Can I say (and not just because I’m one of the editors) - @desmog.com has been on the right side of history on climate change for decades, taking on significant legal risk to expose Big Oil’s allies. And we’re gonna keep on doing it.
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Meanwhile, look at the extreme discordance and dissonance of stories on this news page in the same edition...
This is the new climate obstruction. It doesn’t loudly deny climate change. It simply ignores it, while convincing people that every solution is more corrupt, dangerous, and destructive than the fossil fuels it would replace.
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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🔴 NEW - Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform Nigel Farage’s donors include Mayfair club owners, fox hunt masters, and the landed gentry. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social
Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform
On 7 June, Nigel Farage announced that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton amid the political furore caused by his £5 million undeclared gift from crypto billionaire and major Reform UK donor Chris...
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++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
🔴 NEW 🔴 Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...
Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency
Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...
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🔴 NEW: Northern Ireland Turned Into ‘Sacrifice Zone’ to Feed UK’s Appetite for Meat Nearly two thirds of country’s pig & poultry farms leach polluting manure into lough supplying half region’s drinking water, latest research finds. 📝 @shaunacorr.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/07/08/n...
Northern Ireland Turned Into 'Sacrifice Zone’ to Feed UK’s Appetite for Meat, New Report Finds
A version of this article also appeared on investigative site The Detail Northern Ireland’s largest source of drinking water is besieged by toxic pollution linked to a government drive to accelerate p...
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Tomorrow (Wednesday July 8) 3pm ET @desmog.com 20th Anniversary!
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last mo.Honored to be participating in @desmog.com 20th anniversary event on July 8🎂. I'll be joining @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @jimhoggan.bsky.social in a discussion of DeSmog's legacy of two decades of speaking truth to power and pushing back on climate deniers and climate denial: luma.com/snaz4qbo
🔴 NEW - Paul Marshall ‘Cashing in on Climate Chaos’ After Leap in Fossil Fuel Investments, Critics Say The GB News co-owner’s hedge fund has multiplied its oil and gas holdings. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Paul Marshall ‘Cashing in on Climate Chaos’ After Leap in Fossil Fuel Investments, Critics Say
The hedge fund run by GB News co-owner Paul Marshall almost tripled its investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to $2.8 billion (£2.1 billion), DeSmog and The Guardian can re...
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Seafood industry giants failing to tackle pollution, new study finds www.desmog.com/2026/07/01/s... ✍️@brigitte-whl.bsky.social
Seafood industry giants failing to tackle pollution, new study finds
The world’s largest seafood and aquaculture firms are failing to combat waste, and fall short on fish welfare, according to a new benchmarking assessment. A first-ever seafood index, which was launche...
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🔴 New series: Pigs, Poultry, and Pollution: Investigating Intensive Agriculture For the next 9 months, @phoebecooke.bsky.social and I will look at impacts of Europe's mega-farm expansion, from links to cancer to fish deaths, for @desmog.com We would love your tips! www.desmog.com/pigs-poultry...
Pigs, Poultry, and Pollution: Investigating Intensive Agriculture
Pollution from intensive animal farms is seeping into our rivers, air, and seas. Linked to everything from cancer to mass fish deaths, these pollutants damage the environment and human health. In thi...
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🟢 New: Denmark’s ‘pig election’ prompts drinking water crackdown. Will Europe follow suit? 🗣️ Quotes from @juttapaulus.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu Stiig Markager & @jorgs.bsky.social Full story w/ @clarecarlile.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social on @desmog.com here: tinyurl.com/4trv5k65👇
Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’ Prompts Drinking Water Crackdown. Will Europe Follow Suit?
Denmark is set to radically overhaul its drinking water policy as part of a raft of sweeping reforms to the country’s livestock industry. In a nation with more pigs per capita than anywhere else in th...
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🔴 NEW - Cherie Blair’s Charity Received £3.6 million from ExxonMobil The oil major has provided a significant chunk of the foundation’s income. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Cherie Blair’s Charity Received £3.6 million from ExxonMobil
A charity set up by Cherie Blair has received more than £3.6 million from U.S. fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil, DeSmog can reveal. The eponymous Cherie Blair Foundation for Women was founded in 2008 – pr...
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🔴 NEW - Zia Yusuf Cosying Up to Group Behind ‘Authoritarian’ Project 2025 Agenda Reform has been chasing even closer ties to Trump’s allies. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Zia Yusuf Cosying Up to Group Behind ‘Authoritarian’ Project 2025 Agenda
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the “extreme” ‘Project 2025’ playbook for Donald Trump’s second term. Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesper...
