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DeSmog @desmog.com · Nov 14
Trump is opening his administration to fracking billionaires, oil lobbyists and far-right climate deniers. Our global team of investigative reporters is tracking the damage.

Here's a starter pack of DeSmog investigators and some of the climate disinfo journalists we follow.

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Canada's largest pension fund has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. since Trump's return to office.

Read our report below:
Canada Pension Plan is Bankrolling Trump’s Fossil Fuel and AI Agenda
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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🔴 NEW - MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws

The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels.

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MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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📍 NEW 📍Tech billionaires aren’t denying climate change outright — Instead, they pitch AI miracles and space escape plans to divert attention. Read Rei Takver’s new Q&A revealing this new climate denial playbook. buff.ly/TO4YnoO @rtakver.bsky.social
Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic…
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February 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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It includes funding outright climate denial in a magazine funded by Palantir founder Peter Thiel and "a more insidious form of climate denial that minimizes climate change as a problem and says, 'Oh, this is something that we can solve later, once we’ve built an AI god, or gone to space.'" 👇
February 5, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Did you know the roots of Nigel Farage's climate denier party Reform UK stretch all the way back to Alberta, Canada?

Read our new analysis below:
The Political Roots of Nigel Farage and Reform UK Stretch Back To Alberta
It turns out oil and gas aren’t Alberta’s only hazardous exports.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’
Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’
Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil fuel resources. New records show that party lea...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:

1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.

Voila!

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January 29, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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📍 NEW 📍 Using Trump's international chaos, U.S. Big Oil takes the fight overseas: Leaked docs show the American Petroleum Institute targeting Europe’s toughest climate law. Read the latest collaboration between DeSmog and ExxonKnews. buff.ly/ZizCFf3 #EmilySanders
Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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🔴 NEW - Claire Coutinho Touts Anti-Net Zero Reports by Oil-Linked Authors

Tory energy chief endorses debunked studies written by fossil fuel industry interests.

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Claire Coutinho Touts Anti-Net Zero Reports by Oil-Linked Authors
In the first few weeks of 2026, UK newspapers have been ablaze with sensational claims about climate policy: cutting emissions to net zero would cost up to “£9 trillion”. An electricity grid run on re...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's goal is to "increase our oil production", according to Carney's former chief of staff

Read DeSmog's exclusive report below:
Mark Carney’s Goal Is To ‘Increase Our Oil Production,’ Says Former Chief of Staff
It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new climate accounting scheme enabling just that. See the industry docs dating back to the '60s ("Pollution is everybody’s business") and more 👇
After Decades of Deflection, ExxonMobil Moves to Reshape Global Climate Accounting
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing Carbon Measures’ accounting scheme, which moves pollution…
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January 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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🔴 NEW - Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer

Nigel Farage and his colleagues have close ties to the autocratic petrostate.

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Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer
Nadhim Zahawi, a high-profile defector from the Conservatives to Reform UK, chairs the advisory board of a luxury property developer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), DeSmog can report. Former Tory c...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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🔴 NEW | EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say

Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, says Dutch MEP @anjahazekamp.bsky.social following today’s legal opinion

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EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say
Plans by the European Commission to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety would break EU law, according to a new legal opinion published today (27 January).  The Commission announced plans in Decem...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis

Via @insidetrackuk.bsky.social
Story by @tjjordan.bsky.social @desmog.com
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Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis
Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”
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January 27, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Ad industry talks moral leadership in public, their work continues to “funding hate, legitimising environmental destructive companies, and working at the frontline of a US-led rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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Whistleblowers Warn That Ad Industry Is Fuelling Online Hatred and Climate Crisis
Anonymous group of senior executives say major ad agencies are “enabling harm rather than doing good.”
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January 27, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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🔴 Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump

The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.

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Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
Nigel Farage’s donors have paid for him to take trips around the world to the tune of £151,000 since July 2024, DeSmog can reveal. Farage jetted off to the elite networking forum Davos in Switzerland ...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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“It would be akin to a tobacco company saying ‘we just make the cigarettes, we’re not responsible for the damage once you light up,’” said Brendan DeMelle, executive director of DeSmog, a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on climate change.
January 23, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Get the full thread on @sharonkelly.bsky.social's reporting on ExxonMobil's history of avoiding climate accountability with industry docs dating back to the '60s and the context behind the oil major's backing of Carbon Measures from the editor who worked with her on the story 👇
ashleybraun.bsky.social Ashley Braun @ashleybraun.bsky.social · 16d
Now ExxonMobil has joined the Carbon Measures coalition in an effort to reshape global climate accounting standards. The coalition says they "are focused on reducing the carbon intensity of the products responsible for the majority of global emissions."
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new accounting scheme which moves climate pollution “liabilities” to buyers’ books. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has the story for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/e...
After Decades of Deflection, ExxonMobil Moves to Reshape Global Climate Accounting
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing Carbon Measures’ accounting scheme, which moves pollution “liabilities”...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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🔴 NEW: Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads

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Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads
Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Some Alberta separatists want to eliminate Indigenous rights.

Read our analysis on how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has helped the separatist movement, despite the constitutional chaos it is causing.
Alberta Separatism Would be Terrible for Indigenous Rights
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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🚨 NEW 🚨 Around 2 in 3 people worldwide (~ 5.5 billion billion) want stronger international climate & AI cooperation. Can citizens' assemblies — "a kind of anti Trump-Monroe spheres of influence project" to reform global governance — make it happen?
As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?
On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where it first convened in 1946. At the same time,…
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January 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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REVEALED: Danielle Smith is working with the Trump official who wants to annex Greenland.

Read our report about how the Alberta premier belongs to a U.S. group called the Governors Coalition for Energy Security that’s led by Jeff Landry, Trump’s envoy to Greenland.
Danielle Smith Working With Trump Official Who Wants to Annex Greenland
The Alberta premier belongs to a U.S. group called the Governors Coalition for Energy Security that’s led by Jeff Landry, Trump’s envoy to Greenland.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports

The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups.

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‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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🔴 NEW - ‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports

The people behind the reports are tied to the fossil fuel industry and climate science denial groups.

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‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by en...
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January 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM