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| Aug 27, 2026 | Going Ham: EU Lawmakers Seek to Expand Scope of ‘Veggie Burger’ Labelling Ban | 7 Mins Read The European Parliament is set to vote on a proposal to extend the ban on plant-based meat labels to terms like ‘burger’ and ‘nuggets’, which were previously exempted from the legislation.
The EU is at it again.
Months after imp... |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Ahead of COP30, South America’s Livestock Lobby is Fighting Hard to Hide Its Methane Impact | 5 Mins Read As COP30 approaches, South American meat giants have been pushing GWP*, a controversial methane reporting tool that hides their true emissions, with the help of a UC Davis scientist.
Controversy is never too far away from the UN... |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Climate friendly beef? ALDF sues USDA for records over ‘misleading’ Beef Checkoff environmental claims | Nonprofit the Animal Legal Defense Fund has sued* the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to force it to release records concerning its oversight of the Beef Checkoff program, which the ALDF claims is producing “false and mislead... |
| May 24, 2025 | Panel sessions and punk music: SXSW comes to London | In the first week of June, the world’s largest tech, business and arts festival, SXSW, will make its European debut in Shoreditch. Ali Lyon asks its its chief executive, Max Alexander, why London, and why now?
Of the many aspirations Max Al... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | The Vanguard of Environmental Journalism: A Call to Action Amidst Crisis | In a world where the climate crisis looms larger than ever, a group of twelve journalists stands as a beacon of hope. The 2024 SEAL Environmental Journalism Awards recently honored these individuals for their unwavering commitment to truth ... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Twelve Environmental Journalists Recognized Amidst Escalating Climate Crisis | 2024 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Winners
In a year when scientists have admitted the escalation of the environmental crisis exceeds existing models, and following closely on the heels of two unprecedented climate emergencies, the 20... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The Race to Reusability: Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Takes Flight**
** | ** In the ever-evolving landscape of space exploration, Blue Origin is carving its own path. The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, recently unveiled a significant advancement in its reusable rocket technology: the New Glenn rocket's six landi... |
| Jul 20, 2024 | Gassing Up the Lizzy Line: Transport for London Has Displayed 200+ Fossil Fuel Ads Since Zero-Carbon Pledge | 8 Mins Read Sadiq Khan faces calls to ban fossil fuel industry messaging from tube stations and buses.
By TJ Jordan
London’s public transport network has hosted more than 240 advertising campaigns by oil and gas companies including Shell, B... |
| Jul 7, 2024 | Politics | Colorado lobbyists were paid nearly $70 million in the last year. These 5 bills show their influence on policy. | “Special interests are able to exercise an undue amount of influence on the legislators and the path forward for bills because they’re able to be on the ground, be in our legislators’ ears, build those relationships,” said Aly Belknap, the ... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | The Red Sea Shipping Crisis: A Looming Threat to Global Supply Chains | The ongoing Red Sea shipping crisis is causing shipping costs to skyrocket, creating setbacks for cross-border sellers. Major shipping companies are increasing prices across multiple routes to navigate the crisis. The Shanghai Containerized... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Study: Carbon Capture Tech Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years | 6 Mins Read The study focuses on a Canadian oil field that should have shut down in 2016 but could now keep producing oil until 2100.
By Geoff Dembicki
A major Canadian oil field in the province of Saskatchewan would likely have reached the... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | ‘Mad Men’: UN Chief Called for A Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising – But Media Companies Remain Mostly Silent | 6 Mins Read In a speech last week, the UN secretary general implored countries and media companies to stop fossil fuel advertising – but is the warning falling on deaf ears?
“Climate change is the mother of all stealth taxes paid by everyda... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Are We at Peak CO2 Emissions? | News emerged last week that the world might have turned a corner in the effort to preserve a livable planet. A peak in carbon dioxide emissions could mark a pivotal shift in the climate battle. It’s important for journalists to convey the i... |
| May 29, 2024 | UK Election 2024: Tories Have Received £8.4M from Fossil Fuel Lobby and Climate Deniers Since 2019 | 7 Mins Read As the UK gears up for another election, an investigation shows the Conservative Party has accrued £8.4M in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers since winning the last election in 2019.
