Geoff Dembicki
News
How Koch Industries, Fake Scientists, and Rush Limbaugh Invented Climate Denial
A new book, "The Petroleum Papers", goes inside a 1991 conference whose goal was to make people doubt climate change is real.
Geoff Dembicki
10.14.22
News
How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire
PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet’s biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.
Geoff Dembicki
8.25.22
News
Big Agriculture Is Printing Children’s Books That Say Pesticides Are Great
A publishing company linked to the most powerful agricultural lobby group in the U.S. is releasing children’s books extolling the benefits of pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers.
Geoff Dembicki
4.1.22
News
Alberta’s ‘Energy War Room’ Now Wants to ‘Influence’ US, New Documents Show
Alberta recently spent millions trying to show American influence on its energy sector. So here’s its new strategy.
Geoff Dembicki
3.29.22
Environment
How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement
Mark Kennedy spent seven years pretending to be a climate activist. People he deceived are still rebuilding their lives.
Geoff Dembicki
1.18.22
News
Canada’s Known for Years Indigenous Peoples in BC Aren’t Safe From Flooding
A system of dikes meant to protect the Lower Mainland from flooding excludes many First Nations. The federal government admits some have “no dike protection at all.”
Geoff Dembicki
11.19.21
News
Exxon Is Desperate to Keep People From Realizing It Lied About Climate
Oil executives delayed and deflected at a historic congressional hearing into climate denial Thursday. Experts say once people learn the truth it could be game over for Big Oil.
Geoff Dembicki
10.29.21
climate change
World’s ‘Greenest City’ Will Be Totally Unaffordable Because of Climate Change
Flooding in and around Vancouver even in an optimistic scenario could destroy tens of thousands of homes, harm First Nations, and drive up already wild housing prices for everyone.
Geoff Dembicki
Francesca Fionda
10.28.21
News
McDonald’s Cannot Get to ‘Net Zero’ by Feeding the World Hamburgers, Experts Say
This week McDonald’s vowed to fix the climate by 2050. But first it wants to sell a whole lot more hamburgers.
Geoff Dembicki
10.6.21
News
Lawyer Who Defends Big Oil’s ‘Free Speech’ Wins Major Journalism Award
Ted Boutrous, one of the most famous First Amendment lawyers in the U.S., is also the lead attorney for Chevron in lawsuits that accuse the oil giant of spreading misinformation about climate change.
Geoff Dembicki
9.28.21
News
Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show
Murdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
Geoff Dembicki
9.23.21
News
Many Coal Miners Are Still Getting Black Lung and Thinking About Suicide: Study
Researchers in Virginia have found “shocking” rates of mental illness among coal miners, still one of the most dangerous jobs today.
Geoff Dembicki
9.15.21
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