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Joe Sandler Clarke

@jsandlerclarke.bsky.social
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Journalist. Focus on climate change and human rights. projects.unearthed.greenpeace.org/b…

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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Nothing to show for it” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Zane died when his family home was flooded. His family say he was killed by toxic gas washed out from a former landfill site. They have been repeatedly let down by the British state. Keir Starmer said: "No family should feel that their questions have gone unanswered." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Death of Zane Gbangbola in Chertsey floods to be subject of inquiry
Zane Gbangbola died after the River Thames flooded his home in Chertsey, Surrey, in 2014.
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The government has announced there will be an inquiry into the death of Zane Gbangbola, after a decade of campaigning by his parents. My investigation into the fight to uncover the toxic legacy left by landfill experiments near Zane's home is now free to read. www.endsreport.com/article/1957...
endsreport.com
Buried files, a failed experiment – a toxic legacy? The new testing shedding light on Surrey’s historic landfills
With exclusive access to testing results and new archival research, a new ENDS investigation can reveal elevated concentrations of toxic heavy metals at sites close to historic landfills in Surrey – a...
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I also found buried archival documents that detail controversial landfill experiments near their home and show that sodium cyanide was regularly dumped at landfills across the country until the early 1970s. www.endsreport.com/article/1957...
endsreport.com
Buried files, a failed experiment – a toxic legacy? The new testing shedding light on Surrey’s historic landfills
With exclusive access to testing results and new archival research, a new ENDS investigation can reveal elevated concentrations of toxic heavy metals at sites close to historic landfills in Surrey – a...
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Nicole Lawler and Kye Gbangbola blame toxins from a historic landfill for causing their son's death. My investigation reveals elevated concentrations of toxic elements close to historic landfills in Surrey, including the one behind Kye and Nicole’s home. www.endsreport.com/article/1957...
endsreport.com
Buried files, a failed experiment – a toxic legacy? The new testing shedding light on Surrey’s historic landfills
With exclusive access to testing results and new archival research, a new ENDS investigation can reveal elevated concentrations of toxic heavy metals at sites close to historic landfills in Surrey – a...
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ICYMI: My investigation, based on exclusive scientific testing results and months of work, reveals the toxic legacy of bizarre Government-backed landfill experiments in the 1950s and 60s. www.endsreport.com/article/1957...
endsreport.com
Buried files, a failed experiment – a toxic legacy? The new testing shedding light on Surrey’s historic landfills
With exclusive access to testing results and new archival research, a new ENDS investigation can reveal elevated concentrations of toxic heavy metals at sites close to historic landfills in Surrey – a...
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 21/05/2026
This week’s ECO Chamber on historic landfills ⚡ is live. For this episode, we speak 🎙️ to investigative journalist @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social about the buried histories of landfills in England, and the story of a family fighting for justice. ⬇️
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/04/2026
The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 20/04/2026
The rise in climate pollution from the US is 2025 canceled out the reductions from China, India, Japan, and the EU combined.
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What about Defoe working alongside Harry Redknapp? Would give a much needed vibes injection.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 07/02/2026
Recommended read: Gas flaring has risen in the Niger Delta since oil and gas major Shell sold its assets in the Nigerian “oil hub”, a @climatechangenews.com investigation found. ✍️ @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social Vivian Chime @mcivillini.bsky.social
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Gas flaring soars in Niger Delta post-Shell, afflicting communities
Since the multinational sold its assets in Nigeria’s oil hub, data analysis for Climate Home News shows flaring has risen, harming locals and the climate
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My new investigation shows that while Shell claims to have reduced its greenhouse gas emissions, but it has done this largely by selling polluting assets. At former Shell oil fields in Nigeria, flaring has gone up, causing problems for local people. www.climatechangenews.com/2026/02/05/g...
climatechangenews.com
Gas flaring soars in Niger Delta post-Shell, afflicting communities
Since the multinational sold its assets in Nigeria’s oil hub, data analysis for Climate Home News shows flaring has risen, damaging local residents and the climate
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/02/2026
Did you know air pollution is the top preventable cause of premature death + ill-health in the world today: killing nearly 10 million people per year? And 2/3 of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels? For more surprising & powerful facts on health and climate, follow @maibached.bsky.social
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Opinion | Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? (Published 2022)
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This Bonaire v Netherlands climate ruling is *fascinating*. Also hugely recommend signing up for @isabellakaminski.bsky.social’s newsletter if you have even a passing interest in climate cases, it’s terrific! www.the-wave.net/r/ee9c1bff?m...
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Climate doesn’t care about borders. Nor does climate litigation
When residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire faced the Netherlands in court last October, they had few expectations for what they might achieve.  They had travelled from a place that is particul...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 27/01/2026
When it rains, it now rains more. For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall. And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 12/01/2026
If I was Xabi Alonso I would simply manage Tottenham Hotspur to an era of unfathomable domestic dominance and continental success, but that's just me I guess
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My mum would have been 70 yesterday. She taught me how to cook and through that how to be fully present in the world. I wrote about that and my awkward child chef era here. Thank you for @padraigreidy.bsky.social for providing notes that elevated this piece. unpeeledjournal.com/cooking-with...
unpeeledjournal.com
He Lost His Mother to Cancer. A Son’s Cooking Carries Her Legacy, and Her Heart.
A contributing essay for the Food+Grief Project, a special feature of Unpeeled Journal, where we publish writing, recipes, and resources exploring the connections between food and loss. This month, we...
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Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Venezuelan oil’s flaring intensity, or the ratio of greenhouse gas pollution per barrel of oil produced, is the worst in the world: www.worldbank.org/en/programs/...
