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🔴 NEW FINDING 🔴 A third of energy communities receiving subsidies from the Spanish government are managed by subsidiaries of oil giant Repsol. 📂 Analysis by ‪@anamunozp.bsky.social‬ and Jairo Marcos: buff.ly/iELga3i

🔴 NEW 🔴 Rachel Reeves told an oil giant that the industry would receive a "quid pro quo" if it accepted the windfall tax hike. 📝 My @desmog.com scoop with @theguardian.com

🔴 NEW - Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ in Private Meeting Over Windfall Tax The government has been accused of making a “secret exchange deal” with fossil fuel firms to compensate for the tax hike. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event A U.S. group with close ties to the Trump administration is convening the panel in Westminster. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage will this afternoon headline an anti-climate event at 55 Tufton Street convened by a lobby group with close ties to Trump. 📝 @desmog.com scoop with @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event A U.S. group with close ties to the Trump administration is convening the panel in Westminster. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

🔥 Texas is racing to meet AI-driven power demand with over 100 new gas plants. If approved, these projects could raise Texas’ carbon footprint by 13% — the equivalent of 27 million more cars on the road. Read more via @desmog.com‬

🤖 A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by environmental group Oil Field Witness. Read more via @desmog.com

🚨 NEW 🚨 In Texas, the gold rush to build data centers for AI is spurring demand for over 100 new gas power plants. And it is a "rush": some gas plant air pollution permits were approved by the state in just 24 hours. Get the full story from @joefassler.bsky.social‬ 👇

🔴 NEW - How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules 📝 @desmog.com report 👇

Kemi Badenoch will today announce that she would ditch the windfall tax on fossil fuel companies that have amassed massive profits in recent years. In other news, the Conservative Party recently received £250k from oil investors and climate science deniers…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggests chipping away at Canada's Pacific Coast oil tanker ban with an exception for the pipeline terminal at Prince Rupert. buff.ly/00BUhRG #Canada #BC #BritishColumbia #fossilfuels #pipelines #lng #oil

🔴 ‘Net Zero is a Killer’: Meet Reform UK’s New Chair David Bull Farage’s latest chairman is a TV presenter who has attacked climate “madness” and called for the ban on fracking to be lifted. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules European leaders are bending to the demands of U.S. climate science deniers. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🧵 New research highlights how oil and gas companies and lobby groups across the EU and US used a range of tactics aimed at weakening the EU’s regulation on methane. My latest @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...

NEW! 📍 Did you know that under Louisiana’s 2024 CAMRA law, community groups could face fines of up to $32,500 per day – or even $1 million – for talking publicly about evidence of air pollution? 📍 Read DeSmog's latest: buff.ly/w7YAw8k

🔴 NEW 🔴 Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project Receives $500,000 from CEO of Disgraced Pharma Firm The anti-climate network received the donation from the owner of a company fined $47 million by the Department of Justice. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Kemi Badenoch ditched a key climate policy while her party received some hefty donations from oil investors and climate science deniers. 📝 @desmog.com scoop 👇

🔴 NEW 🔴 Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers Kemi Badenoch’s party has been receiving money from fossil fuel interests while pursuing anti-climate policies. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

New InfluenceMap analysis of oil and gas lobbying reveals methane regulations are being targeted as part of a push within the EU for ‘simplification’. Read more in @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...

🟡 NEW 🟡 Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy - New Report 📝 @stellalevantesi.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...

🔴 UPDATED 🔴 Zia Yusuf: the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s ‘DOGE’ Ringleader Yusuf’s new role contrasts markedly with his background in business.

Who gets to eat the fish in the sea? This 2-year investigation from DeSmog reveals that Senegalese fish are being fed to seabass that ends up in UK supermarkets… fish that could be feeding people and employing them in Senegal. With ‪@theguardian.com‬ and Danwatch #WorldOceanDay

MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups - @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/06/02/m...

🔴 NEW 🔴 What Next for Zia Yusuf – the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s Ringleader? Yusuf’s CV gives an indication of where he may end up next. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Behind closed doors, fossil fuel advocates are trashing carbon capture and storage. @desmog.com obtained audio of Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.' Oil companies only support CCS to get 'a lot of subsidies,' he claimed. www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

Our UK co-deputy editor on Sky News earlier today 👇

Why is Polina Zabrodskaya blowing the whistle on ad industry greenwashing? The former AMV BBDO creative partner tells @desmog.com what happened when she challenged a client's misleading sustainability claims 👇

Let's lay it out in figures: 70% of Trump's cabinet have links to Project 2025 groups. The ideological mission is a shared one, even if there are some very diverse views in there. Great work by @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/06/02/m...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Food Giants’ Climate Plans Lack Credibility, New Report Finds Danone, JBS, Mars, Nestlé and PepsiCo net zero plans marred by “patchy and unsubstantiated targets” say campaigners. 📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social

Disturbing reporting by my @desmog.com colleague @joefassler.bsky.social on the many Trump government figures with ties to Project 2025, the extreme-conservative guide to remaking the U.S. government. Please repost!

New interview today with @desmog.com today on a topic close to my heart: **Why an Advertising Executive Is Blowing the Whistle on Her Agency’s 'Greenwashing'** www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/w...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections Newly in power, Nigel Farage’s party is testing its anti-climate playbook. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Despite a “ban” on incoming Trump officials having links to Project 2025, more sitting cabinet members have links to Project 2025 than don’t, according to an exclusive @desmog.com analysis of these ties, which have not been previously reported (and mapped!) in this level of detail.

A few months back, I started in on what I thought would be a simple, straightforward piece: mapping out the Trump admin officials connected to Project 2025 groups. The ties turned out to go so deep, and be so numerous and surprising, that the piece only just ran today.

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: We mapped the Trump administration's ties to Project 2025 and found something stunning—70% of his Cabinet is connected to the groups behind the Heritage Foundation plan. This despite Trump's repeated denials during the campaign. 🧵

Project 2025 isn’t just influential in Washington. Its friends and creators are literally running the show, according to a new analysis from @DeSmog buff.ly/xyzwHZE

Trump tried to deny any knowledge of Project 2025 - the radical plan to dismantle the federal government. Well it turns out that 70% of his Cabinet have ties to the groups behind the document.