Aug 14, 2024 · Charles Koch in 2019. Credit: Wikipedia Koch’s largest donations to Project 2025 groups since 2020 included $3.8 million to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a climate-change-denying nonprofit with close links to both the Heritage Foundation and the Trump administration. In 2018, Trump tapped Brooke Rollins, TPPF’s CEO since 2003, for a post at the Office of American Innovation ...

Dec 23, 2024 · In one fracking wastewater pipeline failure that occurred in 2022, 18,000 gallons of waste spilled from a pipeline operated by an oil and gas company called Seneca Resources and into a wooded landscape in Cameron County, in north-central Pennsylvania, contaminating the water well of John Rosenberger, a retired state trooper, and his wife, Paige.

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

Dec 18, 2024 · By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.

May 17, 2024 · Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has voted against the environment and climate nearly 400 times during his 20-year career as a Member of Parliament, according to House of Commons voting records analyzed by DeSmog.. That includes voting “nay” to bills crafted to hold mining companies accountable for environmental damage, move Canada closer towards achieving its climate targets ...

Dec 20, 2024 · British Columbia just delivered a master class in clean energy deployment. Premier David Eby just announced nine new wind generating projects totaling 5,000 gigawatt hours of new capacity that will be 50 percent Indigenous-owned and generate up to $6 billion in private sector investment.. BC Hydro negotiated profitable power-buying agreements with independent proponents so public money is not ...

May 30, 2024 · Emily is a contributing editor at DeSmog, working with the Ad & PR Project as well as on global investigations. She has reported on environmental and climate design, justice, policy, politics, science and technology for Drilled, Grist, Popular Science, Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting, The Guardian and other publications.

May 20, 2024 · A hydrogen-powered car. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In addition to these obstacles to the likelihood of genuinely “net-zero hydrogen” becoming a reality, Air Products and other hydrogen producers have a potentially more significant problem of possible limited consumer demand.

Feb 3, 2025 · Emily is a contributing editor at DeSmog, working with the Ad & PR Project as well as on global investigations. She has reported on environmental and climate design, justice, policy, politics, science and technology for Drilled, Grist, Popular Science, Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting, The Guardian and other publications. Emily is a co-founder of Women Do News, a WikiProject raising ...

Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.