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“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March. The Heartland Institute is one of the world’s leading climate science denial groups. It has helped to draft Donald Trump’s anti-climate policies, which have seen the president […]

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Secret chemicals. A hush-hush atmosphere surrounding airborne pollution. Non-disclosure agreements preventing open discussion of industry impacts. Some of the same transparency issues that reared their heads during the early days of fracking a decade ago are making a resurgence at the state and local level across the U.S., this time with new twists under the current federal […]

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The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), the radical right-wing network fronted by Jordan Peterson, has accepted a large sum from a pharmaceutical executive whose firm was fined $47 million by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last year, DeSmog can reveal. A press release from QOL Medical on 18 April announced that its CEO Derick […]

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The Conservatives received a hefty sum from oil and gas investors and those with roles at anti-climate campaign groups during the period when the party rolled back a key climate commitment. New records released today reveal that Kemi Badenoch’s party accepted £50,000 in January from Neil Record, the chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm […]

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The fossil fuel industry is ramping up efforts to weaken a key EU policy aimed at tackling the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new report by research group InfluenceMap. Published today, the report highlights how oil and gas companies and lobby groups across the EU and U.S. are using a range of tactics […]

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“Decarbonized oil” is now apparently a thing. Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke glowingly about this mythical substance in the context of new bitumen pipelines after his meeting last week in Saskatoon with Canada’s premiers. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith chimed in her support for carbon-free unicorn oil as part of a new “grand bargain” where Ottawa […]

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A dual American citizen, a man from Arizona, and an Ontario law professor walk into a bar — well, actually, a casino conference room in Red Deer. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the punchline is this: they came to stage a separatist intervention in Alberta. The headliner to the event […]

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