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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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In late July, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a trucking facility in Indiana that the Trump administration would be moving to rescind the “endangerment finding,” an agency declaration which provides the legal foundation for many major U.S. climate regulations. Zeldin was joined at the press conference by U.S. Energy Secretary and […]

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Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare. The Trump administration is trying to eliminate it. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on July 29, that the EPA […]

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This article by Corporate Knights is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. In the fight against climate disinformation, the messengers – not just the message – are increasingly coming under fire. An international campaign spearheaded by the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), called Break the Fossil Influence – Fossil-Free […]

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The far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE), currently the third-largest group in the European Parliament, achieved a major victory in July. The group will lead negotiations on the EU’s 2040 climate target – a powerful role that will allow it to draft the Parliament’s position on the EU’s climate policies. This appointment signals a turning point. […]

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media bias, spent roughly 25 percent of its £5.5 million budget on adverts in the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Daily Express. These adverts were “clearly […]

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Shell’s LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., shipped its first tanker of Asian-bound liquefied natural gas last month, signaling the beginning of a liquefied natural gas boom in Canada. The prospect of a surge in fossil fuel exports that could turn the country into the world’s fifth biggest LNG exporter is being cheered on by […]

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This week, Italy’s highest court ruled that a climate lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon against Eni can move forward.  In the decision, released on Monday, the court rejected Italian oil and gas company Eni’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, and ordered that the case be heard on its merits […]

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Does production equal prosperity? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been throwing around some very optimistic what-if numbers in her relentless lobbying efforts to build ever-more oil pipelines. “If we had the Energy East, if we had Keystone XL, if we had Northern Gateway, we would be producing two and half million barrels a day more […]

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