US lawmakers are stepping up scrutiny of the oil and gas industry in three separate hearings linked to investigations into “deceptive” advertising campaigns that misled the public about climate change.
In a report released by the Democratic House Natural Resources Committee’s Oversight and Investigations panel, investigators said corporate public relations companies “go far beyond typical marketing techniques to get results for the fossil fuel industry”.
Tactics identified by the report included creating so-called “astroturf ‘citizen’ groups” to hide the involvement of big oil and gas companies, building fake news websites, and channelling payments to PR companies through non-profit organisations to obscure the origin of the payments.
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