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DeSmog @desmog.com · 4h
🔺 NEW 🔺 What does Big Oil want from AI? More oil. Read DeSmog's latest in our Tech vs. Climate series. buff.ly/Ndopcew
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AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.
A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already using AI to boost production.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 5h
🔴 NEW - Fossil Fuel Trade Group Chief Says Approving Rosebank and Jackdaw Would be ‘Climate Leadership’ OEUK chief slammed for ‘laughable’ claim at Labour conference. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Fossil Fuel Trade Group Chief Says Approving Rosebank and Jackdaw Would be ‘Climate Leadership’
LIVERPOOL – The head of the UK’s largest oil and gas trade group has claimed that two proposed North Sea fossil fuel projects should go ahead to show “climate leadership” and help cut emissions to net...
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Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Just published a new investigation on unsustainable farmed fish promoted by influencer chefs 🐟 www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/g... @desmog.com
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Great British Chefs’ Instagram Campaign Accused of ‘Greenwashing’ Unsustainable Farmed Fish
“As with all fish, sourcing sustainably is super important,” a soothing voiceover intones as a sizzling seabass fillet comes into view. “After all,” it continues, “if we don’t eat responsibly sourced ...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 29/09/2026
🔴 NEW - Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference The think tank has received extensive funding from U.S. tech interests. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference
LIVERPOOL – The think tank led by former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has hosted a number of events sponsored by Trump-donating tech firms at this year’s party conference. The Tony Blair Institute...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 29/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Great British Chefs’ Instagram Campaign Accused of ‘Greenwashing’ Unsustainable Farmed Fish 📝 By @brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/g...
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Great British Chefs’ Instagram Campaign Accused of ‘Greenwashing’ Unsustainable Farmed Fish
“As with all fish, sourcing sustainably is super important,” a soothing voiceover intones as a sizzling seabass fillet comes into view. “After all,” it continues, “if we don’t eat responsibly sourced ...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The company behind a proposed Alberta data centre is an American company that donates to key Trump supporters through its political action committee. buff.ly/UCTeV9T
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 25/09/2026
🩸 NEW 🩸 As gas and food prices skyrocket as the climate crisis continues, a new report reveals how the oil and gas industry publicly backed federal methane rules but covertly pushed to “eviscerate” them. Read Desmog's latest. buff.ly/EO1za0F
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How the Oil Industry Is Pushing EPA to 'Effectively Gut' Methane Rules During Affordability and Climate Crises
As House Republicans crafted President Trump’s domestic policy bill last spring, the oil and gas industry watched closely, eyes trained on the fate of one policy in particular: a fee on excess…
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 25/09/2026
❗️ NEW: Kendall Dilling has admitted Canada's largest carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers initially promised. Despite this, he says the project is now only "slightly smaller". buff.ly/zdyqPnq
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Pathways Proponent Claims Carbon Capture Project Only 'Slightly Smaller' Despite Reduction by Half
Oil Sands Alliance's Kendall Dilling confirms that the proposed carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers originally advertised.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/09/2026
🩸NEW🩸 As Suncor faces potential liability for climate deception in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case, DeSmog has uncovered internal documents that show a troubling campaign to challenge the science behind climate change. buff.ly/OcFz3Fn #ClimateTruth #SupremeCourt
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Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/09/2026
🔴 NEW - UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated –Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 22/09/2026
🔥 NEW 🔥 What if today’s disinformation crisis didn’t start with social media? In DeSmog's latest Q&A, Amy Westervelt traces how corporations spent decades shaping the information we consume — and what it will take to clean up the mess. buff.ly/fD089uE
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Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay.…
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Terrific write-up of the book in @desmog.com today! www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/q...
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Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The...
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...
