EXCLUSIVE: A 2015 slideshow from FTI Consulting offers a rare glimpse at the services PR firms market to fossil fuel companies – like “discrediting” scientific studies and “debunking” documentaries.
SCOOP | Leaked documents shared with DeSmog show that wood-burning power plant Drax is at the heart of lobby efforts to water down EU sustainability criteria...🧵
Over the weekend, 16 people were arrested after trying to block the entrance to the Grant Town Power Plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Manchin’s company.
Penguin Random House just sent us a publicity email promoting this book on why we need to consume more fossil fuels.
If you wonder why climate change doesn't get dealt with, it's in part because prestigious mainstream publishers push climate denial for $$$.
Recently surfaced writings of Alex Epstein, a favorite intellectual of the oil industry and GOP politicians, reveal past statements about “inferior” cultures.
Here is what Epstein wrote about MLK in 2000. When asked, he largely agreed with his old statements, although he sought to explain some of the arguments that he made when he was younger. But he added that his views have evolved on King.
Meanwhile, it is important to note that the industry-backed campaign to promote fossil fuels as the answer to energy poverty around the world is an intentional PR strategy, e.g., used by coal giant Peabody in 2014 to defeat proposed EPA regulations
. Author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels,” Epstein argues that developing countries should burn more oil, gas, and coal to eliminate “energy poverty.”
It was so obvious when the Sun ran this story this morning (unusual byline for an energy story; no source for the polling) that this would be the inevitable outcome.
Shameless. But the Sun really should be better than this. They have been used...
NEW: The Sun’s Pro-Fracking Poll was Paid for by Climate Denial Group
The tabloid's coverage this week does not mention that Net Zero Watch, which has just called for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely, was behind the survey. https://desmog.com/2022/04/06/the-suns-pro-fracking-poll-was-paid-for-by-climate-denial-group/…
Stella Levantesi's book “I bugiardi del clima” (Climate Liars) investigates #ClimateChange denial history and obstruction tactics to #ClimateAction. She's the author of "Gaslit", a DeSmog column that navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation.
NEW: The Sun’s Pro-Fracking Poll was Paid for by Climate Denial Group
The tabloid's coverage this week does not mention that Net Zero Watch, which has just called for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely, was behind the survey. 🧵
The oil giant’s massive plan to drill in Guyana’s waters comes as the UN Secretary General warns of fossil fuels as a “blight on investment portfolios.”
Louisiana regulator extends comment period for permit application for another LNG export project on the Gulf Coast after contentious public hearing, but does little to inform the public of the extension.
The conflict in Ukraine and the rush to divest from Russian companies must set a precedent for responding to all fossil-fuel funded conflicts, argues divestment campaigner Rob Noyes.
“Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” and they did! Extraordinary work mapping the ties between anti-green politicians, climate denial groups and the backers of “hard” Brexit from
The claims stem from an unsubstantiated remark made in 2014 by the then NATO general secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, that Russia had “actively engaged” with environmental groups opposing shale gas “to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas”
A 2015 slideshow from FTI Consulting offers a rare glimpse at the services PR firms market to fossil fuel companies – like “discrediting” scientific studies and “debunking” documentaries.
This is an important piece of writing, on the intersection of Putin's war and oil and gas: "Fossil fuel has become a weapon of mass destruction."
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My latest #Gaslit column on @DeSmog is online! It deals with the fossil fuel industry's role in the current crisis & how it is using the war in Ukraine to profit & push its interests through "peace-washing", the "patriotic argument" & other strategies:
https://desmog.com/2022/03/23/oil-gas-propaganda-war-ukraine-profiteering-climate-change/…