Matthew Green

London

Global Investigations Editor at DeSmog

Global investigations editor at DeSmog. (Check out @DeSmog for our official feed). Author of Resonant World, a substack newsletter on healing collective trauma.

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Articles

Tariffs and Board Games

3 weeks ago | misofact.substack.com | Matthew Green

Trump’s new protectionist tariff policy has made Americans acutely aware of just how much we rely on other countries to make the things we buy. Most news stories have been about the ways that higher tariffs affect the prices of widely used, expensive items like cars, furniture, and home appliances. But as recently reported by NPR. the president’s tariffs will also raise costs on a wide range of consumer goods. One niche product that is of particular interest to me is board games.
Cybersecurity Class-Action Liability in Pennsylvania-Where Are We At, and What’s Next?

2 months ago | law.com | Matthew Green

In recent years, Pennsylvania has seen significant developments in class action data breach cases, driven by the increasing frequency of cyber attacks and the evolving nature of technology. Initially, courts in Pennsylvania appeared hesitant to entertain class claims in data breach cases.
Q & A: Kritee (Kanko) on Navigating the Emotional Toll of the Assault on Climate Action

2 months ago | ecotopical.com | Matthew Green

Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
Healing spiritual loneliness in an age of polycrisis

2 months ago | unthinkable.substack.com | Matthew Green

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published“The biggest poison we are dealing with at the root of all this is spiritual loneliness.”This week we welcome back Matthew Green, global investigations editor at DeSmog, and creator of Resonant World, a newsletter serving the global trauma healing movement.
Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the 'Weaponized Abuse' of Authoritarianism

Feb 3, 2025 | desmog.com | Matthew Green

It’s a ‘coup in plain sight.’That’s political analyst Jared Yates Sexton’s verdict on the news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was granted full access to the systems that handle trillions of dollars in federal payments at the weekend — despite having no official role in government. The speed at which U.S. President Donald Trump and his tech billionaire backers have overturned democratic, legal and institutional norms since his inauguration two weeks ago has left his opponents reeling.
The Coming Climate Uncertainty Conundrum

Jan 23, 2025 | desmog.com | Rupert Read |Matthew Green

This piece is about what we talk about when we talk about ‘climate change.’Mostly, whether in the campaigning world or the policy world, the tech world or the business world, the everyday world or the world of international summitry, we mainly talk about cutting carbon emissions. And if we talk about impacts, we talk about the impacts of global heating, plus the impacts of the growing chaos.
The Case For A 'Bold Idea' To End The Era Of Coal, Oil And Gas

Nov 22, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Matthew Green

Above photo: Tzeporah Berman. Cold War Foes Made Treaties To Limit The Spread Of Nukes. Could A Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels? To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Could the world negotiate a wind-down of the fossil fuel industry — just as Cold War adversaries once agreed to limit their stockpiles of nuclear weapons?
Q&A: Cold War Foes Made Treaties to Limit the Spread of Nukes. Could a Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels?

Nov 22, 2024 | desmog.com | Matthew Green

To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Could the world negotiate a wind-down of the fossil fuel industry — just as Cold War adversaries once agreed to limit their stockpiles of nuclear weapons?
Q&A: Meet the Lawyer Fighting To Pry the ‘Jewel’ From ExxonMobil’s Crown

Nov 19, 2024 | desmog.com | Matthew Green

A video of this interview can be seen by registering for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every conceivable legal strategy in her bid to halt ExxonMobil’s fast-growing oil drilling operations off the coast of Guyana.
How A Former ExxonMobil Employee Confronted Climate Disinformation

Nov 8, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Matthew Green

Above photo: A flooded Mobil gas station in Vidor, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey on Sept 1, 2017.