21+ hour, 56+ min ago   (948+ words) 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 since his appointment for previously helping to draft Liz Truss’s infamous…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago   (305+ words) The same agency came under fire two years ago for promoting COP29 host nation Azerbaijan as a climate champion, even as the country was expanding oil and gas production. The previous year, Teneo earned $1.6 million advising the oil-rich United Arab Emirates…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1672+ words) 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 rights groups. The conference, designed to showcase the party’s policies and politicians, will…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1136+ words) A sitting Conservative MP spread climate-related conspiracy theories that could increase the “threat of serious violence” in Canada, according to a secret briefing from the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). As wildfires raged across Canada last month, Cheryl Gallant used…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1686+ words) 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1034+ words) 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 in Clacton…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1582+ words) “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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1613+ words) This story is published in partnership with the National Security Archive. At a private trade group meeting in 2023, one energy analyst said the revised methane rule would be a “major PR headache” for oil and gas companies. “How do we…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (894+ words) A Canadian opinion writer who’s argued in the Toronto Sun and other outlets that politicians should embrace data centres works for a U.S.-based anti-regulation organization with close ties to the AI industry. Jay Goldberg—identified by the Toronto Sun as…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (819+ words) Aberdeen Science Centre has renewed its sponsorship deal with Norwegian oil giant Equinor for another year, following a UK summer of consecutive record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, which scientists have confirmed are fuelled by climate change. The museum announced the…...