Researchers said the total health impacts of the plants could amount to $6.2 billion a year.

Oxford University fellow Professor Peter Edwards has been appointed to the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s board of trustees.

Peter Butlin, who is deputy leader of Warwickshire County Council, regularly shares content from climate science denial groups.

A major new catalogue of fossil fuel company adverts based on research by DeSmog shows the gap between their public image and the reality of their operations.

Lord Peter Lilley has been proposed as a member of a new parliamentary environmental committee.

65% of directors from the banks analysed had connections to polluting industries and obstructive lobby groups.

The analysis comes as shareholders are preparing to vote on a range of progressive environmental resolutions at the banks' annual meetings.