Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
41m By Alex ParkWith its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. But as major American fast food brands, like KFC, expand into so-called “frontier markets,” taxpayer-funded…Pathways Alliance Paid Google to Advertise on ‘Greenwashing’ Searches
Thu 4:22pm By Geoff DembickiA major Canadian oil sands group has been running advertisements on Google that target people seeking information about oil industry “greenwashing,” the practice by which companies make false and misleading environmental promises. The Pathways Alliance…Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit
Thu 11:43am By Adam BarnettThe new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss, who is the Conservative MP…‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group
Tue 12:27pm By Sam BrightA gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal. The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in controversy after the mayor of Brussels ordered police to…MPs Challenged to Cut Ties with Polluters
Mon 11:30am By Phoebe CookeA new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner…Reform’s National Organiser Claimed Tommy Robinson Had Been ‘Persecuted’
Sat 5:41pm By Sam BrightOne of Reform UK’s senior officials publicly defended far-right figure Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (also known as Tommy Robinson), DeSmog can reveal. The party is standing by Noel Matthews, who is running as Reform’s parliamentary candidate for North West…Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investor
Apr 12, 2024, 8:15 am By Adam Barnett and Sam BrightA Conservative peer who is expected to join the board of broadcaster GB News has shares in Equinor, the oil and gas multinational behind the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. According to his parliamentary register of interests, Lord Theodore Agnew has…EPA’s New Rule Aims to Cut Toxic Emissions, but Cancer Alley Air Pollution Could Worsen
Apr 10, 2024, 6:35 pm By Julie DermanskyLeaders in the fight for clean air from Louisiana’s Cancer Alley joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator Michael Regan on April 9 in Washington, D.C., for the announcement of a new rule governing air toxics-spewing chemical plants…The ECHR’s First Climate Ruling: What Does it Mean?
Apr 9, 2024, 12:09 pm By Isabella KaminskiThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights. In a historic judgement, the court ruled that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its greenhouse gas emissions…Sell Our CO2 to Pump More Oil? It’s Likely, Says Iowa-based Carbon Capture Project.
Apr 8, 2024, 2:46 pm By Taylor NoakesDespite pledges to the contrary, a massive proposed carbon capture project could in fact be used to pump more oil out of the ground, rather than simply storing carbon emissions from ethanol production, as it was pitched originally. A recent Reuters report…
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