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"We aren't comfortable running that"

Two large advertising platforms rejected a new climate ad campaign because it attacked fossil fuels.

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Emily Atkin
Aug 02, 2021
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The fate of our climate will not be decided solely by scientists and engineers. It will also be decided by public relations executives. The country’s biggest climate polluters know this well, which is why they pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year to inundate our lives with pro-industry advertisements that make fossil fuels seem green. (We’ve d…

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