July 4 is a big day fo... |
| May 11, 2024 | A Climate Vaccine: A New Way to Battle Climate Misinformation | 7 Mins Read Facts aren’t enough to combat false and misleading messaging. Experts suggest an additional strategy.
By Stella Levantesi
“The climate crisis is a hoax,” “climate action is too costly,” “the climate has already changed in the pa... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | ‘Music to Our Ears’: Meat Lobby Celebrates ‘Positive Outcomes’ for Industry at COP28 | 6 Mins Read As meat and dairy representatives turned out to COP28 in record numbers, the climate summit’s promised food systems transformation policies fell short – and the livestock lobby is delighted.
COP28 began with a lot of promises, b... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | A Rare Moment of Collective Wonder | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
Our species has been observing the sun, the moon, and the stars for all of our history. Doing so has brought order to our u... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Some of the Most Powerful Ad & PR Execs Have Links to Highly Polluting Industries: Report | 6 Mins Read Half of the executives at the six largest advertising and public relations firms have connections with heavily polluting industries, according to a new investigation by climate media outlet DeSmog and marketing activism group Cl... |
| Mar 30, 2024 | The Fossil Fuel Lobby’s Misinformation Campaign Against the EPA’s EV Rules Has Begun | 5 Mins Read The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a major oil refining group, is once again behind a push to keep cars running on oil.
By Adam M Lowenstein
Fossil fuel interest groups have mobilized quickly to oppose a new ru... |
| Feb 17, 2024 | Big Ag vs Climate Change: Are Farmers Really Protesting Against the EU’s Green Reforms? | 9 Mins Read Big agriculture and far-right parties set farmers against the environment, but producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.
By Rachel Sherrington
Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers des... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | 54% of Europeans Avoid Plant-Based Meat Because It’s Ultra-Processed, with 65% Concerned About Health Impact | 7 Mins Read A new 17-country survey says that 65% of Europeans are concerned about the health implications of ultra-processed foods, with over half of respondents avoiding plant-based meats because they are ultra-processed.
With an increasi... |
| Feb 11, 2024 | Impact Insights #12 | ■ 2023 broke the record for the hottest year ever witnessed; scientists agree we will reach 1.5°C before 2030
In 2015 in Paris, 196 countries committed to keeping the global average temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This is... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 2024 CCNow Awards Are Now Open | Sign up to receive the Climate Beat weekly newsletter in your inbox.
We’re proud to announce that the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards are now open for submissions. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program honors excellen... |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Too Good to Be True: How the Livestock Sector is Misusing Climate Neutrality Claims | 6 Mins Read A host of studies suggesting positive outcomes for the livestock industry’s claims to climate neutrality are highly misleading, given they use a methane measurement tool that significantly undermines their emissions impact.
The ... |
| Dec 9, 2023 | COP28 Daily Digest: Everything You Need To Know in Food and Climate News – Day 9 | 5 Mins Read Welcome to Day 9 of #COP28. In Green Queen’s COP28 Daily Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’.
