Denial & Misinformation

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

Chiefs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and other oil giants say they never misled anyone about the reality of climate change.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Judge Scales Back Climate Scientist’s Case Against Bloggers

By Marianne Lavelle

Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

By Aman Azhar

The US Chamber of Commerce Has Helped Downplay the Climate Threat, a New Report Concludes

By Kristoffer Tigue

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date

By Marianne Lavelle

Dissecting ‘Unsettled,’ a Skeptical Physicist’s Book About Climate Science

By Marianne Lavelle

Dismissing Trump’s EPA Science Advisors, Regan Says the Agency Will Return to a ‘Fair and Transparent Process’

By Marianne Lavelle

Nine Years After Filing a Lawsuit, Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wants a Court to Affirm the Truth of His Science

By Marianne Lavelle

Inside Clean Energy: What Lauren Boebert Gets Wrong About Pueblo and Paris

By Dan Gearino

With Only a Week Left in Trump’s Presidency, a Last-Ditch Effort to Block Climate Action and Deny the Science

By Marianne Lavelle

American Petroleum Institute Chief Promises to Fight Biden and the Democrats on Drilling, Tax Policy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Covid-19 and Climate Change Will Remain Inextricably Linked, Thanks to the Parallels (and the Denial)

By Ilana Cohen

The Resistance: In the President’s Relentless War on Climate Science, They Fought Back

By Marianne Lavelle

Warming Trends: The ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game, Good News About Bowheads and Steps to a Speedier Energy Transition

By Kristoffer Tigue, Katelyn Weisbrod, Sabrina Shankman

In Georgia, Buffeted by Hurricanes and Drought, Climate Change Is on the Ballot

By James Bruggers

When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy

By Marianne Lavelle, By MARIANNE LAVELLE, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND DENNIS PILLION, AL.COM

War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency's Climate Mission Is Under Attack

By Marianne Lavelle

Exxon Turns to Academia in an Attempt to Discredit Harvard Research

By Nicholas Kusnetz