Big Oil’s Long History of Astroturfing
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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.