Finger-Pointing Over Funding Freeze May Lead Trump to Drop Lawyer Linked to DOGE and Project 2025
The recent federal funding freeze spurred immediate finger-pointing inside the Trump administration, with anonymous sources telling major news outlets that attorney Mark Paoletta was responsible for drafting the infamous memo that briefly paused trillions in federal funds. Paoletta, newly returned as the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) general counsel, is connected to […]
Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the ‘Weaponized Abuse’ of Authoritarianism
It’s a ‘coup in plain sight.’ That’s political analyst Jared Yates Sexton’s verdict on the news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was granted full access to the systems that handle trillions of dollars in federal payments at the weekend — despite having no official role in government. The speed at which U.S. President […]
Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland’
Russia has been spreading climate disinformation in Poland as part of a “long-term cognitive war” to sow division. This is according to a major new report by Poland’s military counterintelligence service, which reviewed over 2,000 unclassified and classified documents from 2004 through to 2024. “The conclusions are alarming,” said the commission of 11 independent experts […]
Global Football’s Dirty Climate Tackle
When seemingly hardened observers watched in horrified awe at the record Los Angeles wildfiresturning whole neighbourhoods into hot, charred, post-apocalyptic remains, cold sweats were almostcertainly running down the backs of the city’s event planners. Why? Next year Los Angeles hostsmultiple games for the next men’s football World Cup, and player’s health is set to be […]
Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting, Demand Democrats Put Workers and Climate First
Spurred on by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles that experts say were climate-change related, the activist group Climate Defiance held a protest on January 31 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C., against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), calling on it to get dirty fossil fuel money out of Democratic […]
Peter Mandelson’s Consultancy Lobbied New Government on Behalf of Shell
Labour’s top diplomat to Donald Trump’s United States leads a public affairs firm that has attempted to influence the new UK government on behalf of the oil and gas giant Shell, and the coal mining company Anglo American. Peter Mandelson – who was a Cabinet minister under former Labour prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon […]
Cenovus Funded ‘Grassroots’ Groups That Oppose Climate Laws, Document Reveals
A “grassroots” group called Canada Action has run nationwide ads on billboards, buses and social media promoting fossil fuels. An industry organization known as the Conference Board of Canada has produced reports claiming climate policy will cause dire economic impacts. The Fraser Institute think tank has questioned whether the climate emergency is real. These groups […]
Danielle Smith’s Capitulation to Big Coal Echoes Her Fawning Interactions with Donald Trump
Should Canada’s leaders stand up to powerful foreign bullies or simply give them what they want and hope for the best? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith revealed her preference this month when her Energy Minister Brian Jean quietly instructed regulators to once again rescind a moratorium on coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies […]
We Need a Data Revolution to Avert Climate Disaster
The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the aftermath of such devastation, an obvious question looms: How did we miss the warning signs? The answer is clear. Unlike other feedback systems designed to drive immediate response — think of the life-saving equipment in intensive care […]
Climate Denial Group Aided Legal Defense of Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire
An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly carrying out a hack-and-leak operation commissioned on behalf of ExxonMobil is fighting against his extradition to a Brooklyn, NY, detention center. During a packed hearing last week at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court attended by DeSmog, lawyers for Amit Forlit used a legal strategy that one […]