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August 9, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Racism, Discrimination, and Big Oil

    Message From the EditorThis summer America has been reckoning with its failure to address systemic racism, with many organizations posting statements about being anti-racist and standing in solidarity with Black people. While the oil and gas industry ha…

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August 2, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Trump’s Permian Bluster Ignores Oil’s Boom-to-Bust Reality

    Message From the EditorPresident Trump visited the Permian oil patch this week for a campaign fundraiser, and provided a rosy depiction of the status of the oil and gas industry in Texas. “We’re Okay Now. We’re Back. We’re Back,” Trump insisted, despite…

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July 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM

We Found a Culture of Guns and Paranoia in the Oil Patch

    Message From the EditorMore than a year ago, investigative journalist Justin Nobel came to DeSmog with a tip from a whiste-blower that led us to the Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants. This week, we published the investig…

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July 19, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Science Denial in Full Bloom

    Message From the EditorLike much of the U.S., even as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Louisiana, science denial has been prominently on display.That’s been especially visible in the anti-mask sentiment dominating conservative circles, with some leade…

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July 12, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Will DAPL Shut Down or Not?

    Message From the EditorIn a big week for major pipeline decisions, Energy Transfer said, “We are not shutting in the line,” after a judge ordered the Dakota Access owner to stop the flow of oil by August 5. The decision came in a lawsuit from the Standi…

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June 28, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Big Oil’s Getting Sued for its Climate Denial

    Message From the EditorThis past week, the attorneys general in Washington, D.C. and Minnesota both sued the oil industry for allegedly misleading consumers with its decades-long climate disinformation campaigns. Exxon, Koch, and the American Petroleum …

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June 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM

The Huge Subsidy Big Oil Doesn’t Talk About

    Message From the EditorThose who have received oil and gas industry funding like to attack federal incentives for renewable energy, like the wind energy production tax credit. But for over two decades, the oil and gas industry received an estimated $10 …

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June 16, 2020 at 12:00 PM

Environmental racism is still racism

    Message From the EditorIn recent weeks, a grassroots movement protesting systemic racism has erupted across the U.S. and abroad. In New Orleans, Julie Dermansky’s powerful photos and reporting revealed activists connecting environmental racism and polic…

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May 22, 2020 at 1:30 PM

Climate deniers still arguing CO2 is beneficial

    Message From the EditorIn January, a trio of climate science deniers with ties to fossil fuel funding published a flawed paper claiming that models of the social cost of carbon pollution are underestimating CO2’s impact on plants and that carbon polluti…

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May 10, 2020 at 1:00 PM

This Pandemic Protest Threat Canceled a Climate Policy Vote

    Message From the EditorEric Hofmann, a gas industry union leader, opposes San Luis Obispo, California’s proposal to switch from natural gas to electricity in new buildings. Hofmann is also the board chair of a “sleazy Astroturf group” with funding ties …

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May 2, 2020 at 2:00 PM

The Oil Industry's Radioactive Secret

    Message From the EditorThe health and safety of key workers is at the forefront of our minds right now, including how they often put themselves in harm’s way and what can happen when it goes wrong. Justin Nobel's investigation of a former Shell oilfield…

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April 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM

Climate denial meets COVIDenial in a big way

    Message From the EditorSince March, DeSmog has been tracking the overlapping cast of characters who have long attacked climate science and are now spreading COVID misinformation, touting false cures, ginning up conspiracy theories, and fomenting attacks…

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April 18, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Remember the millions marching for climate action?

    Message From the EditorDo you remember last September? The international grassroots momentum for climate action was unprecedented. DeSmog was covering the climate strikes and United Nations meetings from the ground and we were joined by hundreds of othe…

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April 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM

Pipeline Progress in a Pandemic

    Message From the EditorFrom the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota to the Mariner East complex in Pennsylvania to the Keystone XL coming down from Canada, Sharon Kelly’s been tracking developments in pipeline progress amid the pandemic that you migh…

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April 5, 2020 at 1:00 PM

Oil and Gas Industry Infighting

    Message From the EditorAcross the globe, fossil fuel interests have been especially active lobbying for financial help and deregulation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from UK think tank InfluenceMap. But the requests from o…

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March 29, 2020 at 1:00 PM

“Our people aren’t prepared for a pandemic.”

