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2 days ago · The pro-Trump Heartland Institute claims it spearheaded opposition to a flagship European nature law. The pro-Trump Heartland Institute claims it spearheaded opposition to a flagship European nature law. Regulators have clearly demonstrated they are prioritizing continued oil production over public ...
Alberta’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Strategy Doesn’t Apply to ...
2 days ago · “Alberta is taking a zero-tolerance approach to crime,” bragged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2023 on social media after her government announced more enforcement, greater emphasis on public safety, and limited discretion of prosecutors to let offenders off the hook. “There is an increasing sense that the system is not holding criminals properly accountable and letting the public ...
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
4 days ago · The Tories and the U.S. Right. In the days after Trump’s election last November, Badenoch flew to Washington DC to meet with senior U.S. Republicans.. The Tory leader had an hour-long dinner with vice president elect JD Vance, who has a long record of casting doubt on climate change.In 2021, Vance said he was “skeptical of the idea that climate change is caused purely by man”, and last ...
The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum - DeSmog
2 days ago · This piece is about what we talk about when we talk about ‘climate change.’ Mostly, whether in the campaigning world or the policy world, the tech world or the business world, the everyday world or the world of international summitry, we mainly talk about cutting carbon emissions. And if we talk about impacts, we talk […]
Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon …
Jan 14, 2025 · Expansion Plans. Equinor is positioning itself to play a key role in the European Union’s plans to massively increase carbon capture. The bloc has adopted an official target to deploy an annual 50 million tonnes of CO2 storage capacity by 2030 from roughly three million tonnes available across the continent today, though the pace of the existing roll-out is nowhere near on track to achieve ...
New Study Shows How Fossil Fuel Sectors Create a Climate Denial …
Jan 15, 2025 · From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS Climate concludes.. The study found that all of the organizations ...
Ashley Braun, Author at DeSmog
Ashley Braun is Senior Editor of DeSmog. She is also an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist, and a contributing science writer for Natural History Magazine.Her work has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Slate, Science, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, Hakai Magazine, and Medium.She also fact-checks for …
DeSmog and Pocket Project Team Up to Host Climate …
Oct 31, 2024 · To read a previous DeSmog story on the relationship between the climate crisis and collective trauma healing, please click here.. As the COP29 climate talks get underway in Azerbaijan next month, DeSmog will partner with the Pocket Project to bring together leading climate justice advocates and trauma specialists to explore the psychological barriers to effective action — and how they can be ...
Databases - DeSmog
In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.
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DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change. Our team quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. DeSmog continues to expand our focus to other areas where misinformation has eroded public understanding and […]