Ben Webster works on investigations for openDemocracy into climate, environment and biodiversity issues. Ben spent 24 years at The Times, 11 of them as environment editor
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Published in: Home: InvestigationAirlines downplayed science on climate impact to block new regulationsCampaigners say the lobbying tactics used to argue against tougher measures on emissions echo those of the 20th...
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Published in: Home: NewsUK government lets airlines off the hook for £300m air pollution billThe government wrote off emissions equivalent to 400,000 passengers flying from London to Sydney and back in one year
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRishi Sunak cut air taxes and blocked climate levy after airline lobbyingExclusive: Sunak’s Treasury was lobbied by airlines over tax cuts, sparking accusations of government ‘favouritism’
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Defra slashed tree target after lobbying by National Farmers’ UnionDocuments seen by openDemocracy show the National Farmers’ Union feared planting more trees would hit land values
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Published in: Home: NewsGas industry paid lobbyists £200,000 to get MPs’ support for ‘blue hydrogen’Ex-Shell worker Alexander Stafford MP chairs parliamentary pressure group run by industry-funded Connect PA firm
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Published in: Home: NewsSecret files reveal how UN climate advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BPExclusive: US inquiry unearths pro-gas PR strategy produced by firm ‘at core of global climate effort’