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Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “agentic” or autonomous AI key roles in risky real-world operations like drilling for oil and keeping the nation’s power grids up and running. Amid the Trump administration’s push to promote AI development, oil and gas […]

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Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

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Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers withdrew planning application from the site near Whitehaven in April, after the High Court found that the planning approval for UK’s first deep coal mine […]

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James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event organised by an oil-funded think tank. Speaking at a festival hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Esztergom, Hungary last week, Orr accused politicians of failing to “reflect […]

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EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – just months before the start of the latest UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. The latest round, running […]

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This article was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. At Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, men, women and children scramble over vast mountains of trash — each waste picker hoping to unearth anything they can sell.  Scavenging silently among them, marabou storks — some nearly five feet tall — wage their own daily contest for survival. A […]

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Reform UK is offering access to Nigel Farage at its party conference for sums ranging from £25,000 to a quarter of a million pounds. The right-wing populist party is advertising for companies to attend “an intimate champagne breakfast with Nigel Farage” at its two-day conference at the Birmingham NEC next month, according to its commercial brochure. […]

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This work was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism With international treaty negotiations aimed at addressing the plastic pollution crisis resuming in Switzerland this week, a new document reveals that one of the world’s largest plastic producers, DuPont, acknowledged as early as 1974 that recycling its plastic products was not possible.  This […]

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One of the architects of the debunked “foreign-funded anti-pipeline protester” controversy is now representing a journalist claiming he was forced to resign from CBC News. Former CBC News host Travis Dhanraj has retained lawyer Kathryn Marshall, noted spokesperson for the Ethical Oil Institute, as his counsel. Dhanraj’s public break with CBC has added fuel to […]

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Claim to be verified: BlackRock offers its global clients sustainable investment products, which allegedly exclude fossil fuels. Context: In the first quarter of 2025 only, the world’s largest asset manager invested US$3 billion in fossil-fuel companies through its funds defined as sustainable. BlackRock promotes them with language that is potentially misleading and likely to leave […]

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This week, the EU agreed to 15% tariffs with the United States, half of President Donald Trump’s threatened rate, before the August 1 deadline. With Mexico and Brazil trade deals on the horizon, Trump appears to have the world’s pocketbooks, supply chains, and eyeballs precisely where he wants them: in a state of uncertainty, and […]

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