Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 million to the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can reveal. Electoral Commis...

Companies with a history of environmental abuses and alleged labour violations, backed by private equity and with ties to foreign governments, stand to profit from North Sea oil and gas, new data...

Federal tax data reveals the Canadian journalist spent 10 years at the Aurea Foundation, a top funder of think tanks that argue the climate crisis isn’t real.

The influential Conservative-linked Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has been pushing for further North Sea oil and gas drilling while several of its board members hold financial interests in the...

(Picture: @JuliaHB1 on Twitter) Julia Hartley-Brewer Credentials Background Julia Hartley-Brewer is a British journalist, broadcaster and radio presenter. She hosts the weekday breakfast show on...

It is fitting, then, that the mammoth document – which forms the working group one (WG1) section of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6) – includes a dedicated chapter on weather extremes for the...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report

Today, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Matthew G. Whitaker, who served as chief of staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, would replace his boss. Sessions was forced from office a...

The record-breaking UK heatwave of 18-19 July 2022 was made “at least 10 times more likely” by human-caused climate change, a new “rapid-attribution” study finds.

According to the International Association of Business Communicators Canada, Krause was slated to deliver a presentation at a professional development event Monday morning on her work researching the...

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. A new analysis by this website...

Andrew Wheeler Credentials Background Andrew R. Wheeler, a lawyer and former coal industry lobbyist, is the 15th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was...

William Happer Credentials  Ph.D, physics, Princeton (1964). Bachelor’s degree in physics from University of North Carolina (1960). Background William Happer is the emeritus Eugene Higgens professor...

Michael Mann wins defamation trial against climate deniers

A network of climate science deniers has been accused of “hijacking” rural concerns over a new social media campaign “to save the farming industry”.  ‘No Farmers, No Food’ has gained over 50,000...

Anti-climate politicians, media and think tanks are pumping out false and misleading arguments which erode public support for climate action.  This misinformation is being pumped out when, as UN...

The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in...

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal.  Neil Record, a millionaire Tory donor...

By Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. What’s the future of coal? The answer may be blowing in the wind. Or running through our waters. Or, maybe it’s at the end of...

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance...

By Steve Horn and Curtis Waltman, MuckRock Behind the scenes, as law enforcement officials tried to stem protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, alumni from the George W. Bush White House were...

2018 was the year the oil and gas industry promised that its darling, the shale fracking revolution, would stop focusing on endless production and instead turn a profit for its investors. But as the...

Veteran broadcaster David Attenborough has expressed his disappointment at the rise of climate science denial in the US and Australia and called on voters to respond. Noting the prevalence of climate...

Scott Pruitt, whose tenure at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was tarred by corruption scandals and hostility to environmental regulation, offered his resignation today, effective...

This morning, residents of Marshall County, West Virginia, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to a major natural gas rupture and explosion on TransCanada’s Leach XPress pipeline on Nixon Ridge — a quickly built...

The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in...

Mike Catanzaro, President Donald Trump’s recently minted top energy aide, has officially begun his first week on the job at the White House. He was hired to move policy measures through federal...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration Thursday in a case Earthjustice called "the clean water case of the century." ​The case concerned a Maui, Hawaii wastewater treatment...

The Conservative Party accepted £225,000 in donations from firms and individuals with financial interests in oil and gas during the first week of the general election campaign, DeSmog and Democracy...

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal....

The agriculture sector has spent millions of dollars on discrediting plant-based diets, a new report has claimed.  The report, published by the consumer advocacy organisation Freedom Food Alliance on...

Narrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981 film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar, wind, nuclear, and other sources of power to end...

“We understand how the oil and gas sector works — we’ve worked in it, studied it, defended it and impacted the policy that regulates it,” a 2015 presentation delivered to the Tennessee Oil and Gas...

In 2016, lower oil prices led to an overall drop in production for shale companies, which use horizontal drilling and fracking to extract oil and gas from shale formations such as the Marcellus and...

By Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University The Trump administration announced new pollution rules for coal-fired power plants designed to keep existing coal power plants operating more...

Speaking outside Downing Street on 23 May, announcing a general election for 4 July, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took a swipe at what he dubbed “environmental dogma”. It was a sign of how much has...

Labour’s landslide victory over the Conservatives has left the party’s anti-net zero wing in tatters.  DeSmog’s analysis of Westminster’s influential Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) found that two...

By Tim Profeta, Duke University “He was just doing his job.” When I asked a longtime staffer to Sen. John McCain why the senator battled to address climate change in the early 2000s, that was...

June outlook foretold New Jersey-sized area of low oxygen

In the chilled section of any major supermarket, from London to Lagos, you’re likely to find a taste of Ireland – a stick of premium butter wrapped in gold or green packaging, celebrating a superior...

When someone charges a cellphone or flips on the lights, what costs are felt by the far-off communities that produced the coal or gas powering that home? What happens to those same communities when a...

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donati...

Documents unearthed by DeSmog show the oil industry has spent decades studying how the planned carbon capture and storage projects could be harnessed to recover billions more barrels of North Sea...

Agriculture lobby groups have been in constant contact with a small group of influential European politicians, holding an average of over two meetings a week while the bloc negotiated flagship...

There’s a widely held belief that when it comes to human-caused climate change, you’re far less likely to accept the science if you lean toward the right of the political spectrum. But a new study...

ExxonMobil, Koch and Mercer family are past funders of critics of stay-at-home orders as fossil fuel industry struggles amid lockdowns

"I Can't Breathe" were George Floyd's dying words under a White police officer's knee. They eerily echo what Black, Latino, Native American and other non-White environmental justice activists have...

Methane first started leaking from Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility on October 23, two and a half months ago. More than 2,300 homes have been evacuated in nearby Porter...

Pennsylvania voters have become increasingly disillusioned with the fracking industry, with weak and declining support across all demographics, according to a new poll. By wide margins, voters in the...

In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) successfully lobbied for an end to the 40-year ban on exporting U.S.-produced crude oil in part by making a geopolitical argument: Iran and Russia have the...

“God didn’t put me on this earth to pimp death for profit.”

Cleveland released its latest plan to deal with climate change, which includes clean energy and transportation goals.

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups.  This appointm...

Two North Dakota gas processing plants in the heart of the Bakken oil fields have shown signs of an eroded safety culture and startling construction problems, according to Paul Lehto, a 54-year-old...

Despite promises of a “robust conversation” from the moderator, a panel discussion titled “Examining the Impact of Bill C-59” concluded that Canada’s efforts to clamp down on false advertising in the...