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 […]
Oil and Gas Investments of Donald Trump’s New UK Ambassador
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be UK ambassador runs a firm with investments in several oil and gas companies, DeSmog can reveal. Billionaire Warren Stephens, a major Trump donor who was nominated on Monday to be the next UK ambassador, is chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc., one of the largest privately-owned investment […]
CAPP President Abandons ‘Net Zero’ Message at Exclusive Industry Event
Have you ever wondered what Canada’s oil patch says behind closed doors? DeSmog had an opportunity to attend an energy and natural resource forum hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, and in contrast to its public messaging emphasizing carbon capture and storage (CCS), oil industry leadership instead called for less regulation, more extraction […]
EQT’s ‘Bulldog’ Has D.C. in His Grip, with Profits — and Maybe Higher Gas Bills — on the Horizon
This article was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region, and is supported by the Pulitzer Center. One morning in late September, on the shores of Lake Erie, Toby Rice took the stage before a room of fracking executives and gas industry types working in the Marcellus Shale. “I was in New York […]
DeSmog Announces Geoff Dembicki as Global Managing Editor
DeSmog is excited to announce the promotion of Geoff Dembicki to the position of Global Managing Editor. Geoff is an award-winning investigative reporter, author, and long-time friend of DeSmog since we first discovered his excellent reporting and shoved a copy of Climate Cover-Up into his hands in 2010. His 2022 book, The Petroleum Papers, was […]
Kemi Badenoch’s Policy Chief Attacked Net Zero Climate Target
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s head of policy slammed the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions goal while working for a group that has been funded by BP, DeSmog can report. Members of the new Tory leader’s top team have held senior roles at think tanks that are part of the Tufton Street network – a co-ordinated […]
Industry Group Pre-Wrote Comments for ‘Workers’ Opposing Vancouver Gas Ban
In the lead-up to a vote from Vancouver city council this week about whether to reinstate a ban on natural gas heating in new homes, an industry group called Resource Works that has ties to some of the country’s biggest gas producers sent out an urgent request to its email list. “Action needed,” the subject […]