Lobbying

Call for lobbying ban following revelation that fossil fuel industry met MSPs 790 times in five years

The COP27 agreement cannot be just another text that serves dirty industry and energy lobbyists to hinder genuine progress and climate justice.

DeSmog UK maps connections between UK cabinet ministers and Tufton Street lobbyists.

More than 50 percent of UK universities divest from fossil fuels.

Oil and gas giant BP’s chief executive’s comments that energy users were part of the problem have been branded 'a disgrace' by campaigners.

Lobby groups in the US are the most effective at blocking climate action, according to a new report from InfluenceMap.

The UK’s new trade secretary met last year with climate-sceptic think tanks that are behind Trump’s programme of deregulation and tax cuts.

The first part of our FAKENOMICS series opens with our Antony Fisher, the founder of the Institute of Economics, experiencing a harrowing experience during the Battle of Britain and the war against totalitarianism

The Institute of Economic Affairs has long kept the identity of its funders secret. The oil company BP still gives the climate denying charity cash, it has been confirmed. LAWERENCE CARTER and ALICE ROSS investigate

The Institute of Economic Affairs arranged meetings with ministers for US donors. LAWRENCE CARTER and ALICE ROSS report

The Institute of Economic Affairs offered a potential US agribusiness donor the chance to influence a report on 'green Brexit'. ALICE ROSS and LAWRENCE CARTER report

The Institute of Economic Affairs' Shanker Singham took visitors from Oklahoma into the heart of government. ALICE ROSS and LAWRENECE CARTER investigate

Lobbyists spent more than $2 billion trying to influence climate legislation in the US Congress between 2000 and 2016, according to a study by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle published today in the journal Climatic Change. ITAI VARDY reports for DESMOG UK

Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr John Broderick have published a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe examining the climate impact of natural gas. The findings contradict industry public relations, KATIE HODGETTS argues.

Reporting from this month's international climate conference in Bonn - a preliminary to this year's COP23 in November - ARTHUR WYNS explores the glaring conflicts of interests which sees fossil fuel lobbyists in the same room as delegates discussing policy to avert climate catastrophe

Environmental campaigner and former politician Donnachadh McCarthy on the power of political lobbyists and the damage they do to democracy.

A growing number of American patients say they've been poisoned by fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Not only has this ruined lives, they say, it's exposed the unhealthy relationship between some drug manufacturers and medical regulatory bodies. Carey Purcell reports

Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections to International Life Science Institute (ILSI), which advises biotech giants like Monsanto, Bayer and BASF

Copenhagen is awash with lobbyists of all creeds and colours, but those representing big business interests have more power than most. Here are their demands...

Our addiction to oil is not inevitable. We can all take steps to kick the habit

The United States is trying to water-down the recommendations made in the third report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be released this Friday, the Associated Press reports.

In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas