DeSmog has won two awards at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards for our work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action.

A meat-industry funded group intrusively surveilled animal rights activists, including personal relationships, and shared their findings with industry members and law enforcement “It’s a chilling intrusion into people’s private lives and constitutional rights,” one activist said Via @desmog.com

🔴 NEW 🔴 Pro-Trump Climate Denial Group Meets With Far-Right European Politicians in Florida 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/p...

The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. ✍️ My latest for @desmog.com

🔴 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 @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

"This story is a critical reminder, judges said, of the immense resources that powerful actors will bring to bear to burnish their green credentials and, in a way, hijack the global climate change discourse." Congratulations Adam Lowenstein on your 2025 CCNow Journalism Award! 🥂

“Consistently superb,” judges said. “TJ’s stories are smart, original, and important.” Congratulations to our very own @tjjordan.bsky.social for his recognition as "Emerging Journalist of the Year"! at The 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards! 🥂

🔴 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 story 👇

🔴 NEW - Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push U.S. “corporate titans” are being allowed to build energy intensive data centres on British soil. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

In rural Georgia, residents are waking up to the massive impacts that "hyperscale" data centre projects will have on local habitats, water and air quality -- and starting to push back. buff.ly/7PyHWjc

Lobbyists helped draft a local law that would pave the way for construction of a "hyperscale" data center in a rural Georgia town. Many locals are resisting the plan, which gets a hearing tonight at the county fairgrounds. buff.ly/Vzv6aqO

🔴 NEW 🔴 Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...

🔴 Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? Farage’s new directors reflect his anti-science views. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔥 Reform UK is hosting leading climate denial groups at its conference this weekend, including the Heartland Institute, which describes human-caused climate change as a “delusion.” via @desmog.com buff.ly/lwfDkI9

🔴 NEW 🔴 A leading press freedom watchdog has said it's "shocking" that Reform has banned journalists from its conference and has accused Farage's party of drawing from the "authoritarian playbook". 📝 @desmog.com report 👇

🔴 NEW - Reform’s Decision to Ban Journalists from Conference Branded ‘Shocking’ by Press Freedom Watchdog DeSmog and the New World have been blacklisted by Nigel Farage’s party. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Reform’s climate policies would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy. Our research referenced in today's @DeSmog.com report 1/2

🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform's conference this weekend is set to feature a wide assortment of dark money campaign groups, U.S. climate science deniers, and anti-vaxxers. 📝 My @desmog.com report 👇

🔴 NEW - Climate Deniers to Converge on Reform Conference Campaigners say Farage is showing “open contempt” for the British public. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Well this is awkward... Another great story from @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/03/m...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Marks and Spencer has been one of the few big brands willing to advertise on GB News this year. All the while, GB News owner Paul Marshall's hedge fund has been betting on the retailer's failure. 📝 My @desmog.com story also in today's Private Eye... 👇

🔴 NEW - M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcaster’s Owner Bet on the Retailer’s Failure The decision to advertise on Paul Marshall’s platform has been a “PR disaster” for Marks and Spencer, campaigners say. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

The Trump administration's "climate working group" produced a report full of errors, typos, and climate denial talking points, according to a new review by upwards of 100 climate experts led by @andrewdessler.com. @sharonkelly.bsky.social and @ejgertz.bsky.social report for @desmog .

Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers

great reporting by @desmog.com on Saudi Aramco's strategy to 'future proof' its image, while continuing to massively expand fossil fuel and petrochemical production

🤦‍♂️ AI slop websites are publishing climate denial, and the people doing it even included the prompt they gave a chatbot to write the nonsense. Great story by @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

AI slop websites are churning out climate science denial, using made up research from fake experts. MSN, the world’s 4th-largest news aggregator, published some of these articles to millions before they were pulled. Learn more via @desmog.com buff.ly/SXgQ4Ig

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social‬ www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...

“AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial" | Article by @joeygrostern.bsky.social for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage plans to hand a massive fracking windfall to a Trump donor. Reform's policies would allow Lincolnshire to be drilled by a firm whose boss has given money to the past two Trump campaigns. 📝 @desmog.com scoop 👇

🔴 NEW - Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor Farage’s representatives have held meetings with a MAGA-linked fossil fuel firm. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @rtakver.bsky.social

Shocking, fascinating and downright ridiculous story from @joeygrostern.bsky.social about AI slop websites churning out climate denial 👇🏻

🔴 NEW - AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

🔴 Farage to Share Stage with Architects of Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda The Reform leader will be skipping Parliament again in favour of a conference in Washington DC. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🚨 Exclusive from @desmog.com: After making an “industry first” climate pledge in 2022, ad giant IPG went on to rebrand the world’s largest oil company as a climate solutions provider, despite its massive new fossil fuel investments. buff.ly/duy3sLi

Ad Giant IPG Accused of Breaking its ‘Industry First’ Climate Policy With Work for World’s Biggest Oil Company - Firm planned to help Saudi Aramco influence policymakers, leaked documents reveal Great work by @tjjordan.bsky.social @desmog.com HT @carbonbrief.org www.desmog.com/2025/08/25/i...

After months of interviews and sourcing documents, we reveal ad giant IPG is accused of breaking its ‘industry first’ climate policy for its work with the world’s biggest oil company. Read here on @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/08/25/i... Also in @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/422nMkH

A dozen past and present staffers from ad giant IPG claim its rebranding campaigns for Saudi Aramco—intended partly to persuade officials that Aramco was developing climate solutions—breached its commitment to avoid worsening the climate crisis. #greenwashing #advertising buff.ly/duy3sLi

A DeSmog investigation uncovers that nearly 200 employees from 15 Interpublic Group firms worked on a campaign to rebrand Saudi Aramco as a leader in sustainable energy. #greenwashing #advertising buff.ly/A5LiDId

Google exec Ruth Porat cheers on Interior chief Doug Burgham's climate denial talking points — like increasing "incredibly clean" coal plants to power AI — at elite tech/lawmaker confab. Geoff Dembicki reports. buff.ly/EbvMpSE @GeoffDembicki

🔴 NEW 🔴 Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day 📝@joeygrostern.bsky.social feat analysis from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/08/21/m...

Interesting (and worrying!) story by my colleague @rtakver.bsky.social about how Labour is giving a “blank cheque” to Farage and his DOGE agenda 👇🏻

📍 BREAKING 📍 The day after DeSmog exposed that industry lobbyists weakened environmental rules to potentially install a “hyperscale” data center in rural Georgia, residents packed a community meeting to stop the $17 billion project. Read about the residents’ pushback here.:

🔴 NEW - Labour’s New Data Law is a ‘Blank Cheque’ for Farage to DOGE Britain A “rogue” government could seize sensitive information on UK residents, data privacy experts fear. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

Big tech and big oil say AI can help cut climate-changing pollution.🌍 Meanwhile, they're mostly using AI to drill more oil🛢️, while handing it the keys to the ⚡ power grid. My latest, for @desmog.com, on the race to use AI for fossil fuels underneath the greenwashing: www.desmog.com/2025/08/13/c...

🔴 NEW - MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate Former BP scientist Steve Koonin claimed Brits should be “enraged” about Labour’s climate policies. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @rtakver.bsky.social

So, the president of Google called the Trump admin's climate denialism "fantastic." Read the latest from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com + @thelever.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/g...

A $17 billion data center complex. Power demand 14 times the Atlanta airport, the world's busiest. 9 million gallons of water a day. We reveal the outsized stamp of industry lobbyists on planning laws easing the way for Project Sail, proposed for a rural county 40 miles from Atlanta buff.ly/ev66QkH

🚨 NEW 🚨 County commissioners in Georgia may pave the way for a $17 billion “hyperscale” data center on Tuesday by adopting new planning laws shaped by industry lobbyists. buff.ly/ev66QkH