While geopolitics realign with major implications for climate and justice, we track the key players others miss. UK Deputy Editor Sam Bright revealed that the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, convened a meeting of hardline allies to discuss dismantling the European Union.

We keep fossil fuel companies on their toes: Norwegian oil giant Equinor retracted its claim that it stores 1 million tonnes of CO2 annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog contributor Edward Donnelly’s investigation showed it stores as little as one-tenth of that amount 💥

🚨 New! 🚨 Spend a few minutes reliving DeSmog's year of investigating the fossil fuel companies, tech giants, climate deniers, and right-wing political operatives that have thrown their fortunes in with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

📍 NEW 📍Behind closed doors in Coweta County, Georgia: $17B data center backers get direct access to decision-makers — residents don’t. Read DeSmog's latest. buff.ly/u9QtxyA #datacenters #CowetaCounty #EdwardDonnelly

📍 NEW 📍 NY Young Republicans celebrated with far-right politicians from France, Germany, and other European nations at a lavish annual gala in Manhattan — an event co-organized by a think tank linked to Hungary's right-wing Orban government.

📍 NEW 📍Behind closed doors in Coweta County, Georgia: $17B data center backers get direct access to decision-makers — residents don’t. Read DeSmog's latest. buff.ly/u9QtxyA #datacenters #CowetaCounty #EdwardDonnelly

📍 NEW 📍Behind closed doors in Coweta County, Georgia: $17B data center backers get direct access to decision-makers — residents don’t. Read DeSmog's latest. buff.ly/u9QtxyA #datacenters #CowetaCounty #EdwardDonnelly

buff.ly/tGeQ7CI 🚨Big UK theatres, museums, and galleries are facing calls to stop taking sponsorship money from big polluters and the banks that finance them. Here's how the PR firm Brunswick Group stepped in to help keep the fossil fuel money flowing.

📍 NEW 📍 Water use. Power demand. Rural land loss. Coweta County, Georgia, residents raised alarms about a proposed $17 billion data center — but lobbyists got the meetings. Emails uncovered by DeSmog reveal the imbalance. buff.ly/9Cx5T9h #GeorgiaPolitics #CowetaCounty #ProjectSail #datacenters

🔴 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

🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘They Don’t Give A Damn’: Scotland’s Highland Communities Tire of Charm Offensive by ‘Polluting’ Salmon Giant Mowi 📝 @brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/t...

The "Institute of Economic Affairs" banked £640,000 in past donations from oil giants BP and Shell, and from Rupert Murdoch - investigation by @desmog.com reveals how IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms #climatecrisis www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...

What's the climate cost of keeping these old coal plants open? Last year, they belched out over 68 million tons of CO2. That's more than the total emissions of Delaware, Maryland, and DC combined. Get the full story from @joefassler.bsky.social

🚨 New analysis🚨 Since Trump returned to power, 15 coal plants had planned retirements pushed back or delayed indefinitely. Nearly 75 percent were on track to shutter in the next two years. AI is a major, but not the only driver. Read more 👉

At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing. And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy. Read more at @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...

🚨 New from @desmog.com: 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. buff.ly/BktUF1G

Thank you @desmog.com you're doing invaluable investigative journalism.

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

🔴 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

The Heartland Institute, a MAGA climate denial group, has been trying to influence UK and European politics with the help of Nigel Farage. We’ve mapped their key allies as they attempt to impose Trump’s agenda across the pond 👇🏻

🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

buff.ly/1WOF5BI 🚨 Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education

🔴 ‘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

📍 NEW 📍 Mark Carney's new pipeline deal puts First Nations in a double bind -- environmentally and financially. Read Mitch Anderson's latest: buff.ly/xldb2TX

🔴 NEW - Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

For months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme. What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly Read my full investigation on @desmog.com

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 👇

🔴 NEW 🔴 MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims 📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...

🔴 NEW - Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’ Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime. @writesbright.bsky.social

🚨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. buff.ly/Yc8qocr

🚨 Exclusive: As PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at the COP30 climate summit, the firm was also lobbying for Brazilian fossil fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it, documents show. Full story below: buff.ly/DwMvot9

🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...

🚨 Did you know that food companies routinely make bacon look pinker by adding a chemical — nitrates — that increases cancer risk? In a similar way, global agribusiness pays ad and PR agencies to mask its role as a major emitter of greenhouse gases with a rosy glow.🐄 #COP30 buff.ly/HEpesbX

🔴 NEW - Corporate Giant KPMG Accused of ‘Sneaking’ into COP30 Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

🚨 As the focus of the U.N. COP30 climate talks in Brazil turns to food systems, our colleagues at Unearthed show how industrial farming and pesticide companies are seeking to dominate discussion by cutting sponsorship deals with the hosts. buff.ly/9fhjf5t

Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:

🔴 NEW - Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 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 👇

🔴 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.

🔴 NEW 🔴 In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds 📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social Published in partnership with @apublica.org www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

📍 BREAKING 📍 Canada delegation to COP30 stuffed with fossil fuel representatives, reflecting a new report that shows this year's UN climate talks have the highest number ever of fossil fuel lobbyists. buff.ly/FlNKBmT

🔴 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...

'Pavilion partner AVEVA indicated that it had more than 600 oil and gas customers in December 2023, while the “success stories” listed on its website include projects with fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Chevron, and others.'

🔴 UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30 Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.

buff.ly/s8bYF4E The Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 is a transformative seven-day event bringing together leading voices in climate action, trauma-informed care, and regenerative solutions, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Registration details below. Hope to see you there!

Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec? @desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30... We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...

🐄 New analysis from @desmog.com shows how food and farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives are set to navigate COP30. buff.ly/20x5AAL

As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi

buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.