Godfrey Bloom
Godfrey Bloom Credentials Background Godfrey Bloom is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber, representing the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) between 2004 and 2013. He continued to sit as an independent for the remainder of his term, ending in May 2014.1โGodfrey Bloom quits as UKIP MEP after ‘sluts’ […]
Francis Egan
Francis Egan Credentials Background Francis Egan is the chief executive of UK fracking (hydraulic fracturing) company, Cuadrilla Resources, appointed in 2012. He has spent more than three decades working in the oil and gas industry, having managed the global production division of […]
Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG)
The Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) Background The Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) is a lobby organisation that โcampaigns for secure industrial energy supplies at internationally competitive pricesโ, according to its website. Its members are trade associations representing the UKโs most energy intensive and polluting industries. The EIUG argues that climate policies harm the economic competitiveness […]
Edward Atkin
Edward Atkin Credentials Background Edward Atkin is a philanthropist and businessman who sits on the board of directors of the campaign wing of the UK climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) โ the Global Warming Policy Forum.1โPhilanthropists recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours,โ Philanthropy Impact, June 20, 2011. Archived December 7, 2018. […]
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Democratic Unionist Party Background The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a socially conservative, protestant political party in Northern Ireland. It currently holds the most seats of any party in Northern Irelandโs national assembly. It has blocked efforts to pass a Climate Change Act in Northern Ireland, as well as having a history of supporting creationism and blocking legislation on […]
David Herro
David Herro Credentials Background David Herro is a US stockbroker and investment chief at Harris Associates. A Republican donor, Herro told the Financial Times in 2015 that he was a funder of the UK climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).1โDavid G. Herro, CFA,โ Harris Associates. Archived January 9, 2018. Archive.fo URL: […]
David Davies
David Davies Credentials Background David Davies was a Conservative MP for Monmouth in South Wales, who failed to win reelection in the July 2024 general election. Prior to the government signing the Paris Agreement, […]
Sam Kazman
Sam Kazman Credentials Background Sam Kazman is general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a corporate and fossil-fuel-funded free-market think tank. CEI is behind such groups as the Cooler Heads Coalition and โSafeChemicalPolicy.org,โ the former which promotes the idea that climate change is a myth, while the latter is a group that promotes โthe […]
Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan Credentials Background Daniel Hannan was the Conservative MEP for South East England from 1999 until the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in January 2020. Hannan is known for his hardline anti-EU views, having helped found both the European Research Group of Eurosceptic […]
Bryan Bateman
Bryan Bateman Credentials Background Bryan Bateman is an environmental consultant, working most notably with the Confederation of Paper Industries, having formerly served as its Director of Business and the Environment, when it was known as the Paper Federation of Great Britain. 2Brendan […]
