Public sector workers in the UK are inadvertently funding companies drilling new oil wells in the North Sea

If court decides against government on Wednesday, dozens of Tory MPs are likely to demand exit from European convention on human rights

Camden Council pledges 'urgent investigation' after its contractors are filmed throwing belongings into a bin lorry

Local groups opposing carbon capture and storage projects claim the industry is ignoring community engagement and consent.

A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking. Authors say that "no rules or regulations can make these practices safe."

Energy firm’s lawsuit seeks indefinite block on protesters targeting its infrastructure

Annual ‘scorecard’ of major firms insuring oil, gas and coal projects puts household names Allianz, Axa, AIG and Aegis in Top 10

As Federalist Society members prepare to gather in Washington, DC this weekend, it’s important to recognize this conference is not an exploration of conservative legal perspectives — it’s an opp...

A new federal rule would make it easier for consumers to shop around at different banks to look for better interest rates. Financial institutions are fighting the agency behind it tooth and nail.

The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations.

Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’

Analysis of federal lobbying documents by Food and Water Watch finds industry targeted dozens of pieces of legislation

In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of stu...

Woman is accused of assisting Russian oligarchs and ransomware affiliates with schemes to evade sanctions.

Local groups opposing carbon capture and storage projects claim the industry is ignoring community engagement and consent.

When will the right give us a break from cringing public displays of their existential crisis?

Thanks to higher costs, increased red tape and supply chain damage, we must get used to living in a country with empty shelves

Under the rubric of “Project 2025,” Trump aides are drawing up plans for authoritarian rule and the legal persecution of their enemies.

Advisers have also discussed deploying the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.

From diversification to levelling up, more countries are embracing the benefits of FTZs

Westminster loves to moan about the social media platform formerly known as Twitter even as it becomes ever less useful to politicians and journalists alike. What would it take to finally kill off X a...

This latest curious meeting of right-wing minds in a sold out inaugural conference at the world’s busiest concert venue, shows how much this form of cultural nationalism, which emphases the preserva...

On September 13, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) fined Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, $1.2 million for abandoning a natural gas pipeline without notifying fede...

Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion...

We know very little about the funding for many of the UK's leading think tanks – but a new report sheds some light

Suella Braverman signs ‘migration and security agreement’ with Austrian counterpart in move to work more closely together

As Governments are preparing their plans on how to implement the commitments they have made in the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, we urge them to adopt regulations of the fin...

China, Russia and Turkey are all mentioned as active meddlers in French politics and society in assessment that draws a line between free and authoritarian global blocs.

London’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference brought together big-name right-wingers from around the globe — but struggled to agree a clear message.

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ ar...

Children being classed as adults under flawed age assessments could end up on Rwanda flight

Exclusive: DP World, part-owned by the Dubai government, may have ‘artificially reduced profits’, a new report claims

Opposition builds as parents’ group stokes nation’s culture wars.

Force makes first use of section 7 of Public Order Act to curtail slow march protest outside parliament

One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal.  This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was a...

Conservative politicians continue to write bills that are designed to maintain the devastating hold of the fossil fuel industry on US energy.

First, some business. I changed my blogging schedule from weekly to whenever because I am under contract to write a book for high school-level readers on the Bill of Rights, and the deadline is loomin...

Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government

Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch are due to speak at a major event next week alongside leading critics of climate action, DeSmog can report. The three-day conference is being hosted in London by the All...

Peter Thiel's tech giant is making inroads into the UK

Ramaswamy calls climate change ‘a hoax.’ He’ll be sharing the stage with other climate crisis deniers at an invite-only conference in London.

Why won't the Government tell the public who's attending – and who's being left out in the cold?

Former Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel’s spy-tech firm is the frontrunner for the NHS's biggest ever contract

Freeports have become a focal point in discussions surrounding economic growth and international trade in recent years. The concept of Freeports has…

Our first branch of government in the United States has been paralyzed and thrown into chaos — again — by a small cadre of far-right MAGA members of the House Freedom Caucus. It’s not by fluke o...