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Exxon’s 2050 net zero pledge dismissed as “greenwashing” and “gaslighting”

ExxonMobil is a company that for decades has done more than any other to spread climate denial. But now the climate laggard wants you to believe it is becoming a climate champion.

New study exposes how the PR industry helped spin climate misinformation for decades

A new peer-reviewed study has analysed the so far under-reported role that PR firms played promoting climate misinformation from the late eighties to 2020. It makes for fascinating reading.

Big Oil & API spending millions on Facebook & Instagram to misleadingly spin “gas is green”

A great joint investigation by Channel 4 news in the UK and InfluenceMap has found that oil industry lobbyists are using social media such as Facebook and Instagram to promote the continued use of gas and the myth that gas is a green fuel.

Thirty Years on: How Jim Hansen was Proved Right On Climate Change

It is nearly thirty years to the day that one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Dr James Hansen told a panel of the US senate that the “greenhouse effect was here”.

Is Fossil Fuel Industry Secretly Behind a New Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Divestment?

Last week a newly formed organization, The Institute for Pension Fund Integrity (IPFI), published its first “white paper” on the topical issue of “getting politics out of pensions”.

A New Shade of Lipstick on Big Oil’s Climate Denial Pig

The history of Big Oil’s climate denial campaign is littered with slightly progressive sounding front groups which have tried to give the impression that the industry cares about climate change.

British “Fossil-Free Culture” Campaigners Head to the US

Six years after starting a campaign to kick fossil fuel sponsorship out of cultural and arts institutions in the UK, activists from the collective, Liberate Tate, will be touring the US this month.

“Why don’t people demand action on climate change?”

As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaign in one of the most deeply bruising, personal and vitriolic Presidential campaigns ever witnessed, many are questioning the current venomous state of our polarized political discourse and how it needs to radically change.

Opposition Grows to UK Government’s Fracking “Bribe”

The British Government’s formal announcement today to consult on whether to offer between £10,000 to £20,000 to every household affected by fracking as part of a “Shale Wealth Fund” has been being met with increasing outrage and opposition.

Chemical Giant, Ineos, Plans 30 Frack Wells in UK Within Months

It will become a defining battle of our times. A Brexit-supporting billionaire, who until recently lived as a tax-exile in Switzerland, versus the people of Britain. And the battle will be over fracking.