Utility Industry Dollars Continue to Pour Into Louisiana Public Service Commission Elections
Nov 1, 2024, 8:01 pm By Sara SneathOn Tuesday, Louisiana voters in 13 parishes will decide who will fill a vacant seat on Louisiana’s Public Service Commission, a little known but powerful five-member body that regulates electric companies, oversees telecommunications services, and sets…Majority of PR and Ad Sector Clients Obstruct Climate Action: Report
Nov 1, 2024, 5:01 am By TJ Jordan
The world’s largest advertising and public relations firms continue to get the majority of their work from major polluters, a new report has found. Known as the “Big Six,” WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis, Dentsu, and Havas — operating…DeSmog and Pocket Project Team Up to Host Climate Consciousness Summit 2024
Oct 31, 2024, 11:36 am By Joey Grostern
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…Norwegian Oil Giant’s Plan to Capture UK’s Carbon Is Fraught With Risks
Oct 31, 2024, 9:08 am By Edward Donnelly
This story is the sixth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play…How Saudi Arabia’s Neom Giga Project Became a Global Showroom of False Climate Solutions
Oct 31, 2024, 6:01 am By Lyse Mauvais
Neom was launched in 2017 with a whirlwind of promises. The 26,500 square-kilometre “futuristic” giga project is the brainchild of Saudi Arabia, a fossil fuel state that has pitched Neom as a “revolution in civilisation”. Neom’s crown jewel, The…Chicago Utility’s Plan for Aging Natural Gas Pipelines Runs Up Against Energy Transition
Oct 30, 2024, 5:10 pm By Sharon Kelly
If you ask Chicago’s gas pipeline utility, Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, or PGL, the best way to fix the problem of leaks from underground gas pipelines, their answer is the most ambitious option — running new, upgraded plastic pipelines throughout…Alberta’s Oil Sands Operators Still Won’t Pay for Their Own Cleanup
Oct 30, 2024, 3:21 pm By Mitch Anderson
In a scathing 2023 report, University of Calgary researchers summed up provincial oversight of the oil patch with the following opening sentence: “Alberta policy on inactive and orphan oil and gas wells is a massive regulatory failure characterized by a…Southern Company Is Promoting ‘Propaganda’ Disguised as Research — With Help From a Major Media Company
Oct 30, 2024, 1:35 pm By Emily SandersAs I was writing about the first local government to sue a gas utility for climate deception, I received a message in my LinkedIn inbox from another major power provider — Southern Company, a utility holding company heavily invested in gas throughout the…The Telegraph Ramps Up Anti-Climate Coverage During Labour’s Early Months
Oct 29, 2024, 12:32 pm By Joey Grostern
Columnists at The Telegraph newspaper repeatedly attacked the new Labour government’s climate policies during its first 100 days in office, DeSmog can reveal. A DeSmog analysis of over 1,600 opinion pieces and editorials from The Telegraph’s website…The Friendly New Face of Dark Money: How Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard helped wealthy donors pour $171 million of dark money into Project 2025
Oct 28, 2024, 9:12 pm By Joe FasslerSince 2020, three major financial services companies — Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard — have helped affluent philanthropists funnel at least $171 million to the nonprofits behind Project 2025, whose central platform rejects the climate crisis,…Mapped: How Big Ag, Pharma, Pesticides and Other Industries Hope to Sway the UN Biodiversity Talks
Oct 28, 2024, 7:01 pm By Hazel Healy and Rachel SherringtonUnder thundery tropical skies, and amid ever more dire warnings on the precarious state of the world’s ecosystems, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference is unfolding in Colombia. This year’s summit, known as COP16, follows on from the last…Fracking Pioneer Gwyn Morgan Gave $530K to Anti-Climate Website ‘True North’
Oct 28, 2024, 1:39 pm By Geoff Dembicki
A far-right Canadian website whose contributors have disputed the extent to which fossil fuels are warming our atmosphere, attacked the science demonstrating that climate change leads to more destructive wildfires and suggested climate advocates are “the…Norway’s Equinor Admits It “Over-Reported” Amount of Carbon Captured At Flagship Project for Years
Oct 28, 2024, 5:01 am By Edward Donnelly
This story is the fifth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has admitted over-reporting the performance of a flagship carbon capture and storage project…WisdomTree Hit with $4 Million Penalty for Misleading Investors on Fossil Fuel Holdings
Oct 25, 2024, 2:43 pm By Sharon KellyThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week fired a shot over the bow at Wall Street companies that promise to help investors avoid putting their money into fossil fuels and tobacco — but steer funds towards those companies anyway. In a…Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Oct 25, 2024, 1:15 pm By Joe Fassler
As scrutiny of Project 2025 continues to grow, defenders of the Heritage Foundation-led initiative, which would reshape federal governance and give the next Republican president unprecedented new powers, say it’s the criticism — not the 922-page plan…‘Money in Exchange for Silence’: Behind Neom’s Green Image, Western Firms Cash in on Saudi Commitment to Oil
Oct 25, 2024, 5:00 am By Adam M. Lowenstein
The video opens with the voice of a child. “Since the beginning, we’ve changed things,” she says. “It’s in our genes. It’s what makes us human.” The viewer zooms through stages in human development — agriculture, science, air travel, space…Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn
Oct 24, 2024, 4:27 am By Sophie Kevany
Fish is often sold as the perfect climate-friendly dinner: highly nutritious and lower carbon than other forms of protein. But new research is increasingly bringing some of these eco marketing claims into question. In part, because industrial fishing –…Alberta’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ Attack Part of an ‘Endless Propaganda War,’ Say Critics
Oct 23, 2024, 7:48 pm By Taylor Noakes
The government of Alberta and Canadian newspaper chain Postmedia are being accused of publishing disinformation on the front pages of major Canadian newspapers. But critics are also pointing out the ad campaign distracts from the bigger issue of whether…Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
Oct 23, 2024, 1:24 pm By Geoff Dembicki
For months top Democrats have fixated on Project 2025, the radical blueprint of policy and personnel recommendations for a Donald Trump administration published by The Heritage Foundation and its allies, with Kamala Harris’ campaign calling it “a sweeping…Tory MPs Join Fuel Tax Campaign Led by Reform UK Climate Science Denier
Oct 23, 2024, 11:32 am By Joey Grostern
Conservative MPs have backed a campaign against raising fuel tax led by a Reform UK politician and lobbyist who has publicly claimed that “man is not responsible for global warming”. Howard Cox, director of the lobby group FairFuel UK, yesterday led a…
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