DeSmog

Sophie Yeo

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The UK’s use of export finance to fund overseas fossil fuel projects is “flatly inconsistent” with both domestic climate policy and efforts to meet the 1.5C warming limit, according to academics at...
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Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a “climate emergency”, and will work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030, bringing forward its current 2050 goal by 20 years. The ...
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JSW, the coal company sponsoring the UN climate negotiations in Poland, has a plan to revive the coal industry: rename coal. Daniel Ozon, CEO of JSW, believes that coking coal has been tainted by ...
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We were told to meet by the glowing jellyfish. Pascoe Sabido was holding it aloft, its plastic tentacles tangling, as journalists and campaigners closed in around him. A campaigner for Corporate Eu...
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The rig standing in a field in Little Plumpton, Lancashire, is about to start drilling. Today, Cuadrilla finally got the all-clear to start fracking, after the High Court rejected a request for a l...
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“It’s 4.21pm. I’m just saying. I’d like to say it’s all okay, but it’s really not. It sucks.” It’s difficult to hear Tina Rothery’s gloomy pronouncement, as heavy rain has just started to hammer t...
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The famous Brent oil field is dead, but is it buried? After ten years of study, Shell has found that the once-productive field, sucked dry of its resources, is not all that useful after the oil has...