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Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told.

This article, a joint reporting project of Floodlight and NPR, is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. A previous version of this story misstated the ownership of a pipeline that runs alongside a public school in Richmond, CA. It is Phillips 66, not Chevron. Open flames shot upward from […]

Dozens of Ad & PR Industry Directors Have Ties to Heavily Polluting Industries

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal.  Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group, WPP, Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe, Dentsu and Havas, 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, […]