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Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham Stringer – who has been the MP for Blackley, Manchester since 1997 – has been cosying up to individuals and groups involved in spreading radical anti-migrant, anti-abortion, anti-climate views. […]

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During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds.  The report comes as the Trump administration has moved to accelerate the approval of new export terminals […]

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“I miss recess,” said Asher, a Grade 5 student when asked for comment by CityNews on the Alberta’s teachers strike, adding that he even missed math class. “It’s fun. I get to learn more skills.” Adults are supposed to ensure students like Asher have an opportunity to learn, that teachers are properly paid and that […]

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Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials – declaring that it would scrap the UK’s net zero emissions targets and repeal the flagship Climate Change Act. As DeSmog has reported previously, this dramatic change has coincided with the party coming under […]

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This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in B.C.  At a right-wing political conference in Calgary, Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe spoke on a panel about the need to extinguish Indigenous rights as a part of a push to separate Alberta […]

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Introduction: the story so far I’m delighted to be writing today as the co-author of a new report called ‘We need to talk about adaptation’. This report is co-produced by the Climate Majority Project and the Glacier Trust (a leading adaptation-action NGO, mainly active in the global South). What we did together is investigate how much […]

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In a first-of-its-kind judgment under EU consumer law, a Paris civil court last week ruled that parts of a 2021 rebrand by the French oil giant TotalEnergies misled consumers with claims that it could be a carbon-neutral company by mid-century, even though it has continued to make its main business oil and gas. While none of […]

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Major Canadian environmental organizations, as well as an assortment of civil society organizations with considerable stakes in the fight against climate change, are using the services of lobbyists who also represent some of Canada’s biggest polluters. This, according to a groundbreaking new report published by FMinus, an American accountability monitor that tracks lobby groups that […]

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