🔥 NEW 🔥 Trump normalized climate denial—now it’s spreading at the highest levels of power. On May 7, join DeSmog’s Rei Takver and panelists from The New York Times and Agence France-Presse for a panel discussion to see how. buff.ly/baFcr4f

“I’m going to say something very controversial: Not every adult over the age of 18 should have the right to vote,” said Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute. Six days later, EPA chief Lee Zeldin gave the keynote at a Heartland anti-climate event. My 📝 @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...

SCOOP: A climate denial group with close ties to the Trump administration is asking whether all Americans 'should have the right to vote.' Read @rtakver.bsky.social in @desmog.com about a Heartland Institute podcast questioning 'universal suffrage.' www.desmog.com/2026/05/05/h...

🧵 Meet the Advertising CEOs Boosting Big Oil 🧵 We’ve ranked the top 9 ad company CEOs who have overseen $1.5 billion worth of fossil fuel ads in the U.S. since the Paris Agreement – including for ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell. Follow the 🧵 to learn them all 👇 www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/m...

How Zia Yusuf made his money...

🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

When food & fertiliser prices rise, who benefits? New @desmog.com story shows executives at major firms sold $66M in shares during recent price spikes. “This crisis has revealed… how dependent our food system is on fossil fuels,” says @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social. 🔗 www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/f...

Agribusiness execs banked $515 million from selling shares during key price hikes due to the Iran and Ukraine wars The findings come weeks after the United Nations’ World Food Programme warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push roughly 45 million more people into acute hunger

🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform has received £24 million – two thirds of its income – from fossil fuel interests. Farage’s pro-oil party wants to scrap clean energy projects and massively expand North Sea exploration. 📝 @desmog.com analysis with @adambarnett.bsky.social

🚨Out today: 67% percent of Reform’s funding has come from donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling £24m. Crucial reporting from @desmog.com

I got inside a European AI energy summit in Brussels last month, and the mood among gas industry players was buzzing. The UK and EU are about to unveil regs determining whether Europe's AI boom can be gas powered - even if its a disaster for the climate. Will they bow to Big Tech pressure? More👇

🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

🚨 New 🚨: You might not have heard of them, but a new DeSmog analysis shows these ad execs have overseen $1.5 billion worth of fossil fuel ads in the U.S. since the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle catastrophic climate change. buff.ly/9rNru0s

🚨New🚨: DeSmog analysis reveals that British ad giant WPP has helped oil majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP spend an estimated $1 billion on ads since the 2015 Paris climate accord, significantly more than its U.S. rivals. www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/r...

🔴 NEW - Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

Is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith betraying the very people who put her in office to build AI data centres?

⚠️ Nouvelles preuves de la désinformation organisée en ligne pour freiner la transition énergétique www.politico.eu/article/un-r... Cécile Marchand et @alphoenix.bsky.social ont enquêté pour @politico.eu et @DeSmog sur une campagne coordonnée de désinformation contre les pompes à chaleur ⤵️

Thanks to everyone who joined for our virtual discussion of the oil industry's wastewater crisis! Excellent dive into the issues with our reporter Justin Nobel and those from @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social.

Starting now: join top investigative reporters to hear how this problem is threatening land, water, and people all over the U.S.

It's not too late. Join us today at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific to discuss the oil industry's trillion-gallon time bomb: its wastewater pollution crisis. Hear from reporters with @desmog.com @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social RSVP 👇 events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

🔴 NEW 🔴 One of Reform’s donors has massively increased his fossil fuel investments during the Iran war. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social for @desmog.com

🔴 NEW - Reform Donor Expands Fossil Fuel Portfolio to £300 Million Hedge fund owner and media boss Jeremy Hosking has increased his oil, gas and coal shares by more than half this year. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

A recent series of groundbreaking investigations have shed light on the oil industry’s wastewater crisis — and how it's threatening land, water and people all over the country. RSVP for our virtual talk w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org @desmog.com tomorrow, April 28 at 4 pm ET:

Today at 4PM ET, still time to RSVP👇

Recent investigations have shed light on the oil industry’s wastewater crisis. Join us April 28 for a virtual discussion of the findings and regulatory failures w/ journalists from @desmog.com @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social RSVP events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

🚨A French PR executive with gas industry links appears to be behind a Facebook network spreading anti heat pump narratives according to an investigation from @desmog.com and @politico.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

For decades, drillers have injected a toxic waste product of oil and gas production underground. But increasingly, it doesn’t stay where it should. It’s spreading for miles, contaminating water or blasting to the surface. Join us for a virtual discussion on the oil industry’s wastewater crisis:

🔴 NEW - French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate A web of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a 'lawn mower' and brand installers 'environmental fraudsters' and ‘swindlers' 📝 Cécile Marchand www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

A man of the people. But which people? Fab work by @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/m...

April 28: Join us for a conversation about the oil industry’s wastewater crisis and its threat to public health and the environment. In partnership @readfrontier.bsky.social er.bsky.social, @insideclimatenews.org @propublica.org, RSVP and submit questions at: events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

On April 28, join us for a conversation about the oil industry’s wastewater crisis and its threat to public health and the environment. In partnership w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social, @insideclimatenews.org and @desmog.com, RSVP and submit your questions at:

Meet Fossi — a cartoon character I just discovered who wants kids to feel sorry for the fossil fuel industry. He was invented by a clean energy company. Read the full @desmog.com story to find out why: www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/m... See our reporting also in @dagensnyheter.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site. My latest for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/21/n...

"Wondering why there are so many 'experts' in the news talking about expanding oil and gas in response to the Iran War? According to our new DeSmog analysis, there's a common thread linking all those experts: a little known US group called Atlas Network."

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

My latest story for @desmog.com inside the Heartland Institute’s two-day climate denialism conference: Major cracks are emerging between climate denialists and MAHA, with fossil fuel allies calling RFK Jr. and his movement a “left-wing op.” www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/g...

With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻

🔴 NEW - Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions Live tracker of the Reform leader’s personal income. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Farage has accepted £675,000 – a third of his income – from foreign sources since becoming an MP. 📝 @desmog.com

🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources A-third of the Reform leader’s income has come from overseas interests since he became an MP. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds ▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production' My latest for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

Important Work

🔴 NEW - Reform’s Matthew Goodwin Challenged on Orbán Funding Ties at Budapest Event The GB News presenter didn’t deny still receiving income from a Hungarian think tank. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Orbán Allies Received £57 Million from State Oil Giant Days Before Election For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

In case you missed it, @desmog.com produced a map last week tracking the ties – including funding relationships – between Reform and Viktor Orbán's regime, based on our years of following this network. Check it out 👇