On March 31, President Joe Biden unveiled the blueprint for a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package, which would include enormous investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and public...
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In the U.S., several cities and states are moving to phase out direct use of fossil gas in...
7 Oct, 2020
Courts are emerging as a new battleground in the climate change fight. From cases over public...
25 Sep, 2020
The podcast Drilled investigates the propaganda campaign of the century — the creation of climate ...
7 Aug, 2020
The climate science denial machine created by the fossil fuel industry is now a major source of...
22 Apr, 2020
The Permian Basin is the largest petroleum-producing basin in the United States, and the U.S. oil...
17 Apr, 2020
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Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, took a very different path from Exxon in the U.S...
3 Dec, 2019
On 19 November 2009, an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from the University of East...
15 Nov, 2019
Extinction Rebellion and the global school strikes led by Greta Thunberg have ensured climate...
29 Aug, 2019
The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — a fossil-fuel backed industry group launched in 1989 as a...
24 Apr, 2019
Extinction Rebellion is a campaign group demanding governments take urgent action on climate change...
15 Apr, 2019
Since 2011, Cuadrilla has been trying to frack Lancashire. The company is at the vanguard of an...
8 Apr, 2019
As a society in the developed world — and even as a species — we've told ourselves a series of...
30 Oct, 2018
Fracking continues to open up a huge supply of oil and gas in America, and investors are looking to...
28 Oct, 2018
The UK government likes to boast about its credentials as a global climate leader. But a special...
8 May, 2018
Since 2007, the oil and gas industry has lost $280 billion betting on the shale boom, which has...
18 Apr, 2018
Big oil company Shell knew climate change was going to be big, was going to be bad, and that its...
11 Apr, 2018
In this investigative series, DeSmog scrutinizes the ways in which climate science deniers have...
15 Mar, 2018
DeSmog UK’s Climate Disinformation Database, launched in December 2017, is an extensive research...
11 Dec, 2017
Cuadrilla Resources first attempted to frack in Lancashire in 2011, but tremors from its work led...
22 Nov, 2017
The Koch brothers and their fossil fuel industry allies are ramping up their attacks on clean...
22 Jul, 2017
Climate science denial is pervasive and the constellation of individuals and organizations...
6 Jul, 2017
More than 100 petrochemical facilities line a stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans...
27 Jun, 2017
At the far end of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners is proposing...
14 Feb, 2017
The success of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) created an oil boom from fields in North Dakota's...
27 Sep, 2016
On 6 February 2016, Matthew Hancock, Conservative Minister for the Cabinet Office, announced that a...
19 Apr, 2016
ExxonMobil has a long history of funding climate denial. In September 2015, it was revealed that...
5 Feb, 2016
Amber Rudd was appointed Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)...
18 Nov, 2015
Pope Francis released on July 18, 2015 an unprecedented encyclical on climate change and the...
28 Aug, 2015
In July 2015, DeSmog UK broke the story that Koch Industries, the largest privately owned energy...
9 Jul, 2015
The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework...
2 Jun, 2015
David Cameron’s Conservative Party won a surprise majority government during the May 2015 UK...
2 Jun, 2015
Matt Ridley is a powerhouse of climate science denial in Britain. The self-styled 'Rational...
17 Mar, 2015
The Tate was forced to release its sponsorship arrangements with oil giant BP on 26 January 2015....
12 Mar, 2015
In August 2014, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) released a heavily...
12 Mar, 2015
The UK Infrastructure Act was passed on February 12, 2015 by David Cameron's coalition-government...
12 Mar, 2015
