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 ...
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.
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 ...
Reform’s First 100 Days of Climate Science Denial in Parliament
Oct 12, 2024 · Today marks 100 days since Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won five seats in the 4 July general election.. Reform MPs have used their new platform in Parliament to attack climate action and cast doubt on climate science – in speeches in the House of Commons, at the party’s annual conference, and in public appearances alongside …
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 …
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 […]
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 …
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 …
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 ...
Europe’s Blue Hydrogen Plans Risk Generating Annual Emissions …
Oct 12, 2024 · This story is the fourth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with Le Monde.. To read an article written by Hydrogen Europe in response to this article, click here.. Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural ...