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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

DeSmogBlog

Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8

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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

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Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

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A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. The report was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, a fossil fuel industry trade group, in addition to federal agencies from the U.S.

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Tom Tugendhat Continues to Question UK Climate Goals

DeSmogBlog

Tom Tugendhat, who is running to be Conservative Party leader, recently called the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target “not realistic” and has received donations from Tory peers with fossil fuel interests and a history of funding climate science denial. Tugendhat, Lord Spencer, and Lord Hintze were all approached for comment.

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Conservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors

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million to the Conservative Party since 2002, including £257,400 in the last year. As recently as July, Record wrote a column for The Telegraph claiming it was “debatable in detail” if fossil fuels cause dangerous levels of global warming. to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm 

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CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP.

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Climate Denial Funder Pumps Another £30,000 into Tory Leadership Race

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Hintze, who has donated more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, also donated £10,000 in August to leadership hopeful Priti Patel , who was voted out of the contest by Tory MPs this week. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.