Denial & Misinformation

An Energy Department Climate Change Report ‘Completely Ignored’ Adaptation, Rutgers Professor Says

Pamela McElwee joined a group of 85 climate scientists who refuted DOE’s faulty science last week. Trump’s climate denialism, she believes, is designed to sow confusion—and inaction.

By Anna Mattson

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Maryland Advocates Call for Penalties on Washington Gas After Ruling on False Environmental Claims

By Aman Azhar

World’s Researchers Say They Will Resist Attacks on Science and Support Beleaguered U.S. Colleagues

By Bob Berwyn

Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Disparages Climate Action as ‘Religion’

By James Bruggers

Climate Change Is the Backdrop to Our Lives, But It’s Missing in Movies

By Kiley Price

Trump’s New Energy Secretary Called Germany’s Energy Transition ‘Unreliable.’ But He Missed All the Nuance

By Dan Gearino

Watchdog Groups Anticipate ‘an All-Out War on Science and Scientists’ by the Trump Administration

By Bob Berwyn

Misinformation Spreads Like Wildfire Online While LA Neighborhoods Burn

By Wyatt Myskow, Martha Pskowski

Social Media Is a Growing Vehicle for Climate Misinformation

By Kiley Price

Climate Change Makes Vaccines More Important—While Also Undercutting Them

By Kiley Price

Disinformation Threatens Climate Action, UN Warns

By Bob Berwyn

Grassroots Hurricane Relief Efforts Fight Disinformation, Slow Bureaucracies and More Frequent Catastrophes

By Keerti Gopal

Climate Disasters Only Slightly Shift the Political Needle

By Bob Berwyn

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working To Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping

By Miranda Green, Floodlight; Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica; Priyanjana Bengani, Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Fact-Checking the Viral Conspiracies in the Wake of Hurricane Helene

By Zoya Teirstein, Grist

Why the 2024 Hurricane Season Could Finally Change the Conversation Around Climate Change

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Alleging Decades of Lies, California Sues ExxonMobil Over Plastic Pollution Crisis

By James Bruggers

10 Tough Climate Questions for the Presidential Debate

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross