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WEB3 days ago · Inside the Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson and Project 2025. By Geoff Dembicki. on Sep 9, 2024 @ 09:02 PDT. Clearing the PR Pollution. DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change.
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WEBAug 14, 2024 · Confronting Big Oil at Cannes Lions: The Viral Moment That Exposed the Ad Industry's Complicity in the Climate Crisis. By Tolmeia Gregory. on Jun 19, 2023 @ 16:32 PDT. Climate activist Tolmeia Gregory sparked a social media sensation when she challenged a Shell executive at last year's festival.
Richard Tice - DeSmog
WEBImage credit: Screengrab from BBC. Richard Tice Credentials Background Richard Tice is a multi-millionaire property developer, financier, deputy chairman and MP for Reform UK, having been elected in Boston and Skegness in the July 2024 general election.1Becky Morton. “Farage elected MP for first time as Reform wins four seats,” BBC News, July 5, …
Drax: The UK's 'Carbon Neutral' Biomass Power Plant - DeSmog
WEBBritain’s biggest power plant, Drax in North Yorkshire, produces around 6% of the UK’s electricity through burning biomass. Drax claims to be Europe’s largest decarbonisation project, after pivoting from coal to biomass in the 2010s. In 2021 Drax officially ended its commercial coal generation, but remains the single biggest emitter of ...
Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’
WEBOct 11, 2021 · The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has launched a new anti-net zero campaign to oppose the government’s green policies, a move experts dubbed the “latest tactic” from the “same old climate change deniers”, warning the public not to be “fooled” by the rebrand. The “Net Zero Watch” website was unveiled today ...
Matthew Green, Author at DeSmog
WEBMatthew is global investigations editor at DeSmog, leading coverage of the global climate crisis, energy politics, and the struggles for environmental justice through an international lens. He has previously worked at Reuters and the Financial Times, and writes the Resonant World newsletter exploring connections between the climate crisis and ...
UK Regulator Weighs Greenwashing Allegations Against Latest
WEBAug 14, 2024 · A screenshot from an ad for Shell that is currently being assessed by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority. Credit: Shell. Shell came under fire from climate advocates in March when it announced it would delay a 2030 carbon reduction target until 2050, and scrapped a further target to reduce the carbon intensity of its operations by 45 …
What the Campaign Against a North London Waste Incinerator
WEBDec 15, 2021 · The drizzle thickened over a working-class neighbourhood in northeast London on a cold June evening, as activist Delia Mattis stood waiting for friends, parka hood pulled up against the biting mist, clutching a sack full of campaign leaflets. For the next two hours, the small group walked door to door distributing anti-waste incineration flyers in […]
The Global Climate Coalition Files: How Big Business Funded
WEBApr 25, 2019 · The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — a fossil-fuel backed industry group launched in 1989 as a project of the National Association of Manufacturers — was for decades able to influence the scientific process behind the United Nations climate assessments, using lobbyists and industry-funded scientists to manipulate the …
How U.S. governments could crack down on greenwashing
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Local governments have taken steps to raise awareness about the dangers of fossil fuels in other ways. In 2020, Cambridge, Massachusetts became the first U.S. city to require businesses to put labels on gas pumps disclosing the risks that gasoline, diesel, and ethanol pose to human health and the climate. But a greenwashing law in …
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