DeSmog

Chloe Farand

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The UK government pledged millions of pounds towards India’s clean energy mix while taxpayers’ money was spent to boost the prospects of the country's biggest oil and gas giant, a DeSmog UK analysi...
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The lush valleys of the Welsh countryside are not the typical landscape associated with the alarming issue of air pollution. And yet, a small town in south Wales has been named the worst pollution ...
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Participants of the next UN climate talks in Poland could be banned from taking part in spontaneous demonstrations and have their personal data collected, stored and used by Polish police without t...
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The UK government must urgently formulate new policies to bridge the “significant gaps” between its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and its legally-binding targets to tackle climate change...
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Fossil fuel giant BP has a direct line to UK government officials that it uses to further its interests in Russia, email correspondence reveals. The revelations come just days after prime minister...
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Several top Republican lawmakers behind the new US tax bill received donations from oil giant BP’s employee political action committee (PAC), data shows. The bill gives big corporations in America ...
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As 2017 came to a close, warnings of the catastrophic impact of climate change intensified. Devastating floods and hurricanes have highlighted the vulnerability of some communities around the world...
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BP has been accused of hypocrisy after new research reveals its Argentinian arm plans to drill and frack 37 wells in Patagonia’s “carbon bomb” province. This is despite BP previously ruling out fr...
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Concerns over fracking are “not as bad as people may think”, but suggesting the technology is safe is “ridiculous”, according to a leading shale gas expert. Professor Richard Davies, a petroleum g...
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BONN, GERMANY – Capitalising on the momentum of the climate talks in Bonn, the UK joined Canada to launch a “symbolically powerful” alliance of 27 countries and states committed to phasing-out coal...