    Message From the EditorAs the coronavirus pandemic races across the U.S., Julie Dermansky details what it’s like for a vulnerable Cancer Alley community with a history of respiratory problems to live in the shadow of both Louisiana’s polluting industry …

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March 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM

COVID-19 and Climate Deniers

    Message From the EditorThere’s a lot of misinformation flying around about the coronavirus pandemic and the risks it poses. And as Sharon Kelly has found, some of that is coming from groups with a history of climate science denial.Just before COVID-19 c…

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March 15, 2020 at 1:00 PM

The Economic Perils of Relying on Fracking

    Message From the EditorIt’s been a wild week. A Saudi-Russia price dispute, on top of impacts from the novel coronavirus, has sent oil prices plummeting and financially troubled U.S. shale companies scrambling. Sharon Kelly breaks down how this turmoil …

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March 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM

Time to Talk Fracking and Fraud

    Message From the EditorThis week, Justin Mikulka explores the financial mismatch between the sunny forecasts shale oil and gas companies have been selling to investors and the stormy losses they’ve been serving in reality. Find out the ways fracking fir…

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March 1, 2020 at 2:00 PM

LNG Delays and Fracking Fallout

    Message From the EditorThis week federal regulators took the highly unusual step of delaying a decision on permits for Jordan Cove LNG, a major liquefied natural gas export terminal proposed in Oregon, after a string of permit denials from the state. Th…

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February 16, 2020 at 2:00 PM

The Toxic Legacy of Century-old Oil Wells

    Message From the EditorLong-plagued by strange odors and illnesses, Los Angeles residents found century-old oil wells leaking toxic gases hidden beneath their homes. Read our investigation finding that the state of California lagged behind in sealing th…

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February 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Favors, Sponsorships, and a $10 Billion Fossil Fuel Project

    Message From the EditorRequests for thousands of dollars in sponsorships. A favor for a child’s project. And an ongoing sense of coziness between a company seeking to build a $10 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and pipeline and the l…

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January 31, 2020 at 9:00 PM

Banks Warn of ‘Green Swan’ Financial Disasters

    Message From the EditorThis week Nick Cunningham reports that the Bank for International Settlements, aka the central bank for central banks, has warned that the climate crisis will cause “green swan” events, or sudden and major financial disasters, and…

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January 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM

DeSmog: Big Oil Knew About Radioactivity Risks in 1982

    Message From the EditorThis week, DeSmog reporter Justin Nobel published a major new investigative report at Rolling Stone that delves deep into the risks that the oil and gas industry’s waste — much of it radioactive — poses to the industry’s own worke…

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January 17, 2020 at 10:00 PM

Climate Deniers on YouTube

    Message From the EditorSilicon Valley likes to talk up its efforts to crack down on the misinformation being spread across its platforms, but as DeSmog’s Dana Drugmand reported this week, global activist NGO Avaaz has found Google-owned YouTube selling …

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January 11, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Climate Deniers’ Australian Fire Conspiracy Theories

    Message From the EditorConfronted with a drought-ridden Australian continent ablaze (as climate models predicted), climate science deniers have resorted to spreading discredited conspiracy theories to distract from the fires’ climate connection. While t…

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December 30, 2019 at 10:01 PM

Power us into the next decade

    Psst, reader: If you were thinking about (but have been procrastinating) giving to DeSmog this year, you’ve still got time. But not much! Don’t delay: Please donate $5, $10, $25, or whatever you can right now to power DeSmog into the next decade. Ye…

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December 27, 2019 at 10:00 PM

Even climate science deniers can’t deny this

    Hi there, Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated to support DeSmog’s fearless research and reporting!  Even those people featured in our Climate Disinformation Database can attest to the quality of our work:  “Whatever your bias, I am …

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December 22, 2019 at 10:00 PM

[Have you seen this?] We’re exposing climate denial and delay

    Hello reader, Wow, we can’t believe how many of you have already shown your generous support for DeSmog! But for those who missed our email (below): There’s still time to donate $20 or whatever you can to support DeSmog’s work exposing the purveyors …

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December 21, 2019 at 3:39 PM

Fracking the ‘carbon bomb’

    Message From the EditorJust after world leaders were meeting in Madrid to (unsuccessfully) negotiate more ambitious climate action, oil companies were pressuring Argentina’s government to offer even more incentives to drill and frack in a new shale basi…

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December 17, 2019 at 10:00 PM

We’re exposing climate denial and delay

Support Us Today       Dear reader, Through our research and reporting, DeSmog has documented the coordinated network of funders, think tanks, and front groups working to undermine climate action and attack courageous truth-tellers like Swed…

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December 14, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Industry’s Climate Denial: ‘I don't even buy it myself’

    Message From the EditorThis week, Sharon Kelly reports that climate science denial is still being pushed at a shale gas pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh. But even an industry lawyer was questioning how long that approach will work with the pub…

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December 10, 2019 at 11:00 PM

[Did you see this?] DeSmog’s Climate Denial Reporting Turns Up in Unexpected Places

    Hey,Just in case you missed it, I wanted to send a quick reminder about this message (below) we sent you last week.Donate now to join the community of people like you who have already supported DeSmog in 2019.We’re dedicated to independent journalism in …

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December 6, 2019 at 10:00 PM

Revealing #ExxonKnew’s Next Chapter

    Message From the EditorThis week DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center released a trove of historical documents from Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil, that sheds new light on the two oil giants’ climate science and policy history.This new…

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December 3, 2019 at 9:00 PM

DeSmog’s Climate Denial Reporting Turns Up in Unexpected Places

Support Us Today       Dear reader,For 13 years, DeSmog has been exposing the people and organizations who create obstacles to climate action and a clean energy future. We do that both in our pull-no-punches investigative reporting, and our ex…

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November 23, 2019 at 1:00 PM

A Climate Denial ‘Scandal’ That Hasn’t Aged Well

    Message From the Editor It was this past week in 2009 that an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the UK. It was meant to be the hack that brought down climate science. But it made the…

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November 16, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Another surprising player in climate denial

    Message From the Editor Lobbying by Koch Industries is up by nearly 20 percent compared to this time last year, hitting $9.1 million. What is this owner of oil refineries worried about? The Green New Deal, clean car standards, and the electric car tax cr…

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November 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM

What Exxon’s Trial Reveals

    Message From the Editor Recently, legal shots have been fired en masse against the oil industry over climate change. As former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson took the stand in New York’s case against the oil giant, clues about how the industry will be defending…

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November 2, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Fossil Fuels Are Behind Another ‘Highly Misleading’ PR Move

    Message From the EditorIn recent weeks, the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive messaging has been put under the microscope, most obviously with New York taking ExxonMobil to trial over climate fraud and Massachusetts announcing another lawsuit over the oil…

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October 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Have You Seen These New Natural Gas Ads?

    Message From the EditorThe American Petroleum Institute (API), the nation’s largest oil and gas trade association, has a new ad campaign, rolled out on TV, social media, billboards, and airports. Those ads clearly point to the industry going all in on na…

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October 5, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Another Whistle-blower Has Come Forward

    Message From the Editor In August, DeSmog revealed that North Dakota regulators were downplaying the size of an oil and gas industry spill which a whistle-blower showed was estimated at 11 million gallons — the size of the Exxon Valdez. And in the wake o…

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September 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM

Well, That Was a Little Anticlimactic

    Message From the EditorWell, that was a little anticlimactic. After an estimated 4 million people took to the streets during last week’s historic climate strikes, world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Monday for a Climate Action Summit that was…

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September 21, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Are We Still Sleepwalking Toward Disaster?

    Message From the Editor“Instead of sleepwalking us toward disaster, the U.S. news media need to remember their Paul Revere responsibilities — to awaken, inform, and rouse the people to action,” on climate change, wrote Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope in an…

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September 14, 2019 at 12:00 PM

This Fracked Gas Well Has Been Burning 2 Weeks

    Message From the EditorAs the Democratic presidential candidates were gathering for a debate in Houston on Thursday, Greenpeace activists were rappelling off a bridge over the city’s ship channel, blocking vessel traffic all the way to Galveston. Their a…

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September 6, 2019 at 11:00 PM

From Maple Syrup Festivals to Plastics Plants

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Message From the Editor What happens when a small Pennsylvania conservation district goes from running a maple syrup festival to permitting fossil fuel pipelines feedi…

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August 24, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Hiding a Spill Larger Than Exxon Valdez?

    Message From the EditorIn 2015, North Dakota regulators officially reported a spill from a gas processing plant as just 10 gallons.This week, however, journalist Justin Nobel reveals evidence from a whistle-blower that shows the natural gas condensate sp…

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August 17, 2019 at 12:02 PM

The Ever-Expanding Kochland

    Message From the EditorThis week, Sharon Kelly reviews Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, which probes into the business that not only funds the Koch political machine, but also…

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August 17, 2019 at 4:55 AM

Support Independent Journalism: Become a Monthly DeSmog Donor

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward With a 13 year history of hard-hitting investigations, an ever-growing Climate Disinformation Database, and timely stories on climate and ener…

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August 10, 2019 at 12:00 PM

All About the Koch Brothers

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Message From the Editor This week was all about the Kochs. Drawing from a major new archive on the fossil fuel billionaire Koch brothers, Sharon Kelly explains how it…

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August 7, 2019 at 1:00 PM

Fracking's Dirty Water Problem

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Message From the Editor Fracking for oil and gas has a double-pronged water problem, as Justin Mikulka points out. It requires injecting a lot of freshwater — often p…

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