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How the Oil Industry Is Pushing EPA to ‘Effectively Gut’ Methane Rules During Affordability and Climate Crises

From the One Big Beautiful Bill to a pipeline “loophole,” a new report highlights industry influence on EPA and Congress to reverse climate rules.
From the One Big Beautiful Bill to a pipeline “loophole,” a new report highlights industry influence on EPA and Congress to reverse climate rules.
ByRachel Santarsiero
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Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda
Series: MAGA
A red, white, and blue banner with the EPA logo and U.S. 250th anniversary that reads 'Powering the Great American Comeback' on the outside of the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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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
Les manœuvres des lobbys pour affaiblir le projet d'interdiction de la publicité pour les énergies fossiles
Advertising Contracts with Big Oil Hit Record High as Profits Soar from War in Iran
Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine

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Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
By Mitch Anderson
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Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.

Black & Veatch, the company behind Goldfinch Technology Park, donates to Republican politicians through its political action committee.
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.
Exclusive: Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France
ByCécile Marchand and TJ Jordan
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Leaked lobbying records show oil, gas and media companies aim to ‘hollow out’ planned restrictions as key consultation takes place.

Leaked lobbying records show oil, gas and media companies aim to ‘hollow out’ planned restrictions as key consultation takes place.
Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
uk/School Students Missed 15 Million Teaching Hours Due to June Heatwave
ByClare Carlile and Brigitte Wear
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Thousands of schools closed their doors, and a third of all pupils were recorded absent in Wales as temperatures hit 37°C.

Thousands of schools closed their doors, and a third of all pupils were recorded absent in Wales as temperatures hit 37°C.
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Pathways Proponent Claims Carbon Capture Project Only 'Slightly Smaller' Despite Reduction by Half
ByTaylor Noakes
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Oil Sands Alliance's Kendall Dilling confirms that the proposed carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers originally advertised.
Oil Sands Alliance's Kendall Dilling confirms that the proposed carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers originally advertised.
uk/UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
ByAdam Barnett
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The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world.
The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world.
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.
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.
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How the Oil Industry Is Pushing EPA to 'Effectively Gut' Methane Rules During Affordability and Climate Crises
uk/UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
Pathways Proponent Claims Carbon Capture Project Only 'Slightly Smaller' Despite Reduction by Half
us/6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
Proposed Alberta Data Centre Backed by U.S.-based MAGA Donor
Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm

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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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