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š“ NEW - Zia Yusuf Cosying Up to Group Behind āAuthoritarianā Project 2025 Agenda
Reform has been chasing even closer ties to Trumpās allies.
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š“ Nigel Farage to Speak at Liz Trussā CPAC GB Event
The Reform leader has opted to join the pro-Trump conference as it comes to the UK.
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A version of this story has been published by our friends at @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
šØ INVESTIGATION šØ We found 14,600 dead oil and gas sites stuck in cleanup limbo, in a populated corridor NE of Denver. Here, more than 350,000 people like Christiaan van Woudenberg live with the public toll of oil and gas drilling. www.desmog.com/2026/06/02/c...
That's just the tip of this deeply reported investigation. Get the full story on how Colorado's regulator could have used new powers to hold the biggest oil companies accountable on cleanup, but instead quietly let them off the hookš www.desmog.com/2026/06/02/c...
āMore than any other industry, fossil fuels get away with doing far less than the bare minimum,ā van Woudenberg told us. How little? We had Colorado build us a database of all the drilled sites to pass final cleanup *ever.* Since 1987, that's only ~2,550. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
š“ NEW - Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson Have Made Ā£1 Million from GB News
The broadcaster has been accused of becoming āReform TVā.
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š¾We're shortlisted for the @absw.bsky.social News Item of the Year!
āļøDeSmog's @clarecarlile.bsky.social and @ellieodonnell.bsky.social of @unearthednews.bsky.social reported in July that staff shortages led the Environment Agency to drop 10,000 water quality tests.
www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/s...
The stateās reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has announced that he will be speaking at CPAC GB in July ā the pro-Trump conference brought to the UK by disgraced former prime minister Liz Truss. Reform sources speaki...
The stateās reforms aimed to fix well cleanup, but a DeSmog and Guardian investigation found it will take decades to clear the backlog.
A list of all wells owned by the by Chevron, Civitas, and Oxy and their subsidiaries that have ever passed final reclamation in Colorado. Provided by the Energy and Carbon Management Commission to DeS...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and party chair Lee Anderson have raked in more than Ā£1 million from the right-wing broadcaster GB News, DeSmog can reveal.Ā Farage has earned more than Ā£700,000 from the...
Reform UKās Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the āextremeā āProject 2025ā playbook for Donald Trumpās second term. Yusuf, Reformās home affairs spokesper...
Big Oil is buying up podcast ad space to greenwash its image, following Big Tobacco's playbook.
āJust as Big Tobacco spent decades muddying the science about the harms of their products, fossilāfuel interests now push the line that theyāre part of the solution.ā
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POV: You just listened to a podcast by @nytimes.com about climate activism, but it's sponsored by America's most powerful fossil fuel lobby.
My latest for @desmog.com with @joeygrostern.bsky.social: www.desmog.com/2026/06/04/t...
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This investigation was published in partnership with Unearthed and the BBC The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped 10,000 water quality tests from its work to ensure the health of Englandās rivers and...
Thereās one good reason why the Reform leader spends so much time with Americans whose politics is considered poisonous by UK voters. His bank balance
The New York Times has included dozens of ads pushing looser permitting rules on Americaās third-most popular podcast since September, analysis finds.
š£ #ABSWawards Finalists announced!
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Of note this year were the range of pieces focused on the cuts to scientific research funding in the USA. UK and Irish journalists investigated the impact on individuals, institutions and communities both in the USA and internationally.
