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Colorado Gave $1.3 Billion Carve-out to Oil Companies While Thousands of Dirty Sites Await Cleanup

The state’s reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
The state’s reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
ByJoe Fassler
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A collage of images with a neighborhood platte next to an oil pumpjack, center, oil jumpjacks drilling oil, bottom, shut-in oil well valve, overlaid on orange blocks with darker orange dots representing unreclaimed oil and gas sites. Oxy, Civitas, Chevron, and Colorado's Energy and Carbon Management Commission logos overlaid.

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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
In Louisiana, Data Center Hype Faces AI Regulation and Community Resistance
Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’
Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres

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TikTok’s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
By Rei Takver
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Series: Tech vs. Climate
Series: Tech vs Climate

By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation.

By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has “abandoned” its commitments to combat climate misinformation.
Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
ByMarta Kasztelan, Adam Barnett and Sam Bright
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Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.

Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Event | Off the Record: How to Talk to Journalists, Lawyers, and Activist Organizations
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Join a May 19 discussion on how advertising and PR professionals can help journalists hold the industry to account, featuring DeSmog investigative reporters.

Join a May 19 discussion on how advertising and PR professionals can help journalists hold the industry to account, featuring DeSmog investigative reporters.
us/Event | How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office
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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.
Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
ByClare Carlile
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Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’.

Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’.
Series: Shining a Light on Big Ag’s Climate Push
Series: Big Ag's Climate Push
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Industry-Linked Studies Disproportionately Advocate Meat Consumption
ByClare Carlile
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Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has “corrosive effects on public health debates”.
Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has “corrosive effects on public health debates”.
'Be a PleniDude’: How an Italian Oil Giant Conquered TikTok
ByNina Tea Zibetti and Stefano Cisternino
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Aspiring influencers share pro-industry climate messaging after attending six-week content creation bootcamp.
Aspiring influencers share pro-industry climate messaging after attending six-week content creation bootcamp.
Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers
BySharon Kelly
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The Heartland Institute used the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2025 annual meeting to spread climate disinformation and tout coal to power AI.
The Heartland Institute used the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2025 annual meeting to spread climate disinformation and tout coal to power AI.
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Q & A: The Climate Crisis as a Crisis of Modern Men
ByMatthew Green
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Indra Andan, founder of The Alternative Global, says new forms of masculinity are emerging to challenge the patriarchal models at the root of the ecological crisis.
Indra Andan, founder of The Alternative Global, says new forms of masculinity are emerging to challenge the patriarchal models at the root of the ecological crisis.
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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
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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.
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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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