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There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda that has already changed our world and will continue shaping it for years […]

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Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate deniers, DeSmog can reveal. The C3 Energy Summit on “American Leadership in Energy Innovation,” which took place in Washington, D.C., this week, featured sponsors and speakers from across the world of oil and gas, […]

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Several Gulf Coast LNG and utility executives dismissed the importance of sustainability for LNG projects at the Reuters Energy LIVE 2025 conference in Houston, Texas, last week. “So, at the end of the day, all the sustainability stuff, I’m not going to belittle it too much,” Vivek Chandra, CEO of Gulfstream LNG told attendees. “I’ll […]

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Several Canadian media outlets gave prominent coverage in December to a new report arguing that exporting massive amounts of natural gas from British Columbia to Asia will be good for the global fight against climate change. But stories in Canada’s national newspaper of record, The Globe & Mail, as well as an influential conservative outlet […]

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Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell, and Aramco, as well as […]

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? The reality is that U.S. capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and that American ownership of the Canadian oil resources is increasing. Recent reporting from Oilprice.com shows that U.S. equity owns […]

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The world’s largest salmon producer stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “noisy” and “polluting” fish farms. Seafood giant Mowi produces more than a fifth of the world’s farmed salmon and is the market leader in Scotland, where it farms a third of the country’s salmon and made […]

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On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, has […]

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Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new report. And now, with the Trump administration pushing for even deeper cuts at the agency in 2026, many states across the country may be in a dire position. “If EPA’s capacity to do […]

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A version of this story also appeared on Inside EPA. Since the second Trump administration took power in January, at least 15 coal plants have had planned retirements pushed back or delayed indefinitely, a DeSmog analysis found.  That’s mostly due to an expected rise in electricity demand, a surge largely driven by the rise of […]

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A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to a branch of the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence. “To seize the moment and ensure that AI can meet its true promise and potential,” it argued in March to the National Coordination Office, a federal body tasked […]

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