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Investigative journalist, co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK
@desmog.bsky
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DeSmog
about 24 hours ago
🔴 NEW: Tory-Linked Climate Denial Group Seeks Funds in Trump’s America
www.desmog.com/2026/02/24/t...
📝
@adambarnett.bsky.social
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Tory-Linked Climate Denial Group Seeks Funds in Trump’s America
An anti-net zero lobby group with ties to the Conservative Party held an event in the United States to raise funds for its pro-fossil fuel agenda, DeSmog can report. Net Zero Watch (NZW), which campa...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/24/tory-linked-climate-denial-group-seeks-funds-in-trumps-america/
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DeSmog
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🔴 AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
@rtakver.bsky.social
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AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
As a data centre construction boom sweeps the UK, creating soaring electricity demands that threaten to decimate climate targets, opportunist politicians and commentators are using this new phenomenon...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/18/ai-vs-net-zero-the-uk-next-climate-battle/
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DeSmog
12 days ago
🔴 NEW - Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network “Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump. 📝
@adambarnett.bsky.social
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Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and forme...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/reform-candidate-matthew-goodwin-gorton-denton-maga-network/
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DeSmog
15 days ago
🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”. 📝
@adambarnett.bsky.social
,
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
&
@writesbright.bsky.social
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Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund
Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp European democracy”. According to the Financial Ti...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/10/donald-trump-uk-eu-maga-slush-fund-financial-times/
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Joey Grostern
19 days ago
🔴 NEW - MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels. I was in the room so you didn’t have to be (and be glad you weren’t) For
@desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/m...
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MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/maga-gathers-in-european-parliament-to-attack-eu-laws/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
19 days ago
🔴 NEW - MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels. 📝
@joeygrostern.bsky.social
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MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/06/maga-gathers-in-european-parliament-to-attack-eu-laws/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
29 days ago
🔴 NEW | EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, says Dutch MEP
@anjahazekamp.bsky.social
following today’s legal opinion 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
👇
www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/e...
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EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say
Plans by the European Commission to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety would break EU law, according to a new legal opinion published today (27 January). The Commission announced plans in Decem...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/eu-plans-to-weaken-pesticide-rules-unlawful-experts-say/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
about 1 month ago
🔴 NEW: Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads
www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...
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@ellen-ormesher.bsky.social
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Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads
Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/amsterdam-defies-last-minute-lobbying-to-become-first-capital-city-to-ban-fossil-fuel-ads/?_thumbnail_id=93782
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Carbon Brief
about 1 month ago
NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time |
@joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
@sylviahayes.bsky.social
Read here:
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
about 1 month ago
🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups. 📝
@adambarnett.bsky.social
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‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/13/claire-coutinho-conservatives-net-zero-cost-reports-kathryn-porter-iea/
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Phoebe Cooke
Sam Bright
about 2 months ago
🔴 NEW - Farage accepted £10k in gifts from the Abu Dhabi government. The UAE is a petrostate and Farage is a climate science denier leading a pro-oil party...
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Nigel Farage Accepted £10,000 Gifts from Petrostate
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage received freebies worth £10,000 from the Abu Dhabi government, new records show. Farage’s latest register of interests shows that he accepted flights and accommodation to...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/07/nigel-farage-reform-uk-accepted-10000-gifts-from-abu-dhabi-uae-petrostate/
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🐟 NEW 🐟 Salmon giant Mowi is a market leader in Scotland, where it operates 48 farms in ‘cold and clear’ Highland waters But locals & fishers living nr several sites complain of ‘invasive’ noise & smells, and say the company just doesn’t ‘give a damn'
@brigitte-whl.bsky.social
for
@desmog.com
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2 months ago
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Brigitte Wear
2 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with
@desmog.com
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and
@desmog.com
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DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch “Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms. 📝
@writesbright.bsky.social
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The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/the-institute-of-economic-affairs-donations-funding-oil-giants-shell-bp-exxon-rupert-murdoch/
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🔵 As Trump critiques Europe's ‘decaying’ countries, this epic map joins the dots between his allies at the US climate science denial group Heartland Institute and its deep connections in Europe… 📝 by
@adambarnett.bsky.social
for
@desmog.com
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3 months ago
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DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
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‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws
A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of t...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/04/divide-and-conquer-inside-the-oil-and-gas-strategy-to-thwart-eu-green-laws/
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Ember
3 months ago
NEW | A single carbon removal project at a biomass power station In the UK could cost £30 BILLION in government subsidies. This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
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Phoebe Cooke
POLITICO Europe
3 months ago
The center-right European People's Party voted with right-wing and far-right lawmakers in the European Parliament today to back a proposal to delay by a year and weaken the EU's anti-deforestation law.
