Editor’s Pick: Top DeSmog UK Stories of 2022
From rogue Tory backbenchers to North Sea profits for Putin, in the past year the DeSmog UK team has kept tabs on the people,...
Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’
By Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main
On the same day that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office reached a plea agreement with an energy company on...
A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry
I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the...
Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe
In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Named...
Environmental Activists Fight Back as Companies Resort to ‘Lawfare’ to Quash Criticism
In 1999, when Shpresa Loshaj was 19, she fled her home town of Deçan, Kosovo, as a refugee and moved to Canada. When she...
Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits
A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his...
Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight
When Gary Dye, a former engineer with Oregon’s largest gas utility, began blowing the whistle on alleged unethical behavior by his employer, he never...
Gazprom ‘Anticipates’ Further North Sea Gas Exploration Amid Bumper Profits
Gazprom expects to continue exploring for new reserves in the North Sea, having paid itself a £28 million dividend from drilling operations in the...
Heritage Foundation Hosts UK Climate Science Denier at Event Opposing ‘Green Energy’
An influential US think tank has hosted a well-known UK climate science denier at an event attacking what one speaker called Europe’s “socialist” net...
Premier Backs Alberta Separatists Calling UNDRIP a ‘Marxist Agenda’
As concerns grow that a proposed Alberta “Sovereignty Act” could undermine Indigenous rights, Premier Danielle Smith has sought to assure First Nations leaders that...
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