📍 NEW 📍 Is Canada's Pathways Alliance carbon capture project still a go? Judging from this year's quiet Carbon Capture Expo, the jury's still out on that as well as Canada's commitment to the controversial technology. Read more on DeSmog's review of the annual conference.

📍 NEW 📍Did you know that major meat and dairy producers emit more greenhouse gases than the nation of Saudi Arabia, and rival those of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies? Read DeSmog's latest from Joe Fassler.

In Italy, activ📍NEW📍 According to satellite readings, levels of methane — a potent climate-heating gas — have risen all along the 878-km Trans Adriatic gas pipeline. At the pipeline's southern Italy terminal, activists are trying to hold regulators and operators accountable.

In Italy, activists are independently monitoring a major natural gas pipeline, and trying to hold officials and operators accountable for finding, reporting and fixing leaks of methane — a potent climate-heating gas — the way they're supposed to under law.

Italian activists are independently monitoring a pipeline for leaks of methane — a potent climate-heating gas. Local officials haven't gotten required "annual" atmospheric pollution reports from the conduit's operators for three years. https://t.co/e06dMZdjsD

📍NEW📍OpenAI just hired a FOSSIL-FUEL EVANGELIST as its new energy Czar. As the ChatGPT creator plans construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it hired John McCarrick – an ex-Trump administration advisor who's a dedicated champion of natural gas.

🔴 NEW - Reform Conference Sponsor Called Farage’s Rhetoric ‘Very Far-Right’ A media CEO who helped to stage an event with Reform’s main U.S. ally has publicly denounced the party’s leader. https://t.co/FVFHHRE98j

🔴 NEW - How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes. https://t.co/qATe0fjt1l

🔴 NEW - Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda Nigel Farage’s party was told by Offshore Energies UK to rethink its plan to thwart clean energy. https://t.co/j87dk6hARJ

🔴 NEW - Labour’s AI Drive Faces Fossil Fuel Pressure at Party Conference Lobbyists are pushing for the UK’s AI boom to be fuelled by gas. https://t.co/NuMMuAiWlx

🔴 NEW: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse “Toothless” reforms to CAP funds are failing to protect vulnerable workforce, experts say. https://t.co/h9CaScnlF4

’The root cause of the problems is the rapidly growing popularity of farmed fish among wealthy consumers in Europe.’ says Beatrice Gorez from @cffacape https://t.co/srcodJYnll

The investigation linked fishmeal from the Senegalese factory Afric Azote to shelves in Dutch supermarkets like Albert Heijn, via sea bass farmer Noordzee in Turkey.

The same small fish eaten by local people is used to make fishmeal which is exported to feed farmed fish like sea bass.

In Senegal, fish is vital – it is 30% of animal protein consumed. Neighbouring countries Mali and Burkina Faso also partly depend Senegalese fish for food security

A Follow the Money and DeSmog investigation published today found Turkish seabass in Dutch supermarkets linked to overfishing, food insecurity, and job losses for women in Senegal.

🔴 NEW 🔴 How Farmed Fish in Dutch Supermarkets Undermines Food Security in West Africa https://t.co/qahP3TipGT With Hans Wetzels and @remykaller from @FTM_eu, Brigitte Wear and @hazel_healy

Trump and Big Oil’s narrative that only fossil fuels can power AI’s projected ramp-up in the race with China is “100 percent wrong.” Read DeSmog’s groundbreaking story on why.

🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say. https://t.co/8IFG2T9Kok