Oil Execs Spout Disinformation at House Climate Disinformation Hearing
Earlier this fall, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing about the oil industry’s decades-long climate disinformation campaign, inviting the heads of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and...
View ArticlePoliticians Are Still Using the Disinformation Playbook and It Makes Me Mad
Just last week, we heard that with regard to climate change, “humanity is on thin ice—and that ice is melting fast.” Yet policymakers still use the disinformation playbook to deceive and misinform the...
View ArticleCalifornia Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of...
There have been several dramatic advances in climate corporate accountability this month. Tens of thousands of people marched in New York City and around the world, California filed a groundbreaking...
View ArticleWorld Leaders Must Protect UN Climate Talks from Fossil Fuel Industry...
The 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is set to begin in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, next week. One of the most crucial...
View ArticleOvercoming Unprecedented Oil and Gas Industry Influence at UN Climate Talks
Fossil fuel industry influence has been front and center in the UN international climate negotiations—the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28)—in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is alarming but...
View ArticleNew, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators
Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities. That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’—fossil fuel...
View ArticleReporting from Bulgaria on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
My colleague Dr. Kristy Dahl and I arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria, last week for the 61st session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We are here to engage in early...
View ArticleCampaign With Lies, Govern With Lies
The former governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, famously said, “you campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” But if you campaign with lies, you will govern with lies. Donald Trump and JD Vance just...
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