high levels of corporate greenwashing and a lack […]