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These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.

Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
ByJoe Fassler
on Dec 12, 2025 @ 02:00 PST
Series: Tech vs. Climate
Series: Tech vs Climate
A coal power plant sinks into the ocean and an orange outline of Donald Trump throws a life preserver with 0s and 1s in it to the power plant. Dark clouds sit on the horizon.

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As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps
Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
us/Battle Over Tariff Power Pits Trump Against Koch Network
Meet 5 PR Agencies Making Big Polluters Look 'Ag-tastic'

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The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
By Geoff Dembicki
onDec 11, 2025 @ 08:50 PST
Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda, Tech vs. Climate
Series: MAGA, Tech vs Climate

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.

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.
Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States
ByJoe Fassler
onDec 12, 2025 @ 12:55 PST

As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.

As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.
uk/The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
BySam Bright
onDec 10, 2025 @ 20:00 PST

“Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms.

“Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
uk/Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
ByAdam Barnett
onDec 10, 2025 @ 03:09 PST

The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.

The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.
Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda
Series: MAGA
Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education
ByEllen Ormesher
onDec 7, 2025 @ 06:01 PST

The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.

The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
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Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play
ByEmily Sanders
on Dec 7, 2025 @ 10:04 PST
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’
ByTaylor Noakes
on Dec 8, 2025 @ 04:00 PST
The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”
The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing 'Misleading' Claims
ByLaura Villadiego
on Nov 25, 2025 @ 22:00 PST
The programme is “yet another bung to industrial production”, experts say.
The programme is “yet another bung to industrial production”, experts say.
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‘Utterly Abusive’: First Nations United Against Mark Carney’s Alberta Pipeline Plans
ByMitch Anderson
on Dec 2, 2025 @ 07:48 PST
By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
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Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
us/These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
us/MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups
uk/Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
uk/The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch

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Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda

How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.
Graphic illustration showing orange outline of President Trump at a cabinet meeting around an oval table with black outlines of people seated, and two-thirds of the table covered in white with the logo Project 2025.
Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the ‘Weaponized Abuse’ of Authoritarianism
Understanding how autocrats and oligarchs capture and consolidate state power.
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.

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Alex Epstein Credentials B.A., Philosophy, Duke University (2002).“Alex Epstein,” The Ayn Rand Institute. Archived August 25, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gp67J “Speak...
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Background The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization designed to link state legislators with corporations and create te...
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