Trump Interior Nominee Doug Burgum Hosted ‘VIP Dinner’ for Oil, Gas, and Coal Execs Last Year, Emails Show
Doug Burgum, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, held a dinner for fossil fuel CEOs at a private event during the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, held in Bismarck, ND, from May 14 to 16, 2024, emails obtained by the research group Fieldnotes and shared with DeSmog show. During his Secretary of the Interior Senate […]
The Rising Hunger of AI Data Centers Accelerates the Need for Clean Energy to Meet Demand
In just seconds, a click and a prompt can conjure a song or a compelling story lede as if by magic. But behind the seamless convenience of AI tools lies an insatiable appetite for energy. Data centers powering artificial intelligence consume as much electricity as entire cities, straining grids and reshaping energy landscapes. To meet […]
Alberta’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Strategy Doesn’t Apply to Polluters
“Alberta is taking a zero-tolerance approach to crime,” bragged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2023 on social media after her government announced more enforcement, greater emphasis on public safety, and limited discretion of prosecutors to let offenders off the hook. “ “There is an increasing sense that the system is not holding criminals properly accountable […]
The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum
This piece is about what we talk about when we talk about ‘climate change.’ Mostly, whether in the campaigning world or the policy world, the tech world or the business world, the everyday world or the world of international summitry, we mainly talk about cutting carbon emissions. And if we talk about impacts, we talk […]
U.S. Climate Denial Group Using Far-Right to Attack EU Green Policies
A leading U.S. climate science denial group has been attempting to scupper major EU climate reforms by forging alliances with far-right figures, DeSmog and The Guardian can reveal. The Heartland Institute, which has for decades been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, claims that it worked with politicians in […]
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]
Cifra récord de empresarios en la Cumbre de Biodiversidad de la ONU
The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 12 November 2024 De acuerdo con DeSmog, los representantes de grupos industriales y empresariales han duplicado su presencia en la última cumbre de la ONU sobre biodiversidad. Este hecho parece abonar a la sospecha de que están teniendo cada vez más influencia en las conferencias […]
New Study Shows How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create a Climate Denial Echo Chamber on Social Media
From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS Climate concludes. The study found that […]
Fossil Fuel Advocate Nigel Farage is Building a House in High Climate Risk Area
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has called for climate policies to be scrapped, is building a new property in an area threatened by flooding due to global warming. Farage was given permission late last year to knock down a “tired” house in Greatstone, Kent, and replace it with a three-storey newbuild. The house is […]
Pierre Poilievre Met With Denier-Backed UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch
Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasn’t articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like “axe the tax” and “spike the hike.” With the governing Liberal party in disarray and Conservatives leading the polls by almost 25 percent, Canadians need to know how Poilievre would lead rather than the opposition attack dog […]