Tens of Thousands March to the UN, Declaring a Climate Emergency
Climate activists marched in New York City on Sunday to demand that world leaders curb new oil and gas drilling. The March to End Fossil Fuels was the first major climate march since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It brought tens of thousands, young and old, from as far away as Alaska and the […]
California Joins States Suing Big Oil for Its Role in the Climate Crisis
The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate crisis. On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against five oil and gas majors including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, and ConocoPhillips […]
Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says
The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community […]
Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero
When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neglected area of global climate response. Armed with a seat at the highest levels of food policy, and well-connected – to […]
Satartia Poisoning ‘Was an Anomaly,’ Says Carbon Capture CEO
“I’m not saying don’t tell the truth, I’m saying it’s the level of truth that you give.” This was advice provided by James Millar, president and CEO of the International CCS Knowledge Centre, to an audience attending a panel discussion at a carbon capture conference held in Edmonton, Alberta on Wednesday. Millar spoke freely about […]
A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis
“I belong here,” I reminded myself, as I drove toward the checkpoint to gain entry to the groundbreaking event for the $2.9 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) project, which was about to begin. After holding up my press pass, I was allowed in, though I was not among the select media invited to the event by the state […]
Nearly 200 Environmentalists Were Murdered for Their Work in 2022
In early June of last year, Indigenous rights expert Bruno Pereira and Guardian journalist Dom Phillips set off together on a riverboat journey through Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigenous territory, to meet and speak with residents working to protect the area. They would not make it back alive. Pereira and Phillips were two of at least […]
American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference
With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company ADNOC, in charge of the conference. What few may realize, however, is that Al Jaber’s ascent to […]
The United States and Canada Are Among the World’s Top 5 ‘Planet Wreckers,’ New Fossil Fuel Report Contends
Just ahead of U.N. climate summit in New York City, analysis calls on governments to halt planned gas and oil projects
Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors
By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on social media of young activists from the German climate organization Letzte Generation (Last Generation) being assaulted by their fellow citizens as they obstructed streets in an effort to […]