Trump Dissed Poilievre, Revealing Key Weakness for Conservatives
Feb 11, 2025, 12:57 pm By Mitch Anderson
Canadians breathed a sigh of relief after Donald Trump paused his threat of devastating tariffs for 30 days. That stalemate will hopefully hold for a few more weeks, even as Trump announced new tariffs on aluminum and steel Monday. In the meantime, Pierre…Ad Firms Make Oil Companies Look Green. Here’s Six Ways They Greenwash Themselves.
Feb 10, 2025, 7:04 pm By Kathryn Clare and Cartie Werthman
Imagine spending countless hours producing a catchy ad campaign that’s now blanketing the internet. Views are bubbling up like champagne fizz. The creative team is high-fiving each other down the hallway — But that’s where the celebration stops. At…Ad Giant WPP Has Broken International Guidelines on Climate and Human Rights, Charge Campaigners
Feb 10, 2025, 7:01 pm By Ellen Ormesher
Climate campaigners have filed a complaint against WPP, the London-based advertising giant, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), stating that it has violated key corporate guidelines on climate and human rights. Adfree Cities…Canada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline
Feb 10, 2025, 6:00 am By Taylor Noakes
The Canadian government quietly approved a staggering $20 billion loan to support the Trans-Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. According to Canadian environmental advocacy organization Environmental Defence, this raises the Canadian government’s total…Pierre Poilievre Keen on Canadian LNG Despite Economic and Environmental Risk
Feb 6, 2025, 3:57 pm By Taylor Noakes
Despite the considerable environmental risk and a potentially oversaturated market over the next two years, Pierre Poilievre, the man who may be Canada’s next prime minister, wants to go all in on liquified natural gas (LNG). Poilievre, the leader of…Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to Speak at ‘Glastonbury for Climate Deniers’
Feb 4, 2025, 1:03 pm By Sam Bright
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage have been announced as speakers at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference later this month alongside close allies of President Donald Trump and his anti-climate agenda, DeSmog can reveal. ARC is a network of…Finger-Pointing Over Funding Freeze May Lead Trump to Drop Lawyer Linked to DOGE and Project 2025
Feb 3, 2025, 8:47 pm By Sharon KellyThe recent federal funding freeze spurred immediate finger-pointing inside the Trump administration, with anonymous sources telling major news outlets that attorney Mark Paoletta was responsible for drafting the infamous memo that briefly paused trillions in…Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the ‘Weaponized Abuse’ of Authoritarianism
Feb 3, 2025, 6:08 pm By Matthew Green
It’s a ‘coup in plain sight.’ That’s political analyst Jared Yates Sexton’s verdict on the news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was granted full access to the systems that handle trillions of dollars in federal payments at the weekend —…Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland’
Feb 3, 2025, 8:51 am By Joey GrosternRussia has been spreading climate disinformation in Poland as part of a “long-term cognitive war” to sow division. This is according to a major new report by Poland’s military counterintelligence service, which reviewed over 2,000 unclassified and…Global Football’s Dirty Climate Tackle
Feb 3, 2025, 1:01 am By Andrew Simms and Dr Stuart ParkinsonWhen seemingly hardened observers watched in horrified awe at the record Los Angeles wildfiresturning whole neighbourhoods into hot, charred, post-apocalyptic remains, cold sweats were almostcertainly running down the backs of the city’s event planners. Why?…Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting, Demand Democrats Put Workers and Climate First
Jan 31, 2025, 6:07 pm By Zach D. Roberts
Spurred on by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles that experts say were climate-change related, the activist group Climate Defiance held a protest on January 31 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C., against the Democratic…Peter Mandelson’s Consultancy Lobbied New Government on Behalf of Shell
Jan 31, 2025, 8:54 am By Adam Barnett
Labour’s top diplomat to Donald Trump’s United States leads a public affairs firm that has attempted to influence the new UK government on behalf of the oil and gas giant Shell, and the coal mining company Anglo American. Peter Mandelson – who was a…Cenovus Funded ‘Grassroots’ Groups That Oppose Climate Laws, Document Reveals
Jan 30, 2025, 2:38 pm By Geoff Dembicki
A “grassroots” group called Canada Action has run nationwide ads on billboards, buses and social media promoting fossil fuels. An industry organization known as the Conference Board of Canada has produced reports claiming climate policy will cause dire…Danielle Smith’s Capitulation to Big Coal Echoes Her Fawning Interactions with Donald Trump
Jan 29, 2025, 7:20 pm By Mitch AndersonShould Canada’s leaders stand up to powerful foreign bullies or simply give them what they want and hope for the best? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith revealed her preference this month when her Energy Minister Brian Jean quietly instructed regulators to once…We Need a Data Revolution to Avert Climate Disaster
Jan 28, 2025, 12:57 pm By Stephen Marshall
The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the aftermath of such devastation, an obvious question looms: How did we miss the warning signs? The answer is clear. Unlike other feedback systems…Climate Denial Group Aided Legal Defense of Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire
Jan 27, 2025, 5:03 pm By Rebecca John and Geoff Dembicki
An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly carrying out a hack-and-leak operation commissioned on behalf of ExxonMobil is fighting against his extradition to a Brooklyn, NY, detention center. During a packed hearing last week at…Trump Interior Nominee Doug Burgum Hosted ‘VIP Dinner’ for Oil, Gas, and Coal Execs Last Year, Emails Show
Jan 27, 2025, 11:58 am By Sharon Kelly
Doug Burgum, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, held a dinner for fossil fuel CEOs at a private event during the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, held in Bismarck, ND, from May 14 to 16, 2024, emails obtained by the research group…The Rising Hunger of AI Data Centers Accelerates the Need for Clean Energy to Meet Demand
Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 am By Ned Randolph
In just seconds, a click and a prompt can conjure a song or a compelling story lede as if by magic. But behind the seamless convenience of AI tools lies an insatiable appetite for energy. Data centers powering artificial intelligence consume as much…Alberta’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Strategy Doesn’t Apply to Polluters
Jan 23, 2025, 6:31 pm By Mitch Anderson
“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…The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum
Jan 23, 2025, 5:00 am By Rupert Read
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…
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Thu 8:25pm By Joe Fassler - ‘Net Zero is a Killer’: Meet Reform UK’s New Chair David Bull
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Thu 8:14am By Taylor Noakes - How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
Thu 5:33am By Sam Bright - As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data
Wed 11:26am By Sharon Kelly - Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm
Wed 7:31am By Sam Bright - Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers
Tue 12:01pm By Sam Bright - Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy, Research Finds
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