Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing

“The enormous influence oil and gas executives are wielding at COP28 has thrown commercial partnerships between media outlets and the fossil fuel industry into sharper focus. Climate reporters at every outlet we analyzed have diligently covered the challenges that the industry’s so-called solutions face, but when that reporting is placed alongside corporate-sponsored content touting the technologies’ benefits, it leaves readers confused” and leaves climate reporters in fear of their employers’ “gross,” “undermining,” and “dangerous” behaviour.