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Introducing: The Fossil Fuel Ad Anthology

Fossil fuel companies are increasingly inundating our lives with ads. Let's try to track them.

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Emily Atkin
Dec 13, 2019
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From 1986 to 2015, the five biggest fossil fuel corporations in America spent a combined $3.6 billion on advertisements.

These advertisements have served not to sell the public on products, but ideas—namely, that fossil fuels are good and necessary; and that the companies extracting and burning them are effectively fighting environmental problems like ai…

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