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DeSmog UK: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

December 9, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Agrochemical and pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals. Read here Credit: Peter Reynolds.

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Climate Crisis

DeSmog UK: Cheap Wind and Solar Should Prompt ‘Rethink’ on Role of CCS

November 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Oil and gas companies should be asking themselves whether they are investing in “the right kind of CCS”, its lead author said. Read here A carbon capture and storage facility launched by Canadian electric utility […]

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DeSmog UK: Energy Ministers To Mingle With CEOs of High-Carbon Companies at COP26 Business Dinner

November 5, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The farce that is COP26 just keeps growing. Read here

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DeSmog UK: UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids

October 28, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Thirteen investors with stakes in expanding airports including Bristol and Heathrow are signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment scheme, DeSmog can reveal. Read here London Gatwick Airport. Credit: Mike McBey (Flickr/CC BY […]

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DeSmog UK: Coal Mining Giant to Sponsor ‘Green Energy’ Gallery at UK Science Museum

October 22, 2021 David Shirreff 0

Campaigners described the newly announced sponsorship deal as “greenwash, plain and simple” says DeSmog, a website devoted to decluttering the debate on climate change. Read here Gautam Adani. Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 via WikiCommons

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DeSmog UK: Drax’s ‘Carbon Negative’ Bioenergy Claims ‘Wildly Exaggerated’, Study Argues

October 14, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Responding to the analysis, Phil MacDonald, chief operating officer of Ember, said this was “exactly the kind of research that the UK government should be doing before it makes a decision on funding BECCS”. Read […]

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DeSmog UK: Majority of Directors of World’s Top Insurance Companies Tied to Polluting Industries

October 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Analysis found links to Exxon, Koch Industries, and the US Chamber of Commerce, raising concerns about a potential “revolving door,” one campaigner said, between the insurance and fossil fuel industries. Read here

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DeSmog UK: Two Thirds of Online Posts from Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Greenwashing’

October 4, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

One expert called it a “systematic deceptive marketing campaign designed to interfere with the solution that is necessary to respond to the climate emergency: stopping fossil fuel production.” Read here

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DeSmog UK – The ‘Big Lie’ of Blue Hydrogen Starts With Ignoring Basic Economics

September 10, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Blue hydrogen isn’t a clean energy source and the economics don’t work, but that does not appear to be slowing its rapid adoption being driven by the oil and gas industry. By Justin Mikulka: freelance […]

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DeSmog UK: Emissions From Burning Oil ‘Not Relevant’ to North Sea BP Permit, Says UK Government

September 6, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Greenpeace has taken the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to court over the Vorlich oilfield permit granted to the oil company in 2018. Read here

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

October 29, 2025 0

Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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