Carbon Pulse media bias and reliability
Carbon Pulse is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Carbon Pulse biased?
Carbon Pulse is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Carbon Pulse left or right?
Carbon Pulse is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is Carbon Pulse reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Carbon Pulse. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What Carbon Pulse has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Carbon Pulse’s own report linked underneath.
A Canadian Climate Institute study suggests Canada will not meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, even by 2050. The analysis attributes this to recent federal policy changes, placing the country over 20 years behind schedule.
Carbon Pulse reported it asCanada 20 years behind 2030 climate target -analysis (opens Carbon Pulse in a new tab)
The US Agriculture Department plans to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, removing logging restrictions on over 40 million acres of national forest. The move, announced by Secretary Brooke Rollins, aims to reduce wildfire risks but is opposed by environmental groups who say it will increase them.
Carbon Pulse reported it asUS advances the dismantling of major conservation policy, threatening protection for 18 mln ha of forests (opens Carbon Pulse in a new tab)
California Resources Corp. started injecting carbon dioxide at Elk Hills in May, the first commercial project of its kind in the state. Lawmakers ordered regulators to write rules nearly four years ago, but none have been adopted, leaving federal oversight in place.
Carbon Pulse reported it asCompliance pressure drives growing interest at California’s first CCS project « Carbon Pulse (opens Carbon Pulse in a new tab)
A US appeals court ruled the Trump administration improperly terminated a $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, siding with nonprofits selected to distribute clean energy grants. The decision was paused to allow the EPA to appeal to the Supreme Court, leaving funds frozen for now.
Carbon Pulse reported it asUS appeals court keeps EPA from terminating climate grants in split ruling (opens Carbon Pulse in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed Carbon Pulse. We asked on 6 September 2026.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Carbon Pulse.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- carbon-pulse.com
- Seen publishing on
- carbon-pulse.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Carbon Pulse has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Carbon Pulse: its report arrived a median of 32 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 17 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Carbon Pulse publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.