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EU conservatives vote with far right to weaken forest protections
It’s the second time the EPP has sided with far-right groups to weaken environmental rules this month.
https://www.politico.eu/article/epp-votes-with-far-right-to-delay-eu-deforestation-law/
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If you read one thing today… Incredible months-long investigation by
@lauravilladiego.bsky.social
for
@desmog.com
&
@euobserver.com
delves deep into the ‘sustainability’ claims of EU’s 1.5 billion euros exports scheme, exposing a string of deeply misleading narratives. Dive in here 👇
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3 months ago
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DeSmog
3 months ago
🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health.
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Pesticide Industry 'Hijacked' Climate Stage at COP30, Campaigners Say
Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic…
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/21/pesticide-industry-hijacked-climate-stage-at-cop30-campaigners-say/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
& Maximiliano Manzoni
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
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Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/backed-by-industry-brazilian-hosts-seek-cop30s-blessing-for-biofuels/
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Rachel Sherrington
3 months ago
NEW: > 300 lobbyists representing industrial agriculture have attended this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation 1/ 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
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More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/more-than-300-lobbyists-for-industrial-agriculture-are-attending-cop30/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
&
@ninalakhani.bsky.social
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More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/more-than-300-lobbyists-for-industrial-agriculture-are-attending-cop30/
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Damian Carrington
3 months ago
Absolutely terrible news of another Indigenous land defender killed in Brazil as
#COP30
takes place - Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva, a 36-year-old Guarani Kaiowá leader, was shot dead on Sunday morning
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates
As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/nov/17/cop30-belem-brazil-global-warming-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-691b85778f08e6fa208d84b0#block-691b85778f08e6fa208d84b0
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DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
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Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants
This investigative work had been supported by the Centre for Investigative Journalism The European Parliament voted on Thursday (13 November) to significantly dilute key elements of Europe’s climate a...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/17/overhauled-eu-climate-csrd-law-faces-new-threat-from-consultancy-giants/
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Phoebe Cooke
DeSmog
3 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30 Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say. 📝
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
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U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Top American oil and gas producers are using trade groups to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit in the absence of an official U.S. delegation, DeSmog can report. ExxonMobil and Chevron — ...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/us-oil-executives-flock-to-cop30/
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DeSmog
4 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
& Gil Alessi👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
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Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/mapped-big-foods-routes-to-influence-at-cop30/
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As COP30 gets underway in Belém, this great scoop by my colleague
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
shines a light on coordinated lobbying efforts to influence vital emissions standards. Read all about it on
@desmog.com
here👇
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DeSmog
4 months ago
🔴 NEW - Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30 The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon. 📝
@rtakver.bsky.social
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Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/nvidia-flogged-ai-brazilian-oil-and-gas-cop30/
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Clare Carlile
4 months ago
Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year. Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data. ✍️ for
@desmog.com
@theguardian.com
on research by
@sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
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Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/intensive-livestock-farms-fail-to-declare-climate-impacts-in-emissions-scandal/
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DeSmog
4 months ago
🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Data by
@sustainweb.org
reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data. 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
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Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/intensive-livestock-farms-fail-to-declare-climate-impacts-in-emissions-scandal/
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Geoff Dembicki
4 months ago
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on
@desmog.com
and
@theguardian.com
. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a-pretty-ugly-history-how-exxon-exported-climate-denial-to-the-global-south/
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Sam Bright
4 months ago
Stunning
@desmog.com
story from
@geoffdembicki.bsky.social
- showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a-pretty-ugly-history-how-exxon-exported-climate-denial-to-the-global-south/
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DeSmog
4 months ago
🔴 Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies Nigel Farage’s climate denial agenda has been pilfered by Kemi Badenoch’s party
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Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies
Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials – declaring that it would scrap the UK’s net ze...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/timeline-how-the-tories-have-copied-reform-anti-climate-policies/
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DeSmog
4 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇 📝 by
@rachelsherrington.bsky.social
&
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
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Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/big-ag-greenwashing-climate-summit-cop30/
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DeSmog
4 months ago
📍NEW📍 According to satellite readings, levels of methane — a potent climate-heating gas — have risen all along the 878-km Trans Adriatic gas pipeline. At the pipeline's southern Italy terminal, activists are trying to hold regulators and operators accountable.
