Ellen covers how the energy industry uses PR, advertising, and lobbying to delay a just transition. She has exposed lobbying against fossil fuel advertising bans, and oil and gas-funded education programmes in communities facing the costs of extraction. Her reporting has featured in The Guardian, The Ecologist, and E24. Ellen was the Chartered Institute of Journalists’ Young Environmental Reporter of the Year in 2026, and a SEAL Environmental Journalist of the Year in 2024. She is based in Scotland. Contact her at elle [at] desmog.com or read more of her work here.
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
Brand strategist Dean Aragรณn will have a leading voice at the Association of National Advertisers.
Omnicomโs merger with IPG will consolidate the two firmsโ work to defend the interests of the oil and gas industry.
UKโs first parliamentary debate on the issue drew comparisons both with tobacco industry tactics and the industry's now widely accepted ad ban.
Labour's Jacob Collier warns parliamentary debate of "coordinated strategy" by oil companies to delay climate action.
Critics fear that Equinorโs latest UK education deal is aimed at quelling opposition to North Sea drilling.
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.
Growing toll of climate anxiety shows it's time to stop greenwashing fossil fuels, clinicians say.
Boycott reflects wider concerns over the role of communications firms in protecting polluters.
AKQA Bloomโs closure comes amid calls for the ad and PR industry to stop working with fossil fuel clients.
