JW Randolph at Grist has discovered that the coal industry has, quite literally, bought friends off the shelf in the FACES of Coal campaign facilitated by the D.C. PR firm Adfero. The photos on the FACES website were all sourced from iStockPhoto, which, as the name implies, is the place where lazy/busy/rich people go for photos when, for example, they donโt have any friends of theirย own.
Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.
The agencyโs work for the fossil fuel industry has made it โcomplicit in causing existential harm to people and planetโ, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.
The Alberta premier wants to replace coal and mine it at the same time.
A bill on its way to the Governorโs desk โ with connections to gas industry allies โ could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisianaโs future.
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