Catch up: DAY 1 – DAY ... |
| Dec 3, 2023 | COP28 Daily Digest: Everything You Need To Know in Food and Climate News – Days 3 & 4 | 7 Mins Read Welcome to Days 3 and 4 of #COP28. In the weekend edition of the Green Queen COP28 Daily Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the ov... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Plant-Based Activists Take a Seat at COP28 While Big Meat & Dairy Arrive in Full Force to Launch Counter-Attack | COP28, the United Nations’ climate conference, starts today in Dubai and will continue until December 12. And while work is being done by climate and food activists at the event to bring the urgency of addressing food system change into foc... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | The Big Ag Lobby is Influencing EU Politicians to Oppose Pesticide Reduction and Green Policies: Report | 8 Mins Read A new investigation by climate media outlet DeSmog has revealed the deep ties between agriculture lobby groups and a group of influential EU politicians, who are consequently pushing against the bloc’s green agriculture reforms ... |
| Aug 18, 2023 | Is JPMorgan turning a corner on climate finance? | Let’s get this out of the way: JPMorgan Chase doesn’t have the best reputation in the climate sector. Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the... |
| May 17, 2023 | Elon Musk used to say he put $100M in OpenAI, but now it’s $50M: Here are the receipts | It’s no secret that Elon Musk has been deeply frustrated with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in February 2018, culminating in an open letter calling for the organization to pause work on more powerful systems.
“It does seem weird... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener | Berlin-based agriTech startup Klim is in a hurry to get farmers adopting so-called ‘regenerative’ methods — which are touted as less harmful to soils and biodiversity than conventional farming — arguing this evolution offers the best chance... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Sasha Stiles, Harv Teitelbaum: Marshall Fire rebuilding should be forward-thinking | The Marshall Fire brought seemingly insurmountable pain and difficulties to those who lost their homes. It is understandable that some are relieved not to have to rebuild to the latest sustainable standards, and to be able to continue using... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Beef has a sustainability problem. Is this the year the industry finds a fix? | Editor's note: This story is part of a series on the trends that will shape the food and beverage industry in 2022.
Beef is not sustainable: That’s what critics charge and what many consumers want to see change.
The statistics around the me... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Groups Fighting Climate Change Efforts Also Spearheading Critical Race Theory Hysteria | The right-wing think tanks and activist groups pushing the idea that Critical Race Theory is a Marxist plot to destroy America also want you to think that the climate emergency is being exaggerated and fixing it will demolish the economy.
“... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | A schoolteacher in Louisiana’s ‘cancer alley’ has won a ‘Green Nobel’ for stopping companies from building chemical plants on the Mississippi River | Sharon Lavigne lives in “cancer alley,” an area of Louisiana on the Mississippi River with a proliferation of chemical plants.
Lavigne is the North American winner of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize, for her work successfully fighting ... |
| Apr 17, 2021 | Planetary Emergency, Central Banks And The Financial System (1/2) | close up shotof water covering one hundered dollar billgetty |
| Republican megadonor Mercer family weighs backing Trump as they maintain massive war chest | The wealthy Mercer family is weighing whether to financially support Donald Trump’s latest White House run, after years of distancing themselves from him.
The family foundation, which is led in part by longtime Republican financiers Robert ... |
| EGEB: How US utilities are trying to block rooftop solar adoption | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
US special interest groups and utilities are working to stall the growth of rooftop solar.
Why Penn State University won the US Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind Competition.
UnderstandSol... |
| ExxonMobil, Chevron’s big cash shows cheap gas isn’t coming back | Chevron announced a $75 billion stock buyback and raised its dividend to 3.44%, while ExxonMobil paid $30 billion in dividends and buybacks in 2022.
Both big oil companies had sizable cash-flow gains as crude prices climbed and energy earni... |
| Trump goes on offense against Koch network as it spends against former president | Armed with over $70 million, the super PAC Americans for Prosperity Action is running ads against former President Donald Trump.
Trump and his allies are shifting to offense against the network financed by billionaire industrialist Charles ... |
| The Louisiana Indigenous community fighting for hurricane justice | Listen to this story:
Chauvin, United States – Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar knew that her house was gone before she got there.
On August 29, when Hurricane Ida made landfall with winds howling at 240 kph and ripped through southern Louisian... |
| How F1 can help engineer the world’s net-zero future | F1 produced 223,031 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, with almost 75% coming from travel and shipping.
Unlike soccer, which produces more than 30 million metric tons per year by some estimates, F1 has the engineering capabil... |