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Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 18/09/2026
🏆️ DeSmog is delighted to share that our work exposing corporate climate denial and delay has won three of this year's Covering Climate Now Awards. Thank you to all our supporters for making our high-impact work possible! 🙏 buff.ly/qG6sqBe
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DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
DeSmog and its partners have won three awards for investigations exposing corporate tactics to delay climate action at the 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog’s global…
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 New🚨 : Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar Amid War in Iran buff.ly/68koodi
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Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar from War in Iran
Campaigners say advertising and PR agencies are “nowhere close” to giving up their oil and gas clients.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 NEW! 🚨 "...a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, and the greenwashing of ad and PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn
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Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/09/2026
"I think very few people working behind the scenes to spin for Big Oil are ideologues [but]a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, & the greenwashing of ad & PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn
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Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: DeSmog looked at the companies behind 33 planned data centres in Alberta and found that less than one third could be data sovereign. buff.ly/SvjCnOH
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Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/09/2026
La France devrait interdire la publicité pour les énergies fossiles dès janvier 2027. Une première mondiale pour un pays. DeSmog révèle les coulisses du lobbying de l'industrie fossile pour "vider l’interdiction de sa substance" buff.ly/gwVBNq9
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Les manœuvres des lobbys pour affaiblir le projet d'interdiction de la publicité pour les énergies fossiles
Le secteur des énergies fossiles, des radios et télévisions s’emploient à affaiblir le projet d’interdiction de la publicité pour les énergies fossiles en France — une première mondiale au niveau…
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🔴 As I revealed, Christopher Harborne’s crypto investments are being boosted by the White House - which has introduced pro-crypto laws that Farage wants to replicate in the UK
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just a reminder that Anthropic's head of "Faith and Philosophy" asked a room full of transatlantic far-right politicians for ethics feedback this summer: www.desmog.com/2026/06/25/a... @desmog.com
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Anthropic Crowdsourced Ethics Feedback at a Far-Right London Confab
Company’s “faith and philosophy partnerships” lead sought “moral voices” for future AI models at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/09/2026
“This whole thing is just a total boondoggle.” That's what one critic said about the EPA's latest push to shift regulatory authority for Class IV wells over to states. But who will make sure our drinking water is safe? Read Sarah Hofmann's latest. buff.ly/jQSW08K #PineHillsStorageHub
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Carbon Capture Is Booming. So Is the Push to Shift Oversight to States
As hundreds of CO2 storage wells move toward development, the EPA is handing more regulatory authority to states — despite concerns about safety and long-term liability.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Students missed 15 million hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds - At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools affected #climatecrisis @desmog.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds
At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished early
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/09/2026
🚨New🚨: In January, France will become the first country to impose nationwide restrictions on fossil fuel ads. We reveal how the oil industry is working to 'hollow out' the new rules. buff.ly/P3MCd9E
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Exclusive: Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France
Fossil fuel companies and broadcasters are working to dilute proposed world-first national restrictions on fossil fuel ads due to come into effect in France at the start of next year. Fifteen…
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/09/2026
This article was published in partnership with The Guardian
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Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds
At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished early
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/09/2026
🔴 NEW - School Students Missed 15 Million Teaching Hours Due to June Heatwave Thousands of schools closed their doors, and a third of all pupils were recorded absent in Wales as temperatures hit 37°C. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @brigitte-whl.bsky.social
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School Students Missed 15 Million Teaching Hours Due to June Heatwave
School pupils in England and Wales lost more than 15 million teaching hours during June’s heatwave, which caused a spike in absences and forced many schools to close their doors or reduce hours over s...
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Media Storm @mediastormpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌩️ NEW EPISODE 🌩️ 👉 Heatwaves & Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda? How did long established climate science become a culture war? How does the news cycle run on fossil fuels? 🗣️ with @thediyora.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social from @desmog.com
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Heatwaves and Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda?
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors. 📝 @desmog.com
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Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW - Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors Farage’s party was last week exposed trying to solicit foreign donations from undercover reporters. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 09/09/2026
🔴 Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network The former Liz Truss ally has been a regular on the pro-Trump speaking circuit. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network
The newly appointed Conservative Party shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has been a regular feature at events linked to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, DeSmog can report. Griffith has been criticised si...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 07/09/2026
Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources 📝 Our investigation published in April...
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Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 04/09/2026
A version of this article was first published by the German investigative outlet @correctiv.org
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 04/09/2026
🔴 NEW: Far Right Win Could ‘Rupture’ Profitable Renewables Push in East Germany – Experts Victory in this weekend’s landmark election in Saxony-Anhalt could see the AfD stall a lucrative wind and solar drive. 📝 By @elenakolb.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/09/04/f...
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Far Right Win Could ‘Rupture’ Profitable Renewables Push in East Germany – Experts
A version of this article was first published by the German investigative outlet CORRECTIV This Sunday, Alternative for Germany (AfD) could assume power for the first time ever in a German state – the...
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Water, water, everywhere? I wrote an explainer for @theleaduk.bsky.social on whether desalination can help the UK's water supply during the climate crisis. national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...
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The Lead Untangles: What is desalination?
And the role it plays in potentially solving the growing water crisis amid our warming climate
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 02/09/2026
🔴 NEW - Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference Nigel Farage’s party is welcoming polluting interests and radical pressure groups to its annual gathering. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference
Corporate titans including Google, Meta, and TikTok will be appearing at Reform UK’s annual conference this week, rubbing shoulders with fossil fuel interests, far-right politicians, and Christian rig...