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The Methane Hunters of Melendugno
Data from thermal camera raises questions over scope of climate-damaging pollution from gas imported via Adriatic sea.
https://buff.ly/ooB8JaB
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Max Colbert
4 months ago
🔴NEW: How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes at home and abroad. Me, for
@desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/10/15/h...
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How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank
A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/15/how-a-pro-climate-charity-channelled-cash-to-a-koch-funded-think-tank/
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POLITICO Europe
5 months ago
Even if the world stopped burning coal, oil and gas tomorrow, what we eat would still be enough to heat the climate beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, warns the EAT-Lancet Commission.
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Food is wrecking the planet. And Europe has lost its appetite for change.
A landmark study says food systems are breaching Earth’s limits. Europe once promised to lead the way, but the revolution fizzled.
https://www.politico.eu/article/food-wrecking-planet-europe-lost-appetite-change/
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Regressive, bizarre, stupid... just three of the words that come to mind.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrp2k3m3deo
5 months ago
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🔴 “We were treated like slaves,” recalls Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who was exploited as a fruit-picker in southern France. Shocking expose reveals how farm owners continue to get €€€ in subsidies despite allegations and convictions of labour abuse 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/revealed-eu-farm-subsidy-bankrolls-widespread-labour-abuse/
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DeSmog
5 months ago
🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/revealed-eu-farm-subsidy-bankrolls-widespread-labour-abuse/
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🔵 NEW: A pair of far-right European politicians flew 5,000 miles this summer to meet with prominent pro-Trump climate denial group in Tampa, Florida Feat reactions from
@lenaats.bsky.social
&
@olivierhoedeman.bsky.social
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www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/p...
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Pro-Trump Climate Denial Group Meets With Far-Right European Politicians in Florida
Members of the European Parliament flew 5,000 miles to Florida this summer to meet with the head of a U.S. climate denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Freedom Party of Austria’s Harald Vilimsky and Alter...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/pro-trump-climate-denial-group-meets-with-far-right-european-politicians-in-florida/
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🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships. Vital, shocking exposé from
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Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/chilling-surveillance-activists-meat-and-dairy-industry-animal-agriculture-alliance/
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal. 📝
@desmog.com
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Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push
President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned inves...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/18/donald-trump-ambassador-warren-stephens-fortune-intertwined-big-tech-trade-push/
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Clare Carlile
6 months ago
Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science ✍️ for
@desmog.com
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DeSmog
6 months ago
🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints 📝
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
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www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
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Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/epp-linked-tax-group-collaborated-far-right-party-criminal-complaints/
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Dave Vetter
6 months ago
"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
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Joey Grostern
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ICYMI AI 'Slop' Websites publishing climate denial MSN hosted articles citing fake experts and institutions, posted by group linked to AI-based animal media outlet This slop used as 'evidence' by climate deniers incl. Heartland institute (Published while I was away) My latest for
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AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/ai-slop-websites-are-publishing-climate-science-denial/
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DeSmog
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day 📝@joeygrostern.bsky.social feat analysis from
@stopfundingheat.bsky.social
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www.desmog.com/2025/08/21/m...
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Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day
TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report. The channel, which attracts nearly half a million listeners a week, consi...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/21/murdoch-owned-talkradio-airs-anti-climate-attacks-six-times-a-day/
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