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We found the first evidence in Ohio consistent with fracking wastewater polluting a family's drinking water. The state denies it, though it did not investigate the nearby injection well that had been pumping 400 million gallons of waste. www.desmog.com/2026/10/30/o...

🚨 NEW! 🚨 The AI data center boom threatens to super-heat the planet. Rei Takver and Edward Donnelly report for DeSmog on which tech billionaires may be the megadonors ultimately paying for a pro-data center ad campaign amid Ohio's lynchpin race for senator. buff.ly/7yMKQH6

In September, Canada unveiled principles for responsible data centre development. Some of the companies that signed onto these voluntary rules might be violating them. buff.ly/c68cwnU

🚨 New🚨: Shell knew that burning fossils fuels could harm the climate as early as the mid-60s. An interactive online archive has made the paper trail showing how much the company knew, and when, more accessible then ever. buff.ly/jEo8Zej

🛑 NEW 🛑 A MAGA-aligned lawyer for a group aiming to protect Trump and Big Oil from legal accountability told a NatCon audience in Jerusalem that countries should tolerate "mild amounts of corruption." buff.ly/2dI8iGf

NEW: Inside how a pro-fossil fuel group gets millions of online views for industry talking points. buff.ly/uZx77GT

🔴 NEW 🔴 In Pictures: 'Armageddon' at Europe's Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution We spoke to residents & fishers in NI, Spain, France and Germany. This is what we found👇 📝 @enamgatti.bsky.social Santi Donaire & @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/21/i...

The UN's new biodiversity fund was already voluntary - and Big Pharma has been lobbying to make it more so. The first piece I've been working on with @desmog.com @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...

🔴 Oil Industry Consultant Joins Climate Denial Group Run by Tory Peer Kathryn Porter, an "independent" energy expert, has become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 NEW: How Big Pharma Tried to Weaken the Rules of the UN's Nature Fund Powerful trade bodies lodged a suite of objections to contribution terms, documents show. 📝 By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/20/h...

🔴 NEW 🔴 Simon Dudley was apparently sacked by Reform in April after making - in the words of Farage - "shocking" comments about Grenfell. Now, just a few months later, it seems he's back in the fold

🔴 NEW - Reform Figure Behind 'Shocking' Grenfell Comments Still Involved in Party Simon Dudley, apparently sacked in April, appeared alongside Richard Tice at Reform's annual conference. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

A town devastated by wildfire needed help rebuilding. But the firm lobbying for it was also working for fossil fuel interests. Meet the "climate double agents." New investigation from @DeSmog. buff.ly/IzHH5p7

New - A leading UK gas microgrid company is selling gas-powered AI data centre projects, paired with unproven carbon capture, as "net-zero." AVK is behind Ireland's first gas microgrid data centre, and hopes to expand across the UK and Europe. My work @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/10/14/u...

🔴 NEW - UK Data Centre Power Supplier Accused of Giving 'Lifeline' to Fossil Fuel Industry Critics say the firm's deployment of unproven carbon capture technology risks contributing to a gas-powered AI boom. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

🔴 NEW: Orban's Favourite EU Think Tank is Back in Brussels. But Who's Funding It? 📝 By @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @clarecarlile.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/o...

🔴 Who Funds Reform UK? The Business Interests of Nigel Farage's Major Donors Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne aren't the party's only big money backers. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently stated that "in a matter of days" it will announce a new oil and gas proposal. This has serious implications for methane rules. DeSmog has been tracking this story closely.

NEW: One month before a referendum vote that will include a question on Alberta independence, a free-market organization with links to MAGA tech CEOs promoted "free cities" as a solution to separatist grievances. buff.ly/dCl3Q8h

Really excited to be shortlisted for the Helen Darbishire Award, for our article with @hazelhealy.bsky.social last year! Our 2-year investigation revealed how the popular farmed fish seabass was linked to devastating overfishing and food insecurity in Senegal. www.access-info.org/2026-10-05/f...

🔥 NEW 🔥 They looked like messages from Bay Area residents worried about the cost of new climate rules on heat pumps. But dozens were sent by a company that uses AI. Now we've found Chevron gave $150,000 to the group behind the campaign. Read Desmog's latest buff.ly/ad2K6dw

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd

Were standing outside this convention today because our homes, our farms, our health and our water are whats actually on the line here. Residents near the proposed Pathways carbon capture project say they still havent been consulted. buff.ly/75T3Bzd