Reading this felt even more shocking having worked on migrant workers rights because a) states are notoriously lax on finding + convicting abuses b) few migrant workers can speak out let alone get convictions due to risk of retaliation or exportation So this millions is the tip of a *huge* iceberg

If I recommend reading one thing today it's this... An amazing group of journalists have spent a year tracking the millions in CAP subsidies going to farmers who are being investigated, have been convicted, or are even in prison for violating migrant workers' rights

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

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 🔴 ‘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

🔴 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

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

🔴 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...

Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial - MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions. - “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit” By @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

🔴 10k water quality tests have been cut by the UK's environmental regulator since May, designed to monitor the impacts of sewage, farm runoff and other pollution on rivers & lakes ✍️with the brill @ellieodonnell.bsky.social for @desmog.com & @unearthednews.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/s...

The Environment Agency has dropped 10,000 water quality tests that track the health of rivers and lakes due to staff shortages at their main lab. Latest from me and @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Docs Reveal Conservationists warn that cancellation of thousands of tests since May will leave a “regulatory and ecological blind spot” 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

❓Who does Nigel Farage work for? Since 2024 election: £93,904 — MP salary (8.7%) £981,173 — outside income (91%) GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k) www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...

[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..

NEW: Our months-long investigation traces fat-filled milk powder, the most popular Irish dairy export, on a 3,000 mile journey from Ireland to West Africa 🧵

Leaked proposals suggest EU may end farm subsidies linked environmental projects CAP accounts for 1/3rd of the EU's budget, and was only recently reformed in 2023 to better support environmental action Great rundown by @natashafoote.bsky.social @arc2020.bsky.social www.arc2020.eu/leak-cap-cru...

NEW: Getting to net-zero will be much cheaper than thought for the UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says OBR Quick piece / thread with 4 key charts showing, yet again, why climate action is far less costly than inaction 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

In Ingleside, Texas, chemical companies Yara + Enbridge have launched initiatives touching every aspect of life, from gifting children's schools to running a blood donation drive The reason: they want to build a 'low-carbon' ammonia plant that resident say could cost their health and coastline 🧵

🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

🔴 NEW 🔴 Rachel Reeves told an oil giant that the industry would receive a "quid pro quo" if it accepted the windfall tax hike. 📝 My @desmog.com scoop with @theguardian.com

ICYMI: UK chancellor Rachel Reeves promised fossil fuel firms govt investment in carbon capture and storage - prolonging the use of oil and gas - in exchange for higher taxes. Incredible scoop from @writesbright.bsky.social

Excited to be chatting to @amydickman.bsky.social and @alexanderlees.bsky.social on Thursday about misinformation and the threat to biodiversity Particularly interested to hear their take on how journalists and scientists can work together to tackle this threat

(These guys have been working pretty hard to "occupy" Brussels so worth having a read)

@joeygrostern.bsky.social has been meticulously cataloging the climate record of Orban's think tank MCC - as well as its major fossil fuel funding And let me tell you there are some clangers in there Check out @desmog.com 's new profile www.desmog.com/mathias-corv...

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

'No additional warming' sounds innocently optimistic - but, propelled by the meat and dairy industry, it could have really scary consequences Scientists say it's an “accounting trick” that may result in governments ignoring ~1/3rd of all emissions

The EU’s largest fertiliser producer, Yara, is quietly relying on fracked shale gas from Texas to power “sustainable” ammonia production Over the last 9 months, we traced Yara’s supply chain from the Permian shale Basin – known as a “carbon bomb” – to fertiliser bags in Europe’s fields 🧵

🔴 NEW 🔴 Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets on Shale 📝 Agathe Bounfour & @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...

An unreal two-year investigation from @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social for @desmog.com Showing how a vital food source is being diverted from families in West Africa to produce seabass and seabream for our supermarket shelves Would highly highly recommend reading

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We know industry and PR firms can undermine peer-reviewed science but it’s rare to get this 🪟 into their tactics 🧵 In a newly seen document, Red Flag boasts of its “remarkable success” framing the landmark Eat-Lancet report as “radical”, “out of touch” & “hypocritical” Latest @desmog.bsky.social👇

🔴 NEW 🔴 The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻

The think tank's parent MCC has been handed $1.3 billion in state funding from Hungary's ruling Fidesz since 2020, including 10% shares in the country's oil and gas giant MOL Meanwhile, it has called for the EU to pull funding for "shadowy" civil rights NGOs, calling for a European DOGE 🤨

🔴 NEW 🔴 Orbán-Backed Think Tank Breached Lobbying Rules, Claims EU Watchdog An official complaint slams MCC Brussels for failing to declare its funding, and warns that European democracy is under “severe attack”. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage spread a far-right conspiracy theory at the farming protests on Monday. 📝 New @desmog.bsky.social story from @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @clarecarlile.bsky.social 👇🏻

Just tried to use EJScreen - an EPA tool that provided data about environmental justice issues in local communities, like rates of cancer-causing air pollution and ethnic breakdown of local population But it's no longer there- last available 21st January

🔴 NEW 🔴 Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage will be speaking later this month at “Glastonbury for climate deniers”. The pair are part of Paul Marshall’s new attempt to convene the radical right-wing oligarchy

🔴 NEW 🔴 Russia ‘Spread Conspiracy Theories and Attacked Climate Scientists in Poland’ False narratives spread through state-owned news sites and social media bots, report finds. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/02/03/r...

🔴 NEW 🔴 U.S. Climate Denial Group Using Far-Right to Attack EU Green Policies The pro-Trump Heartland Institute claims it spearheaded opposition to a flagship European nature law. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 A US climate denial group with close ties to Donald Trump has been working with far-right politicians to undermine EU green reforms. 📝 My @desmog.bsky.social story with the Guardian 👇🏻

High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds

Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record

Looks like all that money poured into discrediting climate scientists by the fossil fuel industry has worked ....

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🔵 NEW 🔵 Voters in Ireland are heading to the polls tomorrow 🗳️ politicians, alongside dairy giants & farm lobby, are backing the nitrates derogation - that allows some farmers to use more polluting fertiliser & manure than EU normally permits But the farmers we spoke to say it's a 'con' 🧵👇

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nitrates Derogation is a ‘Con’, Says Ireland’s Farmers Ahead of tomorrow's snap election, dairy producers tell Irish government to step off the 'treadmill' of unsustainable milk production – and share a more holistic vision. 📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/11/28/n...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Private emails show how ministers helped to “stage manage” Shell’s relocation to the UK. 📝 DeSmog scoop from @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2024/11/25/m...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protest to Attack Net Zero Jeremy Clarkson marched with anti-net zero campaign group Together, after writing that inheritance tax was gov attempt to replace farmers with migrants ✍️ @adambarnett.bsky.social and me www.desmog.com/2024/11/21/c... 🧵