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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Utility Industry Dollars Continue to Pour Into Louisiana Public …
Nov 1, 2024 · On Tuesday, Louisiana voters in 13 parishes will decide who will fill a vacant seat on Louisiana’s Public Service Commission, a little known but powerful five-member body that regulates electric companies, oversees telecommunications services, and sets utility rates. The person elected to District Two of the Public Service Commission will fill the seat left by […]
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 ...
Norway’s Equinor Admits It “Over-Reported” Amount of Carbon …
Oct 28, 2024 · The drop in CO2 capture and storage could be linked to waning natural gas production at Sleipner, said Grant Hauber, a researcher for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis think tank, who wrote a 2023 report on Norway’s carbon capture projects. “As production from the Sleipner field declines, the quantity of CO2 being handled declines,” Hauber told DeSmog in October.
Alberta’s 'Scrap the Cap' Attack Part of an 'Endless Propaganda …
Oct 23, 2024 · ‘If an oil company ran that ad, we’d be filing a formal Competition Bureau challenge,’ said Greenpeace’s Keith Stewart. Credit: Danielle Smith / YouTube Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist and a professor at the University of Alberta, argues the “scrap the cap” campaign is confusing, in that it inadvertently undermines Alberta’s apparent faith in the oil and gas ...
ExxonMobil's Exit from Suriname Raises Pressure on Guyana Amid …
Dec 18, 2024 · By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.