Big Oil’s Long History of Astroturfing

FEATURING REBECCA JOHN - Big Oil is having its moment. Fresh off an election where its favored candidate Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency, and where the latest United Nations climate conference, COP29, became a venue to seal oil deals, the question arises: how to hold an industry accountable for leading us into collective doom? 

An in-depth investigation by Rebecca John reveals the extent to which oil companies have usurped the democratic process for decades via deceptive front-groups parading as grassroots organizations opposed to oil taxes and curbs on carbon emissions.