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Desmog - Clearing the PR Pollution

DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay

Judges highlight stories revealing oil and advertising industry tactics for prolonging the fossil fuel era.
Judges highlight stories revealing oil and advertising industry tactics for prolonging the fossil fuel era.
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uk/School Students Missed 15 Million Teaching Hours Due to June Heatwave
Exclusive: Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France
uk/Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
uk/Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network
Fossil Fuel-Tied PR Agency Supporting U.N. Climate Conference

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uk/Bristol Becomes First UK City to Ban Fast Fashion Adverts Over Industry’s Environmental Toll
By Ellen Ormesher
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Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Advertising & PR Industry

Policy update also restricts advertising for fossil fuels products and services in council owned ad sites.

Policy update also restricts advertising for fossil fuels products and services in council owned ad sites.
Analysis
Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
ByMatthew Green
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The acclaimed climate accountability journalist says bold steps are needed to reverse the insidious impact of decades of industry propaganda on the public square.

The acclaimed climate accountability journalist says bold steps are needed to reverse the insidious impact of decades of industry propaganda on the public square.
Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
ByGeoff Dembicki
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With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.

With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
Les manœuvres des lobbys pour affaiblir le projet d'interdiction de la publicité pour les énergies fossiles
ByCécile Marchand and TJ Jordan
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Des compagnies pétrolières, gazières et certains médias cherchent à « vider de sa substance » les restrictions envisagées.

Des compagnies pétrolières, gazières et certains médias cherchent à « vider de sa substance » les restrictions envisagées.
Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
Analysis
Far Right Win Could ‘Rupture’ Profitable Renewables Push in East Germany – Experts
ByElena Kolb
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Victory in this weekend’s landmark election could see Alternative for Germany stall a lucrative wind and solar drive in Saxony-Anhalt.

Victory in this weekend’s landmark election could see Alternative for Germany stall a lucrative wind and solar drive in Saxony-Anhalt.
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Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar from War in Iran
ByEllen Ormesher
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Campaigners say advertising and PR agencies are “nowhere close” to giving up their oil and gas clients.
Campaigners say advertising and PR agencies are “nowhere close” to giving up their oil and gas clients.
Woman happily bathing in a bathtub of crude oil.
Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine
ByEllen Ormesher
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SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
Analysis
Majority of Planned Alberta Data Centre Projects Could be Under Foreign Control
ByMitch Anderson
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DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
DeSmog analysis finds less than one third of planned projects could have full Canadian control over data.
Carbon Capture Is Booming. So Is the Push to Shift Oversight to States
BySarah Hofmann
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As hundreds of CO2 storage wells move toward development, the EPA is handing more regulatory authority to states — despite concerns about safety and long-term liability.
As hundreds of CO2 storage wells move toward development, the EPA is handing more regulatory authority to states — despite concerns about safety and long-term liability.
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Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas
Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid
DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
uk/Bristol Becomes First UK City to Ban Fast Fashion Adverts Over Industry’s Environmental Toll
Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar from War in Iran

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Tech vs. Climate

Archbald resident Tamara Misewicz-Healey speaks at Archbald Borough Building on November 24, 2025. (Credit: Edward Donnelly/DeSmog)
Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
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 technology.
Author Adam Becker’s book, More, Everything, Forever, exposes how tech billionaires’ sci-fi inspired fantasies about ever-more technology making everything, endlessly, better are “wildly implausible.” Credit: Hachette Book Group/DeSmog
AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, Conservative Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho, and Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice. Credit: Lauren Hurley / DESNZ (Miliband), Christine Quarmyne / CCHQ (Coutinho), Reform UK / YouTube (Tice)
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
Koch, Inc., said in October that its real estate arm has been getting into the business of building data centers like this one in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Chad Davis/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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