Labour Candidate Maintains Ties to Climate Denial Group Despite ‘Conspiracy’ Claims
Labour candidate Graham Stringer has refused to say if he will quit the board of a climate denial group after its director used an event hosted by an oil-funded foundation to claim that net zero will lead to authoritarianism. Benny Peiser, the director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), claimed at an event on […]
Inside Big Oil’s Business as Usual: Failure on Climate and Profits from War
Oil majors are not on track to hit Paris Agreement climate targets that limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, a new report reveals. Eight fossil fuel giants – Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, BP, Eni, Equinor, and ConocoPhillips – are on course to use 30 percent of the world’s remaining carbon budget for that 1.5°C goal, […]
Fossil Fuel Advocate Wants ‘Complete Reset’ of Energy Policy After Trudeau
Asked what impacts new leadership in Canada and the US may have on the fossil fuel sector, one fossil fuel company president at the Global Energy Show in Calgary said he hoped for a total reset on environmental policy. Concerning the prospect of Trump and Poilievre both becoming their respective nations’ chief executives, Michael Binnion, […]
The Real Cowboys of Alberta Battle Zombie Coal Mine
Ranchers in southwest Alberta are contending with one of the worst droughts on record and a dwindling mountain snowpack. However, the latest threat to critical rivers near the Crowsnest Pass is being served up not by climate change but their own provincial government — in the form of a zombie coal mine proposal on the […]
Labour Ignores Coal Mine-Shaped Elephant in the Room
Labour has been urged to clarify its stance on the UK’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years – as it fights an election campaign that has put clean energy at the fore. The proposed mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, would extract 2.8 million tonnes of coking coal a year from under the Irish […]
Polluter Funded Reform Party Backs Oil and Gas Expansion in Manifesto
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which is funded by climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests, has launched its manifesto with a pledge to expand oil and gas exploration and open new coal mines. The document repeats the party’s policy to “scrap net zero”, the UK’s legally-binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It says Reform […]
Conservative Party Received 40 Percent of its Donations from Fossil Fuel Interests in First Week of Campaign
The Conservative Party accepted £225,000 in donations from firms and individuals with financial interests in oil and gas during the first week of the general election campaign, DeSmog and Democracy for Sale can reveal. Rishi Sunak’s party was given £575,000 from 30 May, when Parliament was dissolved, to 5 June, official figures show. This included […]
Revealed: Firm of Veteran Tory Advisor Is Behind ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Solar Ad Campaign
This investigation was published in partnership with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The anti-solar group Save our Shire has hired a PR firm run by Alex Crowley, a former Boris Johnson advisor who has previously helped manage fake grassroots political campaigns. The proposed Roundhill Solar Farm in Wychavon, Worcestershire, is one of a large number […]
‘Thumb on the Scale’: Big Oil Aims to Cash in on Hydrogen Tax Credits – with Natural Gas
At the Hydrogen Americas Summit, fossil fuel giants attempt to redefine “clean” hydrogen, with profits from tax incentives in mind.
There Is Something Wrong Under New Freeport
After a 2022 frack out, residents of New Freeport, PA, report rashes, and foul methane-spiked water. EQT denies responsibility, offering water for silence from residents.