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thirst trap: will AI solve climate change? (No) I wrote an explainer on data centres’ impact on climate & environment for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...
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The Lead Untangles: AI data centres
They are being built at a rapid rate to handle the explosion in data capacity needed for our modern lives, but what’s the environmental impact?
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 28/08/2026
‼️ NEW: Three Canadian oil executives' holdings increased by over $1B since January, according to a DeSmog analysis buff.ly/i53JRL4
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Canadian Oil Executives’ Stock Holdings Increased by Over $1 Billion Amid War and Wildfires
Executives at Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Suncor, and Imperial Oil saw their personal stock holdings and options skyrocket this year, according to a DeSmog analysis.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/08/2026
Farage 🤝 Harborne Harborne 🤝 Lutnick Lutnick 🤝 Trump www.desmog.com/2026/08/20/tether-ch…
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 24/08/2026
NEW: A secret Canadian intelligence assessment warned about climate conspiracy theories. One Conservative Member of Parliament kept spreading them. buff.ly/nYCCGST
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Canadian Intelligence Warned About Climate Conspiracies. This MP Kept Spreading Them.
As wildfires rage across the country, Cheryl Gallant continues to spread climate misinformation after a CSIS report said her conspiracy theories could increase the “threat of serious violence”.
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Tim Picton @timpicton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pleased to give comments to the comprehensive piece on how there are worrying signs that the policy capture we have seen in the US with crypto is starting to take root in the UK...
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Will ‘regenerative farming’ tackle climate change? I wrote about it for @theleaduk.bsky.social based on the @desmog.com team’s reporting.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 20/08/2026
🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage Has Spoken at 15 Trump-Linked Events Since 2024 Election The Clacton MP has received a platform from a network of MAGA groups that have pushed the president’s agenda in the UK and beyond. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Nigel Farage Has Spoken at 15 Trump-Linked Events Since 2024 Election
Nigel Farage has been accused of “toadying up to Donald Trump” for speaking at more than a dozen events linked to the U.S. president in the past two years. The Reform UK leader – who won a by-election...
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Christopher Harborne, Reform’s biggest donor, and Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick share a financial interest in the crypto giant Tether. Meanwhile, Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted the firm 👇🏻
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted Tether, a firm that issues the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. Lutnick’s family owns Cantor Fitzgerald, which holds […]
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 20/08/2026
🔴 NEW - Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances Trump’s commerce chief has been promoting the business interests of Farage’s main donor. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted Tether, a firm that issues the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. Lutnick’s family owns Cantor Fitzgerald, which holds […]
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 19/08/2026
New documents detail the oil and gas industry’s attempts to loosen federal methane pollution reporting requirements while simultaneously urging the U.S. EPA to preserve the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which informs climate policy from local to global levels. Why? Dive in buff.ly/pznk7HE
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Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data
New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 19/08/2026
🔴 What has Reform UK Said About Climate Change? Nigel Farage’s party has a long history of rejecting basic climate science. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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What has Reform UK Said About Climate Change?
“Climate change has always happened. It always will.” That was the remark made by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice on Monday about this summer’s record heatwaves, which have caused wildfires and droughts across the country. The Boston and Skegness MP added: “When it’s a bit warm, let’s enjoy it. And if it means that […]
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 18/08/2026
The Toronto Sun has published opinion pieces promoting AI data centres. What isn't disclosed to readers? The columnist works for a group that has received funding from a Big Tech lobby group. buff.ly/8IIyGFV
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Canadian Columnist Boosting Data Centres Has Ties to AI Industry
Toronto Sun opinion writer Jay Goldberg works for a group that backs Trump’s AI strategy and has received funding from a Big Tech lobbying firm.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 17/08/2026
"This partnership shows how fossil fuel giants seek to buy social credibility while continuing to fuel the climate crisis." — Scottish Greens MSP for North East Scotland, Maggie Chapman. Ellen Ormesher reports for DeSmog.
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Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms
Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: Mark Carney's government recently announced a national electricity strategy, but it is undermined by Carney's support for gas-burning data centres. Read Mitchell Anderson's analysis: buff.ly/4RQ0FYb
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Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 13/08/2026
"This partnership shows how fossil fuel giants seek to buy social credibility while continuing to fuel the climate crisis." — Scottish Greens MSP for North East Scotland, Maggie Chapman. Ellen Ormesher reports for DeSmog.
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Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms
Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.
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