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Who’s the Fossil Fuel-Backed “Philosopher” Shaping Trump’s Megabill Clean Energy Cuts?

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis took to Senate floor to decry lobbyists like Alex Epstein pushing huge energy moves “without a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid.”
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis took to Senate floor to decry lobbyists like Alex Epstein pushing huge energy moves “without a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid.”
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Series: Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda
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Alex Epstein smiles in a suit jacket holding an iPad and looking right, with a red background.

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Mental Health Professionals Join Calls For Boycott of Advertising Agencies Over Work for Polluters   
Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report
uk/Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
As Trump Unwinds Federal Oversight, States Become Battlegrounds for Environmental Data
Safety Warnings Follow Australia’s Woodside Energy to U.S. as $17 Billion LNG Project Moves Ahead

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Several activists holding a fifteen metre long banner over the Thames Embankment, in front of the headquarters of WPP. The banner reads WPP are climate criminals, ban fossil fuel advertising
uk/Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP
By Ellen Ormesher
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Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
Series: Ad-&-PR-Industry

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.
On Coal Mining, Danielle Smith Has Two Contradictory Messages
ByTaylor Noakes
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The Alberta premier wants to replace coal and mine it at the same time.

The Alberta premier wants to replace coal and mine it at the same time.
Premier Danielle Smith in June 2025
Louisiana’s New Bill Would Codify Gas as 'Green Energy'
ByEmily Sanders and Delaney Dryfoos
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A bill on its way to the Governor’s desk — with connections to gas industry allies — could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisiana’s future.

A bill on its way to the Governor’s desk — with connections to gas industry allies — could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisiana’s future.
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Alberta Is Making It Even Harder to Develop Renewable Energy
ByMitch Anderson
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The province released new burdensome reclamation requirements for wind and solar projects — the latest performance in an elaborate political troll.

The province released new burdensome reclamation requirements for wind and solar projects — the latest performance in an elaborate political troll.
The most onerous reclamation requirements in the world?
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Alberta’s ‘Emissions Intensity’ Hasn’t Improved, Despite Government Claim
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The 26 percent reduction the Alberta government recently bragged about happened almost entirely between 2012 and 2016.

The 26 percent reduction the Alberta government recently bragged about happened almost entirely between 2012 and 2016.
Danielle Smith at the Global Energy Show
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Pathways Alliance Sponsored Science Fairs for Canadian Children
ByTaylor Noakes
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Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.
Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.
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Pioneers of Europe's Citizen-led Solar Revolution Sound Alarm Over 'Corporate Capture'
ByAna Muñoz and Jairo Marcos
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A third of energy communities receiving subsidies from the Spanish government are managed by subsidiaries of oil giant Repsol, DeSmog review of official data finds.
A third of energy communities receiving subsidies from the Spanish government are managed by subsidiaries of oil giant Repsol, DeSmog review of official data finds.
uk/Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
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A U.S. group with close ties to the Trump administration is convening the panel in Westminster.
A U.S. group with close ties to the Trump administration is convening the panel in Westminster.
Graphic illustration showing orange outline of President Trump at a cabinet meeting around an oval table with black outlines of people seated, and two-thirds of the table covered in white with the logo Project 2025.
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us/MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups
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More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.
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Pathways Alliance Sponsored Science Fairs for Canadian Children
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Inside MAGA’s Global Climate Agenda

How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups
More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.
Graphic illustration showing orange outline of President Trump at a cabinet meeting around an oval table with black outlines of people seated, and two-thirds of the table covered in white with the logo Project 2025.
Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the ‘Weaponized Abuse’ of Authoritarianism
Understanding how autocrats and oligarchs capture and consolidate state power.
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.

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Alex Epstein
Alex Epstein Credentials B.A., Philosophy, Duke University (2002).“Alex Epstein,” The Ayn Rand Institute. Archived August 25, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gp67J “Speak...
Center for Industrial Progress
Center for Industrial Progress (CIP) Background The Center for Industrial Progress is a “for profit” think tank founded by Alex Epstein, a philospher with no science background who is a...
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