Dana Drugmand

About

Dana is an environmental journalist focusing on climate change and climate accountability reporting. She writes regularly for DeSmog covering topics such as fossil fuel industry opposition to climate action, climate change lawsuits, greenwashing and false climate solutions, and clean transportation.

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An unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six Portuguese youths is to be fast-tracked at Europeโ€™s highest court, it was announcedย today. The European Court of Human Rights said the case, which a...
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A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a โ€œhistoric decisionโ€ in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climateย crisi...
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The worldโ€™s leading automakers are not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gasย emissions in line with international climate targets and are failing to address or even report on human rights issues, a...
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A new paper published Tuesday, November 17, by the conservative think tank theย Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), raisesย environmental concerns with electric vehicles in what appears to be the...
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The Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian governmentโ€™s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming ...
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Residents of Weymouth, Massachusetts, are raising questions about a deal made between the city and multi-billion dollar Canadian energy pipeline company Enbridge, Inc., with some calling the situat...
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The Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. The decision, issued October 27...
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Groundbreaking reporting this week by E&E News revealed that, similar to major oil companies like Exxon, American automakers Ford and General Motors (GM) engaged in early cutting-edge climate scien...
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An open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID-19 shutdowns and calling for a โ€œherd immunityโ€ approach to addressing the coronavirus โ€” which already has claimed over 220,000 American...
Series: COVIDeniers
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More Americans than ever before โ€” 54 percent, recent polling data shows โ€” are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of sear...