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Colorado Gave $1.3 Billion Carve-out to Oil Companies While Thousands of Dirty Sites Await Cleanup

The stateโ€™s reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
The stateโ€™s reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
ByJoe Fassler
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A collage of images with a neighborhood platte next to an oil pumpjack, center, oil jumpjacks drilling oil, bottom, shut-in oil well valve, overlaid on orange blocks with darker orange dots representing unreclaimed oil and gas sites. Oxy, Civitas, Chevron, and Colorado's Energy and Carbon Management Commission logos overlaid.

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The Pathways Alliance Carbon Capture Project Was Always a Boondoggleย 
'Be a PleniDudeโ€™: How an Italian Oil Giant Conquered TikTok
Q & A: The Climate Crisis as a Crisis of Modern Men
Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
uk/How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy?

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Exclusive: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions โ€˜Scamโ€™
By Hajar Meddah and TJ Jordan
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In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution.

In KTM dealerships across the continent, thousands of off-road bikes are stripped of legally-required features that restrict pollution.
uk/Two Thirds of Reformโ€™s Wales Shadow Cabinet Are Ex-Tories
ByAdam Barnett
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Welsh Reform labelled a โ€œretirement home for failed Conservativesโ€.

Welsh Reform labelled a โ€œretirement home for failed Conservativesโ€.
Reform โ€˜Advisorโ€™ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
ByMarta Kasztelan, Adam Barnett and Sam Bright
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Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.

Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Event | Off the Record: How to Talk to Journalists, Lawyers, and Activist Organizations
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Join a May 19 discussion on how advertising and PR professionals can help journalists hold the industry to account, featuring DeSmog investigative reporters.

Join a May 19 discussion on how advertising and PR professionals can help journalists hold the industry to account, featuring DeSmog investigative reporters.
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uk/The Elections that Turned Climate into a Defining Political Fault Line
ByRupert Read
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Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.

Reform and Green victories set the stage for big climate battles in the years ahead.
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โ€˜Economic Reconciliationโ€™ Means Faster Approval Times for Fossil Fuel and Mining Projects
ByTaylor Noakes
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DeSmog obtained audio from a summit where industry talked candidly about how Indigenous partnerships โ€˜de-riskโ€™ projects.
DeSmog obtained audio from a summit where industry talked candidly about how Indigenous partnerships โ€˜de-riskโ€™ projects.
TikTokโ€™s Climate Pledges Collide with Sponsorship of Climate Deniers
ByRei Takver
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By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has โ€œabandonedโ€ its commitments to combat climate misinformation.
By backing a right-wing Canadian conference featuring anti-climate speakers, experts warn TikTok has โ€œabandonedโ€ its commitments to combat climate misinformation.
Industry-Linked Studies Disproportionately Advocate Meat Consumption
ByClare Carlile
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Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has โ€œcorrosive effects on public health debatesโ€.
Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has โ€œcorrosive effects on public health debatesโ€.
Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers
BySharon Kelly
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The Heartland Institute used the American Legislative Exchange Councilโ€™s 2025 annual meeting to spread climate disinformation and tout coal to power AI.
The Heartland Institute used the American Legislative Exchange Councilโ€™s 2025 annual meeting to spread climate disinformation and tout coal to power AI.
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uk/Comment: 10 Years on from Deepwater Horizon, Coronavirus Shows Continued Need for a Just Transition Away from Big Oil
uk/Revealed: Reformโ€™s ยฃ24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Exclusive: Undercover Investigation Reveals Europe-Wide Motorcycle Emissions โ€˜Scamโ€™
us/6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
us/Colorado Gave $1.3 Billion Carve-out to Oil Companies While Thousands of Dirty Sites Await Cleanup
Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers

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Tech vs. Climate

Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
Q&A: Tech Billionairesโ€™ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are โ€˜An Insidious Form of Climate Denialโ€™
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.
AI vs. Net Zero: The UKโ€™s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the governmentโ€™s clean energy goals.
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.

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Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)
Background The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is a think tank based in Budapest. It is Hungaryโ€™s largest private educational institution. It is closely affiliated with Viktor Orbรกnโ€™s governme...
James Orr
Credentials  BA Classics, University of Oxford.โ€œDr James Orr,โ€ Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, accessed 08.01.2025. Archived December 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vH...
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