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The Elections that Turned Climate into a Defining Political Fault Line

Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.
Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.
ByRupert Read
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uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
uk/Revealed: British Ad Giant’s Billion-Dollar Greenwash of U.S. Oil Industry
Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds
uk/'Mad Men Fuelling the Madness': Meet the Advertising CEOs Boosting Big Oil

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In Louisiana, Data Center Hype Faces AI Regulation and Community Resistance
By Ned Randolph
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With Meta's new Manhattan-sized project slated for the state, lawmakers are pushing new restrictions on artificial intelligence even as the Trump administration threatens to withhold broadband funding in response.

With Meta's new Manhattan-sized project slated for the state, lawmakers are pushing new restrictions on artificial intelligence even as the Trump administration threatens to withhold broadband funding in response.
us/Event | How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office
ByDeSmog
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Join a May 7 discussion on how the Trump administration’s open embrace of climate denial in Washington is enabling more denial at the highest levels of government in the U.S. and beyond.

Join a May 7 discussion on how the Trump administration’s open embrace of climate denial in Washington is enabling more denial at the highest levels of government in the U.S. and beyond.
Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
ByRei Takver
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A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.

A couple days later, the Trump-linked group hosted EPA chief — and potential attorney general — Lee Zeldin at a Washington, D.C. event.
Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda
Series: MAGA
Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres
ByRei Takver
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Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels.

Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels.
Series: Tech vs. Climate
Series: Tech vs Climate
Analysis
Danielle Smith Is Betraying Rural Alberta To Build Gas-Powered Data Centres
ByMitch Anderson
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The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.

The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.
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Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’
ByMitch Anderson
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Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?
Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?
uk/Nigel Farage Has Accepted £2 Million Since Becoming an MP
BySam Bright
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The Green Party has accused Farage of being “focused on personal gain and public division”.
The Green Party has accused Farage of being “focused on personal gain and public division”.
Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds
ByClare Carlile, Pol Pareja and Alina Mihai
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Campaigners say the CAP system favours large landowners and is “fuelling autocratic regimes”.
Campaigners say the CAP system favours large landowners and is “fuelling autocratic regimes”.
How Canada’s LNG Push is Benefiting Trump and Shortchanging Indigenous People
ByTaylor Noakes
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A Q&A with Kai Nagata, a campaigner and researcher who works with Indigenous communities on the front-lines of resisting MAGA-backed oil and gas expansion.
A Q&A with Kai Nagata, a campaigner and researcher who works with Indigenous communities on the front-lines of resisting MAGA-backed oil and gas expansion.
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uk/Comment: 10 Years on from Deepwater Horizon, Coronavirus Shows Continued Need for a Just Transition Away from Big Oil
uk/Who Funds Reform? Nigel Farage’s Party Received 92 Percent of its Donations from Fossil Fuel Interests, Polluters, and Climate Deniers
Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds
uk/Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions
uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres

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Tech vs. Climate

Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.
AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

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Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)
Background The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is a think tank based in Budapest. It is Hungary’s largest private educational institution. It is closely affiliated with Viktor Orbán’s governme...
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Credentials  BA Classics, University of Oxford.“Dr James Orr,” Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, accessed 08.01.2025. Archived December 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vH...
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