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High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its fourth anniversary event on 16 November, which featured prominent Reform councillor Laila Cunningham, and former Brexit Party politician Alexandra Phillips. Together, which also […]

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Koch Inc., the nation’s number two privately owned firm, imported more than a billion barrels of crude oil into the United States over the past decade, according to DeSmog’s review of company-reported federal energy data. Those lucrative oil imports helped build the Koch empire now fighting before the Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Over 90 […]

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This investigative work had been supported by the Centre for Investigative Journalism The European Parliament voted on Thursday (13 November) to significantly dilute key elements of Europe’s climate agenda. Lawmakers took aim at the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires large firms to look beyond financial metrics and disclose their sustainability and human rights […]

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Top American oil and gas producers are using trade groups to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit in the absence of an official U.S. delegation, DeSmog can report. ExxonMobil and Chevron — which are among the fossil fuel industry’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters — have sent a combined total of 13 executives to the talks, while both companies have either sponsored events or […]

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Lobbyists and representatives of Canada’s oil and gas industry are part of Canada’s official delegation to this year’s U.N. climate talks in Brazil, in keeping with the high number of fossil fuel representatives in attendance at the summit.  About a dozen individuals representing fossil fuel interests were part of the 240-person Canadian delegation, according to […]

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