Honoluluโs Climate Suit Against Big Oil Advances Towards Trial
A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companiesโ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. Honolulu first sued 10 fossil fuel companies โ including BP, Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, and Aloha […]
New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a โFalse Solutionโ to the Plastics Crisis
The plastics and petrochemical industriesโ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis โ chemical or โadvancedโ recycling โ is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends.
GB News Ownerโs Hedge Fund Has $2.2 Billion Fossil Fuel Investments
One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal. This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was announced as a new presenter on the television broadcaster on Friday. An investigation by DeSmog in May […]
Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa
Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31.ย
Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam and Louisiana โ areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants โ have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.
Cabinet Ministers Set to Speak at GB News Linked Conference Alongside Climate Science Deniers
Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch are due to speak at a major event next week alongside leading critics of climate action, DeSmog can report. The three-day conference is being hosted in London by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which shares its directors with the startup broadcaster GB News. ARC was launched in March to address […]
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Told Equinor To โWork With Usโ On Oil and Gas Messaging
Cabinet ministers reassured โsmilingโ fossil fuel executives and offered tips on how to communicate their polluting activities to the general public months before the controversial Rosebank oilfield was approved, DeSmog can reveal. A new cache of documents, obtained via Freedom of Information request and largely unredacted, offer a rare insight into conversations held between senior […]
GOP Climate Denier Vivek Ramaswamy Headlining Jordan Peterson’s ARC Conference
A Republican presidential candidate who has referred to climate change as a โhoaxโ is headlining the inaugural event for a new global organization created by conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. Vivek Ramaswamy will be one of the marquee speakers at the inaugural meeting of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), also known as the ARC Conference, […]
LNG Plant Operators Change Their Tune on Carbon Capture
As Louisiana attempts to spew less climate-warming pollution, which disproportionately comes from industry, fossil-fuel companies have convinced lawmakers to jump onto the bandwagon of carbon capture and storage (CCS), a controversial and unprovenย method of addressing the issue.
A Judge Has Rejected Shell’s Latest Attempt to Dismiss a Connecticut Climate Lawsuit
A Connecticut judge last week rejected Shell’s latest attempt to quash a climate lawsuit accusing the company of disregarding the severe climate change-driven risks to its fuel and chemical depot on the east bank of New Haven Harbor. The ruling, coming about a year after the federal district court in Connecticut denied Shellโs motion to […]
Revealed: The Oil and Gas Lobbying Campaign to Water Down Windfall Tax
The UK governmentโs weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals.ย Trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), formerly Oil and Gas UK, and its operator members including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, and Equinor, met with ministers at least […]