Carbon Lobby Campaign Targets Color-Blind Readers

onJul 15, 2010 @ 06:23 PDT

A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn’t an environmental pollutant. The organization “C02 is Green” funded a half-page advertisement in The Washington Post urging people to call their senators and seek a vote against “the president’s cap-and-trade bill that will increase your cost of living and not change the climate. “The bill is based on the false premise that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change,” the ad says. “Real, empirical evidence indicates it is not.”

By Ross Gelbspan

uk/Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group

BySam Bright

onMar 24, 2026 @ 11:07 PDT

The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor.

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Climate Disasters Hit Homeowners Through Insurance Bills, and States Want Big Oil to Pay

BySharon Kelly

onMar 24, 2026 @ 08:50 PDT

After surviving a California wildfire, one family saw premiums quadruple — as states consider laws to force fossil fuel companies to pay for the soaring costs of climate catastrophes they helped create.