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DeSmog was established in January 2006 with the goal of addressing the misleading public relations that obscure the scientific facts and solutions related to climate change. Our team has rapidly grown into the leading source of reliable, factual information on misinformation campaigns surrounding global warming. Now, after 15 years, DeSmog is broadening its efforts to tackle additional topics where misinformation hampers public knowledge and political response to urgent societal issues. This includes addressing global energy demands, confronting environmental racism, and promoting a fair transition to a sustainable economic future.

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What Next for Zia Yusuf - the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s Ringleader?

1 day ago | desmog.com | Sam Bright

Zia Yusuf has withdrawn from frontline politics almost as soon as he entered it. Over the past year, Reform’s former chair emerged from obscurity to become the right-hand-man of Nigel Farage – the odds-on favourite to be the next prime minister. Yesterday, he announced his shock resignation following a series of public spats with the party’s MPs. He gave Farage just 10 minutes’ notice before tweeting out his decision.
Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections

4 days ago | desmog.com | Adam Barnett

In the local elections on 1 May, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took control of 10 councils and two regional mayoralties. The party vowed to scrap climate initiatives in the authorities, and has reportedly already set up an Elon Musk-inspired “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) at Kent County Council in order to identify potential cuts to local services.
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups

5 days ago | desmog.com | Joe Fassler

Project 2025 has captured the U.S. government. More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found. That number includes many of President Trump’s closest advisors, from Stephen Miller to the recently departing Elon Musk. It also includes a full 70 percent of his cabinet.
Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years.

1 week ago | desmog.com | Joe Fassler

Elon Musk’s time in the federal government is coming to an end, the White House has confirmed. But the work he began at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the hastily renamed agency he’s used to make legally questionable changes within the federal government, will clearly continue. “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” he said, in an April 30 press conference. “Is Buddha needed for Buddhism? Was it not stronger after he passed away?”It was typical Elon, tactless and grandiose.
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study

1 week ago | desmog.com | Adam Barnett

Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in the recent local elections — this week claimed that the government could save £45 billion every year by ditching climate policies.
Pathways Alliance Lobbied for Policy That Hurts Its CCS Viability

1 week ago | desmog.com | Mitch Anderson

Canada’s new energy minister Tim Hodgson is getting mixed messages from Pathways Alliance, the lobby group representing six of the largest oil sands producers. On one hand, the members claim to be moving forward with a massive carbon capture and storage (CCS) proposal that will only become economically viable through billions in public subsidies and a steep price on carbon.
‘Here to Return the Favour’: MAGA Descends on Poland Ahead of Crucial Vote

1 week ago | desmog.com | Sam Bright |Geoff Dembicki

Donald Trump’s officials and allies have flocked to Poland this week as they try to turn the tide in favour of far-right candidate Karol Nawrocki ahead of Sunday’s presidential ballot. Key MAGA influencers – including Trump’s own head of Homeland Security – attended CPAC Poland on 27 May, urging Poland to elect Nawrocki of the Law and Justice party and calling the vote a “battle for Western civilisation”.
A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation

1 week ago | desmog.com | Rory White

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and appears here with permission. One morning in October of 2024, Fredericton city councillor Margo Sheppard received an email with the subject line: “The Real Policy Crisis: Prioritizing ‘Nature’ Over People.” It was polished — almost algorithmically smooth — and it calmly urged her to reconsider Fredericton’s net-zero policies.
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down

1 week ago | desmog.com | Adam Barnett |Joey Grostern

A hedge fund manager who owns three right-wing UK media outlets has called for the BBC to be “broken up” and its fact-checking service “shut down”. Sir Paul Marshall – proprietor of GB News, The Spectator, and Unherd – was speaking last week (20 May) at the Pharos Foundation, an educational charity that received £350,000 from Marshall’s charity Sequoia Trust in 2023.
Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines

2 weeks ago | desmog.com | Mitch Anderson

Is our country more important than another oil pipeline? Apparently not, according to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. On the very day that Prime Minister Mark Carney was flying to Washington for a high stakes meeting with President Trump, Smith delivered a speech demanding pre-approved oil corridors to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts under the barely veiled threat of separation of Alberta from Canada.