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This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in BC.  A controversial report published this summer by the U.S. Department of Energy that alleges humans may not be the primary cause of climate change is being cited by the Donald Trump administration to abolish regulations on the […]

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in the region, recently met with Egdon Resources – an oil and gas firm owned by Texas-based Heyco Energy – which claims […]

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At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarmism”. The article – by “Kathleen Westbrook M.Sc Climate Science” – cited a finding from the “Global Climate Research Institute” that “65 percent of surveyed climate professionals […]

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will speak next week alongside the authors of Donald Trump’s plans to “dismantle the administrative state” and scrap climate policies.  Farage is a featured speaker at the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Washington DC – at least his tenth visit to the U.S. since being elected as an MP. As […]

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The Financial Times published a story based on the material uncovered by this investigation. The global advertising giant Interpublic Group (IPG) is facing allegations by staff that its rebrand of the world’s largest oil company violated a pledge to avoid work that could worsen the climate crisis. Documents obtained by DeSmog show that a group […]

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Advertising firms are increasingly shy about their work for the fossil fuel industry. But now, thanks to insider sources and documents from global communications holding company Interpublic Group (IPG), DeSmog can reveal the team of ad, PR, and lobbying agencies that help shape the image of Saudi Aramco — the world’s biggest oil company. Credit: […]

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TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report.  The channel, which attracts nearly half a million listeners a week, consistently hosted anti-climate, pro-fossil fuel voices throughout July. The Met Office said it was “virtually certain” that human influence had increased the occurrence and intensity of the extreme heat. […]

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Commissioners in a Georgia county unanimously decided to delay a vote on contentious new rules governing massive data center projects, during a meeting that drew an unusual overflow crowd. Dozens of local residents packed the Commissioner Chambers in Newnan, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, with more standing outside. Many wore red to show their unified opposition […]

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Labour’s new data access law would allow the UK government to replicate an Elon Musk-style DOGE data-grab, experts and campaigners have warned. They believe the new law is “ripe for abuse” and could be weaponised by a future Reform UK administration to further its anti-climate, anti-asylum, anti-government agenda. The Data (Use and Access) Act, which […]

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Members of Parliament have rebuked a Donald Trump advisor for spreading misleading claims about the UK’s climate policies. Professor Steve Koonin, a former chief scientist at oil giant BP who has long claimed climate science is “unsettled”, appeared on GB News on Friday to declare that the UK public is being “deliberately ill-informed” about the […]

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This article is being co-published with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. Click here to get The Lever’s free newsletter. At a recent artificial intelligence conference in Washington, D.C., Google’s president cheered on Trump’s interior secretary after he slammed Silicon Valley’s support of the so-called “climate extremist agenda” and pushed to expand the use of “incredibly clean” […]

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County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. If passed, the latest draft of the laws will ease requirements for “Project Sail” — a proposed data center in a rural area of Coweta County, 40 miles southwest of Atlanta — relative […]

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