Sam Bright, Author at DeSmog
WEBAbout. Sam is DeSmog’s UK Deputy Editor. He was previously the Investigations Editor of Byline Times and an investigative journalist at the BBC. He is the author of two books: Fortress London, and Bullingdon Club Britain.
Adam Barnett, Author at DeSmog
WEBKemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group. By Adam Barnett. on Aug 19, 2024 @ 08:05 PDT. The former business secretary, who is running for Conservative Party leader, has defended net zero U …
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 percent by 2035.
Piñon Dark Horse Fire Reveals How Oil Industry Environmental
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Credit: “Carbon Capture’s Publicly Funded Failure,” Nov. 2023, Oil Change International What many natural gas processing plants are doing, in other words, is essentially rebranding a long-standing way of disposing difficult oil waste into a climate solution. “It looks like acid gas injection to us,” attorneys from the law firm Alston & Bird wrote in a 2008 post about a CCS project in ...
Clare Carlile, Author at DeSmog
WEBClare is a Researcher at Desmog, focusing on the agribusiness sector. Prior to joining the organisation in July 2022, she was Co-Editor and Researcher at Ethical Consumer Magazine, where she specialised in migrant workers’ rights in the food industry. Her work has been published in The Guardian and New Internationalist.
6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025 - DeSmog
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Design: DeSmog. Since 2020, donor networks linked to just six family fortunes have funneled more than $120 million into Project 2025 advisory groups, a DeSmog analysis has found. More than 100 nonprofits led by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has engaged in climate change denial and obstruction for decades, have signed on ...
BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters - DeSmog
WEBAug 22, 2024 · A screenshot of a BBC StoryWorks film, sponsored by Boeing, from its ”Humanising Energy“ series. Credit: BBC. SAFs have been criticised as being environmentally damaging and currently economically unviable. The Advertising Standards Authority this month banned a Virgin Atlantic advert for making the “misleading” claim that it had developed a “100 percent sustainable aviation fuel”.
Ground Flare at Mammoth New Exxon SABIC Plastics Plant …
WEBDec 20, 2021 · This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. “The normal flare plus the BBQ is on,” Elida Castillo, the program director of Chispa Texas, an environmental advocacy group, wrote to me in a text on December 6. It was an update about a new, giant plastics plant built on the line between two small […]
The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
WEBAug 8, 2020 · Now, after all of that, the Bakken oil field appears moving toward terminal decline, with the public poised to cover the bill to clean up the mess caused by its ill-fated boom. In 2008, the U.S. Geological Service (USGS) estimated that the Bakken region held between 3 and 4.3 billion barrels of “ undiscovered, technically recoverable oil ...
55 Tufton Street - DeSmog
WEBMay 24, 2019 · The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), based in 2 Lord North Street, is a free-market think tank and “educational charity” founded in 1955 by the late Sir Anthony Fisher and Lord Harris. 77. Trustees linked to 55 Tufton Street organisations include Lord Vinson, Neil Record, and formerly Michael Hintze. 78 The IEA has received significant ...