Right now, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party are blaketing the airwaves with a US-style attack ad campaign against NDP leader Thomas Mulcair. In one of the ads the…
Tom Borelli, a former science director at Philip Morris who fought claims that secondhand tobacco causes lung cancer and respiratory illness in children, is now touted on Fox News as…
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), has penned a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, looking for answers about a Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) containment dome that “crushed like a…
With the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute completely discredited in the US, they are taking their climate change Denial-a-Palooza circus act over to Germany this week. The Heartland Institute has a long…
The ultra-conservative Heartland Institute is kicking off their climate change Denial-a-Palooza gathering in Germany today. DeSmog has managed to get top billing on a major German website with an article…
A US group called the Heartland Institute will be in Munich, Germany this week holding a conference that has become known as "Denial-a-palooza" where a small group of unqualified "experts"…
In his first press conference after being re-elected, President Obama told reporters that climate change could take a backseat to efforts to boost the economy in the near term. It…
In his acceptance speech last Tuesday, President Obama stated that: "We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that…
In 2007, when President Obama proposed a carbon tax on imported Canadian tar sands oil, the Canadian oil lobby and the Conservative government threatened to start sending their crude overseas…
This is a chilling video of a voicemail from a Hurricane Sandy victim in the Long Island neighbourhood of Rockaway Peninsula. With scientists telling us that climate change is raising…
Dr. John Mashey’s report is posted exclusively on DeSmogBlog today. The report, exposing the right wing’s money scrubbing scheme, is extensive in detail to say the least. In a nutshell,…
Cato Institute, the right wing think tank co-founded by the Koch brothers, plans to release a document this week that has all the appearances of being a government report on…
This is a funny video brought to you by Actually.org – the same team that produced Samuel L. Jackson’s election video “Wake the F**k Up!” Enjoy: Tags: kamau bell election…
It’s almost like President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have already forgotten that this summer Americans experienced some of the most severe droughts in history and massive wildfires. Yet…
Here’s a rule of thumb: if something is so toxic that birds die when they land on it, it’s probably a good idea to put a cover on it. In…
Andrew Coyne, the former editor of Macleans magazine, founding opinionator for the National Post and frequent political pundit on CBC, has a rather long history tying him to free-market think…
According to lobbyist registry data, there are currently 57 lobbyists representing the natural gas industry to elected officials and government agencies in the province of British Columbia . This is…
I have been writing on environmental issues on the popular news blog Huffington Post going on five years now but I am not sure if I will continue. read more
Following up on an article I wrote last week for Huffington Post Canada, a commenter suggested that the Alberta tar sands looked like a real-life version of Mordor, the home…
monckton.jpg This is a guest post by Greenpeace USA's Kevin Grandia, former DeSmog Managing Editor. Christopher Monckton, well known for his wacky behavior attempting to deny the scientific realities of…
