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Emily J Gertz

Emily J. Gertz joined DeSmog in 2020 as a contributing editor, working closely with global staff and freelancers on feature and investigative stories. A veteran journalist and author who has covered climate, environment, science, politics, policy, and technology for more than two decades, highlights of past roles include senior editor at Drilled (2020-2021) and associate editor at Participant Media’s TakePart news site (2014-2016). Emily’s bylines have appeared in The Guardian, Grist, Popular Science, Reveal, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, HuffPost, Grist, Sierra, Audubon, Arctic Today, and more. Emily has also co-authored or contributed to several books, notably: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, The Science Writers’ Handbook, and Environmental Monitoring With Arduino.

Articles by Emily J Gertz

The 'Oscars of Advertising' Has a Cheating Problem
ByEmily J Gertz
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Many Cannes Lions award winners have claimed credit for field work they didn’t do, positive impacts that can’t be confirmed, or campaigns that barely existed.
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
An illustration featuring a prize that's shaped like a long-nosed Pinocchio. His nose is hovering above the words Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Analysis
Meet 5 PR Agencies Making Big Polluters Look 'Ag-tastic'
ByEmily J Gertz
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Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution — and PR companies help them obscure it.
Series: COP30 Coverage, Big Ag's Climate Push, Advertising & PR Industry
During the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, people are holding signs and a banner protesting environmental pollution by agriculture. They are standing in front of the Agrizone, a special event venue sponsored by agribusiness and located near the main conference venue.
Analysis
us/Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’
ByEmily J Gertz
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A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.
Series: MAGA
A growing memorial of wooden crosses lines the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, part of a riverside installation by Dallas artist Roberto Marquez to honor the more than 100 victims of Central Texas’s deadly July 4 flash floods. The crosses — some fashioned from debris swept up by the torrent of the Guadalupe River — stand against the backdrop of its surging waters, the sound of rushing currents filling the air as the community continues to mourn and search for those still missing.
Dutch and U.S. Climate Deniers Join Forces as Europe Shifts to the Right
ByEmily J Gertz
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Clintel’s fifth anniversary conference in town outside Amsterdam offers a glimpse of the group’s transatlantic ties.
Gregory Wrightstone addresses the Clintel conference last month. Credit: Nina Tea Zibetti
Analysis
Oil and Gas Companies Want You to Think They Care About Women — but It’s Just PR
ByEmily J Gertz
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Their ad campaigns for International Women’s Day champion empowerment even as climate change makes women’s lives harder and more dangerous.
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
A selection of oil company social media posts from various International Women's Day campaigns. Credit: Ellen Ormesher.
uk/Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Staked His Brand on Caring About the Climate. So Why Is His Company Working for Shell?
ByEmily J Gertz
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The Bolloré family’s business empire — which includes Havas, one of the world’s biggest ad agencies — has longtime ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Series: #ShellKnew, Advertising & PR Industry
Illustration of Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré in front of a background of shells.
uk/Who Is Going to Clean Up the Scrap Heap in the North Sea?
ByEmily J Gertz
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This story is part of The North Sea Investigations, a multi-year international reporting project on the battle for the future of the North Sea, led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follo...
An employee welds old gas pipes from an offshore rig into pieces, at the Hoondert Services decommissioning yard in the Netherlands. Credit: Margaux Tjoeng/Follow the Money