Sam Bright, Author at DeSmog
WEBAbout. Sam is DeSmog’s UK Deputy Editor. He was previously the Investigations Editor of Byline Times and an investigative journalist at the BBC. He is the author of two books: Fortress London, and Bullingdon Club Britain.
Marathon Refinery Fire Illustrates How Industry Goes Quiet During …
WEBAug 30, 2023 · The fire at the Marathon Petroleum refinery on Friday comes after a number of recent incidents at the facility. In 2022, six workers were injured and one was killed in three separate accidents at the refinery. While the Occupational Safety and Health Administration initially fined the company $30,167 for …
Revealed: The Climate Denial Network Behind ‘Classic ... - DeSmog
WEBFeb 8, 2024 · A network of climate science deniers has been accused of “hijacking” rural concerns over a new social media campaign “to save the farming industry”. ‘No Farmers, No Food’ has gained over 50,000 followers on X in the fortnight since its launch, which was framed as a response to the widespread farmers’ protests sweeping across Europe.
This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target
WEBJan 26, 2024 · When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice.Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities.
BREAKING: Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case - DeSmog
WEBFeb 8, 2024 · In a victory for climate scientists, jurors in Michael Mann’s defamation case against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn awarded Mann $1 million in punitive damages for defamatory comments made in 2012.. In a unanimous decision, jurors agreed that both Simberg and Steyn defamed Mann in blog posts that compared Mann to convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky, former assistant football coach at Penn ...
Dozens of New MPs Worked for Oil and Gas Lobbyists
WEBJul 31, 2024 · A DeSmog analysis of the MPs entering Parliament after the 2024 general election found that two dozen had a background working for oil and gas giants, coal power station conglomerates, as well as other highly polluting clients. The findings have sparked concerns that fossil fuel interests in Parliament may influence policy-making.
‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group
WEBApr 16, 2024 · A gathering of “Europe’s hard-right elite” held in Brussels today was organised by a fossil fuel funded think tank, DeSmog can reveal. The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in controversy after the mayor of Brussels ordered police to shut down the event, leading to a standoff with its organisers. The conference was due to […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing ... - DeSmog
WEBNov 19, 2020 · This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “ Like a pandemic, climate change is an inevitable threat that we must address before it is too late,” reads a June 2020 statement.
Big Oil Is the Winner From Dutch Carbon Capture Subsidies
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Porthos relies on a technology known as carbon capture and storage, or CCS, which uses a chemical process to capture some of the CO2 that spews from a customer’s industrial chimneys.This trapped gas is then condensed and pumped through pipelines to underground storage sites, such as certain kinds of geological formations, or disused oil and gas wells.
Exxon is Telling Investors its Permian Fracking Projects are
WEBJun 10, 2021 · A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Credit: ©2020 Justin Hamel . This is despite ExxonMobil’s wells in the Permian producing less oil on average in 2019 than they did in 2018, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The decline raises “troubling questions about the quality” of those assets ...