Dana Drugmand

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Dana is an environmental journalist focusing on climate change and climate accountability reporting. She writes regularly for DeSmog covering topics such as fossil fuel industry opposition to climate action, climate change lawsuits, greenwashing and false climate solutions, and clean transportation.

onAug 6, 2020 @ 17:14 PDT

Fresh off the publication of hisย new bookย Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Michael Shellenberger โ€” a self-described Democrat and climate activist who nevertheless purports...
onAug 4, 2020 @ 12:52 PDT

More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
onJul 31, 2020 @ 07:25 PDT

The Supreme Court of Ireland has ruled in favour of an environmental group challenging the Irish governmentโ€™s climate plans, finding its policies did not meet legal requirements for detailing how t...
onJul 30, 2020 @ 13:35 PDT

Warning of an impending financial implosion driven largely by fossil fuel industry deception, a recent report calls on fossil fuel insiders and other potential whistleblowers to help expose and pro...
onJul 29, 2020 @ 15:19 PDT

Statements from large business associations and opponents of climate action are twice as likely to be included in climate change coverage by national newspapers than pro-climate action messaging, a...
onJul 22, 2020 @ 16:58 PDT

Just over a year ago,ย the city of Berkeley, California,ย passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry. This ...
onJul 17, 2020 @ 12:20 PDT

A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally โ€œtrampledโ€ on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landownersโ€™ permissio...
onJul 14, 2020 @ 16:18 PDT

Large business and industry associations representing the fossil fuel industryย welcomed a July 13 U.S.ย Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcementย that the agency would not beย strengthening ...
onJul 14, 2020 @ 06:00 PDT

โ€œRenewable natural gas,โ€ or RNG,ย is an alternative gasย fuelย that comesย from landfills,ย manure, or synthetic processes. That'sย opposed to theย fossil gas that drillers traditionally pump outย of under...
onJul 7, 2020 @ 13:47 PDT

During a congressional hearing Tuesday,ย a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrainย from theย industry: โ€œPlastic savesย lives.โ€ However,ย for many communities of color living in close proxi...