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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
Recent Series

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