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WEB3 days ago · Series: Shining a Light on Big Ag’s Climate Push Series: Big Ag's Climate Push DeSmog re-launches investigative series to track agribusiness’ influence over climate and nature policy in a critical year for decisions on the future of food and farming. DeSmog re-launches investigative series to ...
NextDecade Scraps Carbon Capture Plans for Its Rio Grande LNG …
WEBAug 20, 2024 · The NextDecade Rio Grande LNG terminal won’t have a carbon capture component, the company told federal regulators in a filing Tuesday, walking back the company’s heavily marketed plans to make a “lower carbon intensive LNG project.” “[A]s demonstrated by Rio Grande’s inability to respond to the outstanding data requests, the Project is not sufficiently developed to allow Commission ...
Ned Nikolov - DeSmog
WEBSep 12, 2016 · Photo credit: Energy Live News/YouTube Ned Nikolov Credentials Background Nedialko (Ned) T. Nikolov works as a physical scientist for the U.S. Forest Service. Nikolov’s profile at ResearchGate lists his PhD as in Ecological Modeling. His profile at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service lists his highest education as a Ph.D in Forest Ecology […]
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 ...
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 ...
BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters - DeSmog
WEBon Aug 22, 2024 @ 00:15 PDT. Series: Ad-&-PR-Industry. BBC New Broadcasting House in central London. Credit: Credit: Alexander Svensson (CC-BY-2.0) The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal.
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 …
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 […]
Introducing Matthew Green, DeSmog’s Global Investigations Editor
WEBApr 14, 2022 · DeSmog is excited to welcome Matthew Green as our Global Investigations Editor. Matthew joins DeSmog from Reuters, where he has covered climate and environmental stories for the past four years — with a particular focus on the intersection between the climate crisis, finance, and the energy transition. In 2018, he reported from West Africa, Borneo, […]
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.