Canada Will Spend $300 Million on Hydrogen Export to Germany
A Canadian environmental group is raising the alarm on new federal government spending on Canada’s hydrogen sector, calling it a waste of taxpayers’ money and a false solution to the climate crisis. Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced Canada will provide $300 million CAD to support a hydrogen export arrangement with Germany, which would match […]
Kemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group
Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Neil Record, a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). […]
BLM to Protect ND Drinking Water, Yet Continues Oil Leasing Under Missouri River
In a contradictory move, the Bureau touts an end to oil leasing for ND public water sources at same time as auctioning an oil lease under the Missouri, a water source for millions.
Revealed: Shell Oil Nonprofit Donated to Anti-Climate Groups Behind Project 2025
A U.S. foundation associated with oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal. Fourteen of those groups are on the advisory board of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint proposing radical changes to the federal government, including severely limiting the Environmental […]
Net Zero Scrutiny Group Chair Urged Not to Resurrect ‘Failed’ Project
Campaigners and politicians have warned a former Conservative MP against reviving an anti-net zero group which is allied to climate science denial. Craig Mackinlay stepped down as MP for South Thanet before the general election after contracting sepsis in September. Tributes were paid in Parliament to Mackinlay’s personal courage in May after the illness required […]
UK Regulator Weighs Greenwashing Allegations Against Latest Shell Ads
Britain’s advertising regulator is assessing complaints that a television advertisement for oil major Shell gives a misleading impression of the company’s commitment to clean energy. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had received 25 complaints about the ad, which was created on behalf of Shell by the media company VML, according to DeSmog research. […]
Project 2025: Tory Candidates Have Ties to Group Drafting ‘Dangerous’ Trump Agenda
Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel, and several other senior Conservative figures have close connections to a U.S. think tank that has authored a radical right-wing, anti-climate agenda for a future Donald Trump administration. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is considered so extreme that Trump has tried to distance himself from the manifesto, calling it “ridiculous and […]
6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.
Piñon Dark Horse Fire Reveals How Oil Industry Environmental ‘Solution’ Spurs Climate Crisis
Piñon’s carbon capture project explosion in New Mexico shows how taxpayers can end up paying huge subsidies to CCS operations that drive far more climate-altering pollution than they prevent.
Meta and Koch Industries to Sponsor Event Featuring Climate Denier Barry Cooper
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called climate change “one of the most urgent challenges of our time” and pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fight it. Yet his company Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is listed as a “gold sponsor” for an event in Alberta next month featuring Barry Cooper, a […]