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In a massive blow to the handful of scientists and academics who still dispute widely-accepted climate science, the Trump administration discarded a signature report by its own “Climate Working Group.” It comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially scrapped the government’s  endangerment finding — the official recognition that greenhouse gases harm human health and the environment. In an […]

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Has the fossil fuel industry been engaged in a decades-long illicit conspiracy to kneecap the accelerating transition to clean energy? The government of Michigan thinks so. State Attorney General Dana Nessel recently filed a 126-page lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute and four of the biggest oil companies, Exxon, BP, Chevron and Shell, alleging they […]

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The BBC has been slammed for allowing a pro-Trump figure to express climate science denial on one of its flagship programmes. This morning (13 February), the Today programme gave a platform to Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Trump advisor and staff member at the Heritage Foundation. On the show, which has a listenership of 5.6 million […]

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Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and former University of Kent professor, is standing for Parliament on 26 February, presenting himself as a champion of ordinary people against “the elites”. However, […]

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This story is published in partnership with Rolling Stone. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century casts serious doubt on the safety of the oil and gas industry’s most common method for disposing of its annual trillion gallons of toxic wastewater: injecting it deep underground.  Despite knowing by the early 1970s that […]

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In a speech to UK advertising executives last week, Lord Ed Vaizey had nothing good to say about a new ban on junk food ads aimed at children. Nor did the Conservative peer mention a petition signed by more than 110,000 people calling on parliament to impose a tobacco-style ban on ads for fossil fuels.   Instead, Vaizey […]

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Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Times, the U.S. State Department plans to bankroll think tanks and charities in the UK and Europe which share President Trump’s agenda, with particular focus […]

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The Trump administration just employed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act to discourage coal plant closures in Colorado — repurposing measures initially intended to safeguard public health and prevent pollution to reboot the dirtiest, deadliest fossil fuel.  Michael Hiatt, deputy managing attorney at the environmental legal nonprofit Earthjustice, told DeSmog that the EPA’s […]

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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing — and profiting from — U.S. President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel and AI development agenda, DeSmog has learned. The CPPIB has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. since Trump’s return to office. It has partnered with private equity firms to acquire American oil and gas producers, and financed […]

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BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European Parliament earlier this week. The meeting in Brussels comes amid reports that the U.S. State Department is poised to fund MAGA-aligned think tanks and charities […]

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In the wildest dreams of tech billionaires, humans colonize the solar system on giant space stations, dodge mortality by uploading their brains into computers, and solve climate change in a single swoop of god-like AI-generated genius. It’s a hubris that has led Big Tech companies, which until recently were seen as corporate climate leaders with ambitious clean […]

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If an election were held in the UK tomorrow, hardcore climate denier Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would likely win as the party is surging in the polls. This outcome – almost unimaginable just a few years ago – can trace its roots back to another once-fringe movement based in Alberta.  Preston Manning, founder of the […]

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