6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025 - DeSmog
Aug 14, 2024 · Charles Koch in 2019. Credit: Wikipedia Koch’s largest donations to Project 2025 groups since 2020 included $3.8 million to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a climate-change-denying nonprofit with close links to both the Heritage Foundation and the Trump administration. In 2018, Trump tapped Brooke Rollins, TPPF’s CEO since 2003, for a post at the Office of American Innovation ...
Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis …
Nov 19, 2024 · The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon pollution “outrageous” and says that the influential climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg is a “friend.”. Wright is chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, a Colorado-based fracking company.
Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to …
Nov 18, 2024 · Methodology Note. DeSmog analysed the provisional list of COP29 delegates, which includes over 66,000 entries.The list was analysed for the largest corporations in major food sectors – meat and dairy, pesticide and fertiliser firms, food processors, commodity and seed traders, and grocery retail – which wield significant control in a highly concentrated food chain, and account for the ...
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.
Blowout Erupts in West Texas’s Permian Basin, Creating 100-Foot …
Oct 4, 2024 · The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, said yesterday that the water was shooting up from a well, but the Commission was still attempting to identify the party responsible. “It’s a ripper,” Hawk Dunlap, a libertarian candidate for the Railroad Commission, told DeSmog. “It could be …
Mapped: Inside Ireland’s Powerful Farming Lobby - DeSmog
Sep 25, 2024 · Despite a slight reduction in overall emissions last year, Ireland is still “well off track” in meeting its EU and national climate targets for 2030, according to its Environmental Protection Agency – in large part due to the methane from Ireland’s unchecked dairy production. The agriculture sector was responsible for over a third …
The Friendly New Face of Dark Money: How Fidelity, Schwab, and …
Oct 28, 2024 · Since 2020, three major financial services companies — Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard — have helped affluent philanthropists funnel at least $171 million to the nonprofits behind Project 2025, whose central platform rejects the climate crisis, DeSmog has found. The contributions, which include hundreds of donations to 68 different Project 2025 groups, were distributed on […]
Alberta Pledges Constitutional Showdown Over Emissions Cap
Nov 20, 2024 · Just days after Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party voted to abandon its net zero goals and recognize carbon dioxide as an “essential nutrient” supporting life on Earth, Premier Danielle Smith threatened a legal fight or constitutional challenge to new federal emissions cap regulations.. Following through on an announcement made late last year, on November 4, Prime Minister Justin ...
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick: Where Do They Stand on …
Oct 10, 2024 · The contest for a new Conservative Party leader is nearing its conclusion, with Tory MPs this week voting for Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick as the final two contenders in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, following the elimination of former home secretary James Cleverly. DeSmog has been tracking the views of all the Tory […]
Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge
Nov 14, 2024 · Governments around the world must take “immediate and decisive action” to tackle climate disinformation, scientists and campaign groups have urged as talks at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan enter their fourth day. A coalition of 55 climate information integrity groups and 42 leading climate scientists and …