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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. go.bsky.app/MrJdbio

“Fishing is instilled in me – generation after generation,” Declan Coney says. “This year has been the worst ever for fishing. The Lough is dead.” We document the devastating impact of livestock pollution on Europe's fishers, swimmers and business owners @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/10/21/i...

🛑 NEW 🛑 A MAGA-aligned lawyer for a group aiming to protect Trump and Big Oil from legal accountability told a NatCon audience in Jerusalem that countries should tolerate “mild amounts of corruption." buff.ly/2dI8iGf

NEW: Inside how a pro-fossil fuel group gets millions of online views for industry talking points. buff.ly/uZx77GT

🔴 Oil Industry Consultant Joins Climate Denial Group Run by Tory Peer Kathryn Porter, an “independent” energy expert, has become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

The UN's new biodiversity fund was already voluntary - and Big Pharma has been lobbying to make it more so. The first piece I've been working on with @desmog.com @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...

🔴 NEW: How Big Pharma Tried to Weaken the Rules of the UN’s Nature Fund Powerful trade bodies lodged a suite of objections to contribution terms, documents show. 📝 By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Simon Dudley was apparently sacked by Reform in April after making - in the words of Farage - “shocking” comments about Grenfell. Now, just a few months later, it seems he’s back in the fold

“Decision makers need to recognise glossy marketing campaigns and slick lobbying efforts for what they are. PR by a gas industry for whom the AI data centre boom is a golden goose.” Ollie Hayes, @globalactionplan.bsky.social Learn more via @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com buff.ly/6KYTJeP

A town devastated by wildfire needed help rebuilding. But the firm lobbying for it was also working for fossil fuel interests. Meet the “climate double agents.” New investigation from @DeSmog. buff.ly/IzHH5p7

New - A leading UK gas microgrid company is selling gas-powered AI data centre projects, paired with unproven carbon capture, as "net-zero." AVK is behind Ireland's first gas microgrid data centre, and hopes to expand across the UK and Europe. My work @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/10/14/u...

🔴 NEW - UK Data Centre Power Supplier Accused of Giving ‘Lifeline’ to Fossil Fuel Industry Critics say the firm’s deployment of unproven carbon capture technology risks contributing to a gas-powered AI boom. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

🔴NEW: Who Funds Reform UK? The Business Interests of Nigel Farage’s Major Donors. Me, for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/w...

🔴 NEW: Orban’s Favourite EU Think Tank is Back in Brussels. But Who’s Funding It? 📝 By @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/o...

🔴 Who Funds Reform UK? The Business Interests of Nigel Farage’s Major Donors Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne aren’t the party’s only big money backers. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social

NEW: One month before a referendum vote that will include a question on Alberta independence, a free-market organization with links to MAGA tech CEOs promoted “free cities” as a solution to separatist grievances. buff.ly/dCl3Q8h

🔥 NEW 🔥 They looked like messages from Bay Area residents worried about the cost of new climate rules on heat pumps. But dozens were sent by a company that uses AI. Now we’ve found Chevron gave $150,000 to the group behind the campaign. Read Desmog's latest buff.ly/ad2K6dw

“We’re standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are what’s actually on the line here.” Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still haven't been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Don’t miss part three of the Muck Files, we partnered with @desmog.com to look into the public health impact of the vast scale of air pollution from industrial-scale pig and poultry farms. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

🔺 NEW 🔺 What does Big Oil want from AI? More oil. Read DeSmog's latest in our Tech vs. Climate series. buff.ly/Ndopcew

🔴 NEW - Fossil Fuel Trade Group Chief Says Approving Rosebank and Jackdaw Would be ‘Climate Leadership’ OEUK chief slammed for ‘laughable’ claim at Labour conference. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Tony Blair Institute Brings Gas-Guzzling Tech Giants to Labour Conference The think tank has received extensive funding from U.S. tech interests. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Great British Chefs’ Instagram Campaign Accused of ‘Greenwashing’ Unsustainable Farmed Fish 📝 By @brigitte-whl.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/g...

NEW: The company behind a proposed Alberta data centre is an American company that donates to key Trump supporters through its political action committee. buff.ly/UCTeV9T

🩸 NEW 🩸 As gas and food prices skyrocket as the climate crisis continues, a new report reveals how the oil and gas industry publicly backed federal methane rules but covertly pushed to “eviscerate” them. Read Desmog's latest. buff.ly/EO1za0F

❗️ NEW: Kendall Dilling has admitted Canada's largest carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers initially promised. Despite this, he says the project is now only "slightly smaller". buff.ly/zdyqPnq

🩸NEW🩸 As Suncor faces potential liability for climate deception in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case, DeSmog has uncovered internal documents that show a troubling campaign to challenge the science behind climate change. buff.ly/OcFz3Fn #ClimateTruth #SupremeCourt

🔴 NEW - UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated –Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔥 NEW 🔥 What if today’s disinformation crisis didn’t start with social media? In DeSmog's latest Q&A, Amy Westervelt traces how corporations spent decades shaping the information we consume — and what it will take to clean up the mess. buff.ly/fD089uE

Terrific write-up of the book in @desmog.com today! www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/q...

With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...

🏆️ DeSmog is delighted to share that our work exposing corporate climate denial and delay has won three of this year's Covering Climate Now Awards. Thank you to all our supporters for making our high-impact work possible! 🙏 buff.ly/qG6sqBe

🚨 New🚨 : Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar Amid War in Iran buff.ly/68koodi

🚨 NEW! 🚨 "...a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, and the greenwashing of ad and PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn

"I think very few people working behind the scenes to spin for Big Oil are ideologues [but]a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, & the greenwashing of ad & PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn

NEW ANALYSIS: DeSmog looked at the companies behind 33 planned data centres in Alberta and found that less than one third could be data sovereign. buff.ly/SvjCnOH

La France devrait interdire la publicité pour les énergies fossiles dès janvier 2027. Une première mondiale pour un pays. DeSmog révèle les coulisses du lobbying de l'industrie fossile pour "vider l’interdiction de sa substance" buff.ly/gwVBNq9

🔴 As I revealed, Christopher Harborne’s crypto investments are being boosted by the White House - which has introduced pro-crypto laws that Farage wants to replicate in the UK