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"It's a bit of a scam." - KTM employee caught on camera. Props to @hajmedd.bsky.social, @laurapaquemar.bsky.social, Gabriel Bourdon-Fattal, and many others for the year of digging to make this happen. My latest for DeSmog, in partnership w/ @lemonde.fr @spiegel.de @elpais.com + more below!
DeSmog@desmog.com · 2mo ago🔴 NEW: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’ In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution. 📝By @hajmedd.bsky.social & @tjjordan.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/05/26/e...
🔴 NEW: Motorcycle giant KTM systematically bypassing laws to limit pollution and noise w/ modification of its off-road ‘Enduro’ models Investigation led by @climatewhistles.bsky.social w/ 10 media partners. @desmog.com write-up by @hajmedd.bsky.social & @tjjordan.bsky.social here:
Exclusive: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions ‘Scam’
Austrian motorcycle giant KTM is systematically bypassing laws designed to limit pollution and noise, it can be revealed. During a year-long investigation, undercover reporters visited 15 trade shows ...
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🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
A close ally of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has helped to launch the central European offshoot of a U.S. climate denial group alongside far-right figures. Lois Perry – executive director of Heartlan...
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🔴 How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy? Farage’s party has shown over the last year that it will attempt to block and reverse clean energy initiatives in its new councils. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy?
During the 2025 local elections, Reform UK campaigned for the introduction of a “DOGE for every local authority” – a special unit modelled on billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficien...
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🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne
Nigel Farage’s income since being elected MP has hit £2m, analysis shows
Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024
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🚨ANOTHER #CAP SCANDAL: EU taxpayers paid €71m in farm subsidies to UAE royalty, finds @desmog.com👑 It's not a loophole, it’s how the CAP works... more land means more money💸 The EU Commission's plans could change this but powerful lobbies are pushing back⤵️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
UAE’s ruling royal family benefits from more than €71m in EU farming subsidies
Al Nahyans’ control over farmland in Europe has meant they receive proportion of payments to farms
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The UAE’s ruling royal family banked more than €71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. ✏️ Latest for @desmog.com @theguardian.com @eldiario.es G4Media www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
🔴 NEW: Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds 📝 By @clarecarlile.bsky.social @polpareja.bsky.social & Alina Mihai A collaboration with @theguardian.com @eldiario.es & G4Media www.desmog.com/2026/05/06/g...
Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds
The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-border investigation, shared with The Guardian, f...
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🔴 NEW - Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’. 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
Senior executives, directors, and major investors from the world’s largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth more than $66 million (£49 million) during price hikes linked to the Ir...
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🚨New🚨: DeSmog analysis reveals that British ad giant WPP has helped oil majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP spend an estimated $1 billion on ads since the 2015 Paris climate accord, significantly more than its U.S. rivals. www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/r...
Revealed: British Ad Giant’s Billion-Dollar Greenwash of U.S. Oil Industry
British advertising conglomerate WPP has helped oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP spend an estimated $1 billion on ads in the United States since the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle…
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⚠️ Nouvelles preuves de la désinformation organisée en ligne pour freiner la transition énergétique www.politico.eu/article/un-r... Cécile Marchand et @alphoenix.bsky.social ont enquêté pour @politico.eu et @DeSmog sur une campagne coordonnée de désinformation contre les pompes à chaleur ⤵️
Un réseau organisé dissémine sa propagande contre les pompes à chaleur sur Facebook
Coûteuses, bruyantes, inefficaces : un réseau de groupes Facebook coordonnés multiplie la désinformation sur les pompes à chaleur pour mieux promouvoir le gaz, révèle une enquête du média DeSmog, e…
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Congratulations to heat pumps: a technology that has now hit the milestone of "PR guy with gas industry links is doing astroturfing campaigns against you" stage all clean technologies have to go through 🥂 🎉 www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...
Amazing scoop from @cecile.bsky.social with edits by @phoebecooke.bsky.social. Read on to see a classic gas lobby tactic to slow the clean transition, in action…
DeSmog@desmog.com · 3mo ago🔴 NEW - French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate A web of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a 'lawn mower' and brand installers 'environmental fraudsters' and ‘swindlers' 📝 Cécile Marchand www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...
🔴 NEW - French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate A web of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a 'lawn mower' and brand installers 'environmental fraudsters' and ‘swindlers' 📝 Cécile Marchand www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...
French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate
A French PR executive with links to the gas industry appears to be behind an online campaign to discredit clean heating, it can be revealed. The new investigation by DeSmog and Politico found boutique...
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With Farage making a shed load of money from bitcoin and an assortment of weird companies, we’ve launched a map and live tracker of his income 👇🏻👇🏻
Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in personal income and gifts, on top of his £94,00...
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