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COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
By Steve Horn
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This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration co...
us/The Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation
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By Amy Westervelt, Drilled News. Originally published by Drilled News. For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys...
uk/Climate Science Deniers Use Coronavirus to Downplay Environmental Threats
By Zak Derler
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Commentators known to spread disinformation on climate change are using the COVID-19 pandemic to downplay the threat of environmental crises and undermine action, DeSmog analysis has found. The Wo...
us/Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks
By Sharon Kelly
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On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes the disease COVID-19, was officially a “public health emergency of intern...
us/How Technology Can Combat the Rising Tide of Fake Science
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By Chris Impey, University of Arizona Science gets a lot of respect these days. Unfortunately, it’s also getting a lot of competition from misinformation. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits ...
us/Oil Industry Front Group Launches Latest Attack on Electric Vehicle Tax Credit in Senate Energy Bill
By Dana Drugmand
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us/‘Fossil Fuel Companies Knew’: Honolulu Files Lawsuit Over Climate Impacts
By Dana Drugmand
on
Hawaii has officially joined the fight to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate crisis. On Monday the City of Honolulu filed a lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies, seeking mon...
uk/Analysis: Tories Received £1.5m from Polluting Industries and Funders of Climate Denial Since General Election
By Richard Collett-White and Zak Derler
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The Conservative Party has received nearly £1.5 million of donations from polluting interests and funders of climate science denial in the past three months, DeSmog analysis shows. The gifts, publ...
us/New Documents Show How Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation into Federal Reports
By Sharon Kelly
on
A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded ...
us/Longtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses 'Scare Tactics' to Bash Transportation Climate Initiative for Koch-Tied Think Tank
By Dana Drugmand
on
Opponents of a regional proposal to curb transportation sector emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are using a number of deceptive tactics to attack and criticize the Transportation and Cli...

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COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
BySteve Horn
on

This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration co...
us/The Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation
ByGuest
on

By Amy Westervelt, Drilled News. Originally published by Drilled News. For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys...
uk/Climate Science Deniers Use Coronavirus to Downplay Environmental Threats
ByZak Derler
on

Commentators known to spread disinformation on climate change are using the COVID-19 pandemic to downplay the threat of environmental crises and undermine action, DeSmog analysis has found. The Wo...
us/Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks
BySharon Kelly
on

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes the disease COVID-19, was officially a “public health emergency of intern...
us/How Technology Can Combat the Rising Tide of Fake Science
ByGuest
on

By Chris Impey, University of Arizona Science gets a lot of respect these days. Unfortunately, it’s also getting a lot of competition from misinformation. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits ...
us/Oil Industry Front Group Launches Latest Attack on Electric Vehicle Tax Credit in Senate Energy Bill
ByDana Drugmand
on

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Series: Koch vs Clean
Series: Koch vs Clean
us/‘Fossil Fuel Companies Knew’: Honolulu Files Lawsuit Over Climate Impacts
ByDana Drugmand
on

Hawaii has officially joined the fight to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate crisis. On Monday the City of Honolulu filed a lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies, seeking mon...
Analysis
uk/Analysis: Tories Received £1.5m from Polluting Industries and Funders of Climate Denial Since General Election
ByRichard Collett-White and Zak Derler
on

The Conservative Party has received nearly £1.5 million of donations from polluting interests and funders of climate science denial in the past three months, DeSmog analysis shows. The gifts, publ...
us/New Documents Show How Trump Interior Official Pushed Climate Misinformation into Federal Reports
BySharon Kelly
on

A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department of Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded ...
us/Longtime Climate Science Foe David Schnare Uses 'Scare Tactics' to Bash Transportation Climate Initiative for Koch-Tied Think Tank
ByDana Drugmand
on

Opponents of a regional proposal to curb transportation sector emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are using a number of deceptive tactics to attack and criticize the Transportation and Cli...
Series: Koch vs Clean
Series: Koch vs Clean