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Read time: 14 minsIn this first of our new series 'Just Transition, from Fossil Fuels to Environmental Justice', we look at the history of...
Back Us to Keep Reporting from the Frontline of the Climate Crisis
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Fracking Company Cuadrilla Breached Environmental Regulations Seven Times in 10 Months
Read time: 13 minsShale gas exploration company Cuadrilla has breached environmental permits multiple times and failed to disclose full details of technical issues at...
This 1980 Shell Chemical Company Publication Outlines Plans to Create ‘Grassroots’ Campaigns
Read time: 5 minsOriginally posted on Climate Files.
This 1980 edition of TREND, a bimonthly Shell Chemical Company (Shell) publication, featured a series of articles...
Campaigners File for Court Case Against Banks Group Over Protection of Great Crested Newts...
Read time: 3 minsA coal mining company in County Durham is facing legal action over its treatment of protected species at the UK’s newest...
‘This is What People Power Looks Like’ — A Fracking Campaigner’s Account of the...
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It’s nearly 11 o’clock and people are arriving in droves at Maple Farm. Cars are...
UK Told to Negotiate Unique ‘Creative’ Arrangement with EU on Climate and Energy Post...
Read time: 6 minsThe UK has to negotiate its own bespoke arrangement on climate change and energy with the European Union after Brexit because...
Judicial Office Launches Investigation into Complaint over Fracking Judge with Alleged Oil and Gas...
Read time: 6 minsAn investigation has been launched into allegations the judge who handed three fracking protesters “manifestly excessive” jail sentences has family ties...
Government Meets Fracking Industry: Redacted Notes Show Energy Minister Claire Perry’s Vision For ‘Success’
Read time: 7 minsBy Ruth Hayhurst, Drill or Drop
Several shale gas wells in production would be seen as success by the government, according to recently...
Shell Ends Corporate Partnership with National Gallery
Read time: 4 minsShell is ending its corporate partnership with the National Gallery after a decade, emails seen by DeSmog UK reveal.
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