The Allegheny County Council voted to bar industrial development in county parks, in what some activists see as a “a crack in that myth of invulnerability” for the gas industry.

A climate scientist said the news that Samuele Furfari, a former EU energy advisor, had joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation showed the organisation was “clutching at straws to defend its fringe and unfounded views”.

The Macdonald Laurier Institute then bragged about pushing a massive tar sands expansion.

Fossil fuel companies have been quietly leveraging their wealth to manipulate climate research.

President Biden is in the kingdom this week to strengthen ties, consistent with ‘American values.’ Meanwhile, a US-Saudi joint venture on the Texas coast is pumping out toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases.

Advocates say that’s all the more reason to end customer-funded gas line expansion.

Despite the UN secretary-general’s calls to abandon oil and gas finance, fewer than 15 banks, insurers, and investors have created policies to limit support for the industry, according to a recently expanded tracker.

Media personality Dan McTeague also works to undermine climate action.

Nadhim Zahawi brings a long history of working with the sector into a key climate role in the British government.

Critics say the best argument for blue hydrogen is to “keep the fossil fuel industry in business.”