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Edelman's climate cop-out

The world’s biggest PR firm vowed to drop “environmentally irresponsible” clients. Has it?

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Jan 12, 2023
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In November 2021, the world’s largest public relations agency was facing a public relations crisis. 

Tax filings showed that Edelman, a firm that claimed to be committed to climate action, was taking millions each year to create slick marketing campaigns for the world’s biggest climate polluters and their extreme anti-climate political lobbying arms.

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