Brendan Montague

The Ecologist

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

Accelerating London's circular economy start-ups

Support and mentoring available for new circular economy start-ups working in the construction industry.

Climate denier pioneers Morris and Bate fall out

Roger Bate recruited fellow economics student Julian Morris into free market, climate denying think tanks - but after 2005 they went their separate ways.

The love, the anger and the oil funding behind climate denial

Fakenomics: Julian Morris was Britain's leading climate denier in 2003 - and his think tank was secretly funded by ExxonMobil.

When US senator Jim Inhofe called climate change a hoax

Fakenomcis: Inhofe’s infamous ‘climate hoax’ Senate speech was basically funded by the oil baron Koch brothers.

PCB pollution threatens to wipe out killer whales

PCBs remain a deadly threat more than forty years since the first initiatives to ban these chemical pollutants.

How David Henderson became an IPCC foe

David Henderson, a founder of the climate denying Global Warming Policy Foundation, has died. This is the inside story of his battle with the IPCC.

Fracking three freed

Simon Roscoe Blevins, Richards Roberts and Richard Loizou will be released from prison later today.

Field of potatoes

Governments must tackle meat over-consumption

Reducing meat and dairy consumption is essential for meeting climate targets.

Who drove Thatcher's climate change u-turn?

Margaret Thatcher flipped from environmental advocate to climate change denier.

Exxon funnelled climate denier cash through free market fronts

Fakenomics: Oil giant funds climate deniers in vicious assault on hockey stick author Professor Michael Mann.

ExxonMobil set back climate policy by decades

Fakenomics: The penetrating impact ExxonMobil had on US energy policy during the Bush era.

How ExxonMobil had an IPCC chairman fired

Fakenomics: The IPCC has now released a dire warning about the future of the planet. Exxon worked hard to stop this happening earlier.

ExxonMobil climate denial funding seeps into the UK

Fakenomics: Free-market zealots Roger Bate and Julian Morris were secret beneficiaries of ExxonMobil’s spending bonanza.

When Exxon went to war with the Royal Society

The venerable society oil industry objected to the propaganda being sent to school children.

The White House, the climate task force, the scientist and the denier

Fakenomics: Professor James Hansen was squeezed out of the White House environmental debate by free market ideologue and denier.

Why did George W Bush pull out of the Kyoto Protocol?

President Donald Trump wants to pull out of the Paris Agreement. But this is business as usual - George W Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol.

George W Bush elected in 2000 'floating on oil money'

Fakenomics: ExxonMobil’s made significant contributions to Bush’s election as United States president

Lawson's 1981 plot to use army against oil workers

Brexit campaigner Lord Lawson was not afraid to get the army out - to break an oil workers' strike

When climate campaigners crashed ExxonMobil's first ever AGM

Fakenomics: The oil monopolies Exxon and Mobil joined in 1998. Environmental protesters attended the new company's AGM to confront the board directly

Lord Lawson, his charity, its fossil fuel funders and their attack on climate science

Lord Lawson's think tank became a beacon of light around which the industries most affected by the new Kyoto Protocol met to discuss strategies to deal with the international agreement

Humans 'must try harder' to protect nature

Tory MP calls for billions to be spent protecting and restoring nature.

The Exxon man who declared war on climate science

Fakenomics: Lee Raymond is the Texan captain who steered the Exxon ship against the rising tide of climate science.

When a BP boss finally called for action on climate change

Fakenomcis: Lord Browne took to the podium at Stanford University on 19 May 1997 and called for oil companies to face the challenge of climate change - more than two decades ago.

The day greens forced a 'sea change' at Shell

A senior executive at Shell Oil has told how the Greenpeace protests at Brent Spa in 1997 fundamentally changed how the oil company acted in the world. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates

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