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. reports 🧵
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NEW | Biomass Industry Pushes Back Against Europe’s Plans To Protect Woodlands
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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.
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Robert Brulle of Brown U. just published a killer paper on the Global Climate Coalition with brand new internal documents. Here are the original documents on
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Feel so lucky to have got to spend the last few days in Perugia for #IJF22
Massive thanks to for inviting me to speak on behalf of and to the organisers of for putting on the whole amazing event.
Recording here: youtu.be/N3V68f9Womw
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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 $$$.
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Recently surfaced writings of Alex Epstein, a favorite intellectual of the oil industry and GOP politicians, reveal past statements about “inferior” cultures.
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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
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But as reports, Alex Epstein also denigrated non-Western cultures in college writings newly resurfaced by .
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This story by follows 's excellent reporting for . Author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels,” Epstein argues that developing countries should burn more oil, gas, and coal to eliminate “energy poverty.”
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Recently surfaced writings show self-styled "philosopher" and fossil fuel advocate had written about the "superiority" of western culture and blamed Martin Luther King Jr. for an increase in "Black crime"
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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...
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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. 
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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.
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The tabloid failed to mention that Net Zero Watch, which last week called for renewables to be ‘wound down’ completely, was behind the survey.
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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. 🧵
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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.”
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NEW | The Sun’s Pro-Fracking Poll was Paid for by Climate Denial Group
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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.
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In a pilot project last year, ExxonMobil used up to 18 million cubic feet of gas per month to mine bitcoin in North Dakota.
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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.
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NEW | Opinion: Why Rapid Russian Divestment Should Signal An End To Fossil Fuel Finance
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Republished from : “The blowback to this and FERC’s backpedaling is a case study in the fossil fuel industry’s grip on our politics.”
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NEW: Anti-Net Zero MP Craig Mackinlay has endorsed a report calling for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely.
Green Party leader said the report is “an incoherent jumble of climate denialism, fake news and truth-twisting”. 🧵
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Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has called the Net Zero Watch report “an incoherent jumble of climate denialism, fake news and truth-twisting”.
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NEW | Anti-Net Zero MP Backs ‘Laughable’ Report Urging Renewables be ‘Wound Down’
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“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 :
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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”
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It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports.
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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. reports 🧵 desmog.com/2022/02/07/fti
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When it comes to online disinformation, does it make sense to fight fire with fire using paid social media ads?
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The Oil and Gas Industry is Using the War in Ukraine to Profit and Push Its Interests scq.io/ZnOMsAK via
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Oh, Canada… (in the Washington Post print edition this morning)
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TODAY: New briefing in partnership with and reveals that 8 big western fossil fuel companies helped enrich Vladimir Putin's war chest by almost USD 100 billion.
Read the full briefing here >>>
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Can we fight online #disinformation using paid social media ads? dug into a new report from that suggests that social media ads can help reach people who are often targeted by disinfo.
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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."
thanks to for this, and for much more to come
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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:
desmog.com/2022/03/23/oil
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