Andy Rowell

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

"The White House is offering 'concierge, white glove service' to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects...while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."

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Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

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And yet Namibia is ramping up oil exploration and production, which will exacerbate the climate crisis and the drilling also threatens the iconic Okavango Delta too.

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"Pragmatism is only possible when feasible alternatives are available. Where climate breakdown is concerned, there is no alternative. The climate doesn’t recognise pragmatism. We either slash emissions now or we are in deep, deep trouble." 💯

I'm writing today to share some (rare) good climate news!

New research released today by @energy.iisd.org @oilchange.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social shows that members of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership have cut their international public finance for fossil fuels by up to 78%.

Groundbreaking research reveals estimated military and conflict-related climate reparations owed by Israel & its allies to the Palestinians since the Nakba is US$148 billion, with Israel responsible for $103 billion & US responsible for $40.8 billion. www.palclimateinstitute.org/media/milita...

nice one @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...

"Britain is on the cusp of race war, he told me. If that prospect saddened him, it didn’t show. ‘We are talking about inter-ethnic violence.’"

I went to Reform UK's conference, for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Inside Ellesmere Port, the town fighting Miliband's hydrogen plans The Cheshire town is at the heart of the UK's plans to transition from fossil fuels to hydrogen, but many locals aren't convinced

#BlueHydrogen is an "environmental disaster" and #CarbonCaptureAndStorage is a high risk unproven technology. The fossil fuel industry is hoodwinking politicians and the public, just like the tobacco industry did by inventing low tar cigarettes.

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it had to be done...

Beware wolves in sheep's clothing. How rich millionaires fund Reform

On Wednesday!

Our response to Donald Trump is our response to the global rise of authoritarianism, fuelled by racism & money from US billionaires.

The silenced majority in Britain stands against Trump - now we stand UP!

Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ...
This week's column.
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Chris Wright’s Twitter Is Torching His Reputation

Chris Wright’s Twitter Is Torching His Reputation #Climate

Letter from Trawsfynydd Julie Brominicks Last week I found a single tiny senbazuru on the T2. As if meant for me, it was folded from a bus ticket, and I decided to visit Trawsfynydd. I get off the bus in a downpour. A man in...

A poetic article on the toxic legacy of the nuclear industry at Trawsfynydd in North Wales - nation.cymru/feature/lett...

Standing up against Reform UK's climate denial The urgency of the climate crisis can now be in no doubt, with the science established over decades. But at a time where headlines demonstrating the impact of climate breakdown appear almost daily - h...

We should all be concerned that this party who think basic physics is a hoax is currently riding so high in the polls.

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Shell, the corporate coward, is trying to run away from its responsibilities in Nigeria ... #shellguilty

As well as climate deniers, all the usual pro-tobacco lobbyists are there trying to get a new generation addicted to tobacco under the banner of "free choice." Not sure how having a tobacco lobbyist from Japan Tobacco International at a party conference complies with UK's FCTC's legal obligations.

Predictable gathering of climate denying dinosaurs, incl. dark money groups like Heartland Institute & Institute of Economic Affairs, who have been peddling climate nonsense for decades - many of them, I wrote about in Green Backlash, published 25 years ago www.routledge.com/Green-Backla...

Today @tbij.bsky.social joins other media organisations in calling for an end to the killing of journalists in Gaza

#ProtectJournalistsinGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza

Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs ever known. The industry needs to addict new generations to nicotine to replace older smokers dying from a lifetime of addiction. Its no surprise - even predictable - that young people who vape go on to smoke. As ever the harm reduction crowd remain silent

While the UK police arrest disabled pensioners for protesting genocide, British racists have apparent free reign to engage in stochastic terrorism and violence on an almost daily basis.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK.

Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉

Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message?

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AI Is Power-Hungry And consumers are paying the price

AI is power-hungry, wasteful, polluting, climate change accelerating, and budget-busting. And that's just part of it.

Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ as green transition slows Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades

Big Oil was never a part of the climate solution. It was only ever interested in profit: www.ft.com/content/8675...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

The cynical systematic silencing of the truth-tellers by labelling them as terrorists. 186 journalists in Gaza now murdered www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

GMWatch publishes historic recordings of scientist Arpad Pusztai Dr Pusztai describes the results of – and the political fallout from – his landmark 1999 study that found GM insecticidal potatoes had toxic effects on rats

GMWatch publishes historic recordings of scientist Arpad Pusztai talking to investigate journalist @andy-rowell.bsky.social
Dr Pusztai describes the results of—and political fallout from—his landmark study that found #GMO insecticidal potatoes had toxic effects☠️🐀 gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia The long read: When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one of its most closely guarded secrets

Good old Blighty - excelling in bribery once more...

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