Charts showing flaring from oil fields in Russia Iran Iraq US Venezuela Algeria Libya
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Climate injustice: “…in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state…”
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Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few." Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...
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The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back
Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
8,000 illegal waste sites 13 million tons of rubbish No controls on waste dumped sometimes near rivers + in floodplains Burning of waste Little or no policing How criminal dumping of waste became the 'new narcotics' Our latest article, out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
At least 8,000 illegal waste sites in UK, research suggests
Exclusive: Concerns over impact on health and environment, as well as £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/11/2025
It's funny to have to make this case but tbqh we don't make it enough: human efforts to counter fossil fuel use have had *at least some* effect on total greenhouse gas emissions since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, and there's some evidence to back up this position A lil thread 🧵
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a man is talking about being entirely successful .
Alt: a robot is is talking about not being entirely successful .
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
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Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as #Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff - Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
washingtonpost.com
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
📉The voluntary carbon market crashed bc credits didn't do what they claimed. Offsets 2.0 is here, with hard, inventive work on the ground. 🌴A look at the race to control carbon, from under the banana and cacao trees. By Fabiano Masisonnave and me: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
bloomberg.com
Brazil Is Pouring Money Into the Amazon. These Companies Want a Piece.
Startups are rushing in to monetize the COP30 host’s push to preserve the rainforest before it turns into a driver of climate change.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
There is a lot of talk about data centers taking up gas demand in the US. However, it will be LNG exports that take the big chunk. "Feed gas demand from Plaquemines LNG terminal alone could top 4 Bcf/d this winter, roughly equal to the low end of data center growth estimates through 2030."
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Data Center Demand Everywhere, but Not a Drop for Natural Gas to Drink?
Discover the impact of data centers on natural gas demand, with analysts divided on its significance. Learn how East Daley adds 1.3 Bcf/d winter demand and see projections for LNG exports as the prima...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17/11/2025
The 2-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly is still above 1.55°C. Everything will be fine.
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Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NEW: The "Agrizone" at COP30 is supposed to be a showcase for sustainable agriculture 🌳 But its sponsors are powerful agribusiness interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying who have paid for visibility and "image gain" Read more 👇:
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COP30’s agriculture showcase sponsored by agribiz interests linked to deforestation and anti-conservation lobbying
Sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at COP30 will include pesticides giant Bayer, alleged by campaigners to be driving “massive deforestation” on the continent, and a branch of Brazil’s l...
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/11/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
desmog.com
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
If asylum seekers were allowed to work legally when they arrive in the UK, the power of these gangs would be greatly diminished. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally
Undercover reporters were told how easy it was to make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 28/10/2025
Global emissions may fall 10% by 2035 — but scientists say a 60% drop is needed to keep 1.5°C alive.
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UN calls for faster emissions cuts for 2035 as first global estimate disappoints
UNFCCC "calculations" suggest a 10% drop in global emissions, but delays by many countries in submitting NDCs cloud official review of climate pledges
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
But seriously: I'm prepping for a panel on Abundance and climate and going down the rabbit hole of documenting everything so I can cite it, and I'm finding things are SO much worse than I even thought. Did you know that the Charles Koch Foundation was a sponser of Abundance 2024? No, really.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/10/2025
Amazon's big server might be down but that doesn't mean I can't post my charts showing how fundamentally bonkers their energy consumption and associated emissions are :) Fun fact: 2 years ago they stopped sharing their total electrical energy consumption, cool!!! ketanjoshi.co/data-sharing/
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10/09/2025
🚨Last weekend, Reform UK held their party conference in Birmingham, and as expected, it was a magnet to a range of conspiracy theories and wild, fringe ideas. 🧲 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...
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Inside Reform's conference: conspiracy theories galore – HOPE not hate
Walking around Reform UK’s conference on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, one thing was clear: the party is utterly unfit to govern. Most peculiar...
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Reform says it wants to drill in the North Sea so the UK is not dependent on foreign oil. Is that why its climate panel is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a U.S. think tank funded by ExxonMobil? 🤔 www.desmog.com/heartland-in...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 19/08/2025
💥NEW: We can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...
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EXPOSED: Britain First’s “March for Remigration” led by convicted people smuggler
HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migran...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
“Unhinged plastic production is the petrochemical industry’s plan B. They know the world is moving away from fossil fuels” says Panama's Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gomez “They have infiltrated these negotiations, trying to safeguard their profit" #plasticstreaty www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/11/d...
climatechangenews.com
Deadlock in UN plastics talks raises fears of watered-down deal
Panama's climate envoy said his country would reject a weak deal on plastics at the UN talks held in Geneva
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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 07/08/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution A flagship media workshop partnered with an industry group backed by Shell and ExxonMobil. 📝 Raluca Besliu and Aleksandra Pogorzelska
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How Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution
EU grant money was used to fund a media workshop on plastic pollution that was run in partnership with a fossil fuel lobby group, DeSmog can reveal. The event, held in May, came at a crucial time – ju...
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
How can you square an ambition to win the league with having lowest wages to revenue ratio in the league? How do you justify constant ticket price rises and removing senior concessions? Instead you have a tedious and hard to follow abstract conversation about football governance.
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Joe Sandler Clarke @jsandlerclarke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
There are so many questions Spurs would like to ask Levy. It's a shame none of them were asked here. youtube.com/watch?v=MVEg...
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Daniel Levy: Ange, Thomas Frank & The Future of Tottenham | The Overlap Exclusive
YouTube video by The Overlap
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