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Clearing the PR Pollution That Clouds Climate Science.
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🚨 New analysis🚨 Since Trump returned to power, 15 coal plants had planned retirements pushed back or delayed indefinitely. Nearly 75 percent were on track to shutter in the next two years. AI is a major, but not the only driver. https://t.co/hrpYocqolB
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🔴 NEW 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch “Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms. https://t.co/UCDSUWc8Vh
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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and...
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🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance. https://t.co/EUN27HPZlV
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A year ago, as the world convulsed from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, his allies were already identifying their next frontier. In December, the Heartland Institute hosted...
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https://t.co/ZTVjOVOIGX 🚨 Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education
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The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
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🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans. https://t.co/eoSIWuTrgQ
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A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook this work on behalf of...
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📍 NEW 📍 Mark Carney's new pipeline deal puts First Nations in a double bind -- environmentally and financially. Read Mitch Anderson's latest:
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🔴 NEW - Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture. https://t.co/OmHcQkvo2p
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An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are a “benefit to the planet”. Lord Maurice...
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🔴 NEW 🔴 MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims ✍️@lauravilladiego
https://t.co/lbQ2vYDSUW
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EU taxpayers are funding a multi-year campaign blitz which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy while featuring bizarre and misleading claims. Since 2017, the...
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🔴 NEW - Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’ Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime. https://t.co/U3VVfNM1Ej
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Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by...
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🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic agrochemicals poisoning ecosystems and harming
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🚨 Exclusive: As PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at the COP30 climate summit, the firm was also lobbying for Brazilian fossil fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it, documents show. Full story below:
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As Edelman prepared to work on the climate summit’s PR, the agency also lobbied for fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels ✍️ Clare Carlile & @maxtropiero_
https://t.co/qTR6WxUKJB
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With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling...
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🚨 Did you know that food companies routinely make bacon look pinker by adding a chemical — nitrates — that increases cancer risk? In a similar way, global agribusiness pays ad and PR agencies to mask its role as a major emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gases with a rosy
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🔴 NEW - Corporate Giant KPMG Accused of ‘Sneaking’ into COP30 Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer. https://t.co/wosTEGewZP
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Multinational consulting firm KPMG has been accused of using underhand methods to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit. Critics allege that the firm has been using seemingly unaffiliated...
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🚨 As the focus of the U.N. COP30 climate talks in Brazil turns to food systems, our colleagues at Unearthed show how industrial farming and pesticide companies are seeking to dominate discussion by cutting sponsorship deals with the hosts. https://t.co/1u8lAXc9pF
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The climate summit’s new “Agrizone” pavilion will be sponsored by multinational pesticide giants and lobbyists for Brazilian agribusiness.
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Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is challenging Trump's tariff authority in the Supreme Court in a case with massive implications for trade
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🔴 NEW 🔴 More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30 Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners. Published in partnership with @guardian👇 https://t.co/rj0suYsWe8
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Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
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The playbook for flooding each year's COP negotiations with climate disinfo was created nearly 30 years ago by Exxon and its allies in the rightwing Atlas Network
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🔴 Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits. https://t.co/gV05vpNLaq
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This investigative work had been supported by the Centre for Investigative Journalism The European Parliament voted on Thursday (13 November) to significantly dilute key elements of Europe’s climate...
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