Sep 19, 2024 · An oil platform in the North Sea. Credit: Erik Christensen (CC BY-SA 3.0) OSPAR records also show that in 2022, roughly 560,000 tonnes of chemicals were used by the offshore oil and gas industry, and 181,000 tonnes were intentionally discharged into the Northeast Atlantic, with most going into the North Sea.

Jan 22, 2025 · A leading U.S. climate science denial group has been attempting to scupper major EU climate reforms by forging alliances with far-right figures, DeSmog and The Guardian can reveal.. The Heartland Institute, which has for decades been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, claims that it worked with politicians in Austria and Hungary in an attempt to ...

Nov 19, 2024 · The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon pollution “outrageous” and says that the influential climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg is a “friend.”. Wright is chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, a Colorado-based fracking company.

Jan 14, 2025 · Conservative leader and presumptive prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre hasn’t articulated specific policies so much as rhyming slogans like “axe the tax” and “spike the hike.” With the governing Liberal party in disarray and Conservatives leading the polls by almost 25 percent, Canadians need to know how Poilievre would lead rather than the opposition attack dog role he has ...

Dec 16, 2024 · Nisga’a member Richard Mercer holds a petition to halt the Ksi Lisims project. Credit: Richard Mercer We ‘will take this to court’ Richard Mercer, a Nisga’a member who lives in the community of New Aiyansh (Gitlax̱t’aamiks), home to the Nisga’a Lisims Government, is adamant that many Nisga’a feel left out of the consultation and decision-making process.

Jan 27, 2025 · An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly carrying out a hack-and-leak operation commissioned on behalf of ExxonMobil is fighting against his extradition to a Brooklyn, NY, detention center.. During a packed hearing last week at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court attended by DeSmog, lawyers for Amit Forlit used a legal strategy that one climate ...

Jan 2, 2025 · This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.. The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Russia has been spreading climate disinformation in Poland as part of a “long-term cognitive war” to sow division. This is according to a major new report by Poland’s military counterintelligence service, which reviewed over 2,000 unclassified and classified documents from 2004 through to 2024. “The conclusions are alarming,” said the commission of 11 independent experts […]

6 days ago · DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change.

Sep 25, 2024 · Despite a slight reduction in overall emissions last year, Ireland is still “well off track” in meeting its EU and national climate targets for 2030, according to its Environmental Protection Agency – in large part due to the methane from Ireland’s unchecked dairy production. The agriculture sector was responsible for over a third …