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DeSmog1d
What Next for Zia Yusuf – the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s Ringleader?
Zia Yusuf has withdrawn from frontline politics almost as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair ...
DeSmog1d
Shoot First, Then Aim: A Look at Alberta’s Petrostate Separatists
More than 400 people gathered in Red Deer for the launch of a new political party calling for an anti-Canada uprising.
DeSmog2d
Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts
In audio obtained by DeSmog, Bjorn Lomborg told a Fraser Institute event in Vancouver that the technology is way too ...
DeSmog3d
Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds
Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from ...
DeSmog3d
Q&A: Why an Advertising Executive Is Blowing the Whistle on Her Agency’s ‘Greenwashing’
With the help of the legal group Climate Whistleblowers, Zabrodskaya is going public with her story, in the hopes of ...
DeSmog4d
Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections
In the local elections on 1 May, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took control of 10 councils and two regional mayoralties. The party ...
DeSmog8d
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking in the House of Commons. Credit: Sky News Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, ...
DeSmog8d
Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years.
Elon Musk holding a chainsaw overhead onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2025 in February. Credit: Zach Roberts “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” he said, in an April ...
DeSmog9d
Pathways Alliance Lobbied for Policy That Hurts Its CCS Viability
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson previously served on the board of MEG Energy, a Pathways Alliance member. Credit: CPAC / YouTube Canada’s new energy minister Tim Hodgson is getting ...
DeSmog9d
‘Here to Return the Favour’: MAGA Descends on Poland Ahead of Crucial Vote
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, on 27 May 2025, in Jasionka, Poland. Credit: AP Photo / Alex Brandon, Pool / Alamy Donald ...
DeSmog10d
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
A hedge fund manager who owns three right-wing UK media outlets has called for the BBC to be “broken up” and its fact-checking service “shut down”. In his speech, titled ‘Reflections of an Accidental ...
DeSmog11d
Methane Trackers Meet a New Moment
This article by ExxonKnews is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. When Sharon Wilson arrives on site at an oil and gas facility in Texas, it’s the smell ...