Several House Democrats asked Google’s CEO on Friday for explanations about recent allegations that the search engine has profited from “greenwashing” ads placed by major oil companies. A November ...
STORY: Activists celebrated a Dutch court ruling Wednesday that found airline KLM misled customers with an ad campaign aimed at improving the company's environmental image, in a case of so-called ...
A new report found that 5 major oil companies spent more than $10 million that presented them as more sustainable than they really are. If you’ve searched Google for a sustainability-related question ...
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As oil and gas majors increasingly tout their green credentials, climate change activists who say such claims are misleading are pursuing a new ...
The word’s leading carbon polluters, such as ExxonMobil and Shell, have been accused of spending millions of dollars on “dark” Facebook adverts to influence the debate over the climate crisis and ...
In the early 2000s, BP billed itself as "beyond petroleum." The company "strongly rejects" the new greenwashing allegation and says one purpose of its latest campaign is "to let people know about some ...
Three ads for fossil fuel giant Shell have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for overstating its investment in renewable and clean energy while failing to clarify the majority of its ...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has warned all banks to be careful when including green claims in their ads after making what a spokesman called a “precedent-setting” ruling against ...
The good news is that the ad industry is finally taking its role in the climate crisis seriously -- and taking actionable steps to not just offset the impact of carbon, but to actually reduce it.