Kemi Badenoch Manifesto Uses Climate Denial Group Research to Attack Net Zero
Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch borrowed evidence from a U.S. climate denial group to criticise climate action and advocate for more fossil fuel extraction, DeSmog can reveal. The former business and trade secretary said she is a โnet zero scepticโ but โnot a climate change scepticโ in her leadership pitch at the Conservative Party conference […]
Vanceโs โWeird Scienceโ Debate Remark Echoes Billionaire Who Powered His Political Rise
More than a million Americans along Hurricane Heleneโs path had no access to electricity to watch last nightโs vice presidential debate. An estimated 3.5 million had their access to clean tap water disrupted or entirely cut off during the 90-minute contest, with federal officials tracking over 600 public water systems that partially or fully failed […]
No Mention of Climate Change in Ontario Ministerโs Disaster Response Speech
At a national convention on climate change adaptation, an Ontario government minister didnโt once mention climate change. Trevor Jones, Ontarioโs associate minister of emergency preparedness, addressed a crowd at the Canadian Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaptation (CEPCA) Convention, held in Ottawa last week. Jones focused primarily on government spending related to providing emergency equipment to […]
Canadians Are Still Paying for Trudeauโs Trans Mountain Pipeline
Would you rent out a property for less than half of what you need to pay off your mortgage? The federal government is the owner of the $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX), yet charges oil companies less than half of the tolls required to recover the eye-watering capital costs owed to the Canadian […]
Michael Goveโs Climate Views Put Him on Collision Course With New Spectator Bosses
The incoming editor of The Spectator, Michael Gove, emphasised his belief in environmentalism and climate action at Tory conference yesterday โ setting up a rift with the magazineโs new ownership. At the event in Birmingham, hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), former Conservative MP Gove, who stood down at the 2024 general election, suggested […]
Evidence CEOs Tried to Illegally Boost Oil Prices Grows as FTC Bars Hess from Chevronโs Board
FTCโs latest findings bolster claims of collusion among shale producers raised in ongoing Congressional probes and major class-action lawsuits.
Conservatives Have Taken ยฃ7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors
Funders and directors of the UKโs leading climate science denial group have donated more than ยฃ7 million to the Conservative Party over the past two decades, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcherโs former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as โextremely […]
EPA Found No Threat of Air Pollution During an Oil Spill in Louisianaโs Bayou Lafourche Despite Sickening Fumes
EPA Found No Threat of Air Pollution During an Oil Spill in Louisianaโs Bayou Lafourche Despite Sickening Fumes
Mapped: Inside Irelandโs Powerful Farming Lobby
In the chilled section of any major supermarket, from London to Lagos, youโre likely to find a taste of Ireland โ a stick of premium butter wrapped in gold or green packaging, celebrating a superior product from grass-fed pastures. But the gleaming image of Irelandโs agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the […]
How a British-owned PR Firm Helped โSquashโ Pipeline Protests in Uganda
By TJ Jordan Last November, a beaming group of staff from MetropolitanRepublic collected their gorilla-shaped trophy at the Silverback Awards, Ugandaโs top advertising and public relations gala. The South African PR agency had won its prize for promoting the โsustainable developmentโ of Ugandaโs untapped oil reserves by French oil company TotalEnergies. MetropolitanRepublic โ which is […]