Report examines the role of fossil fuel companies & industry associations in spreading climate disinformation in Colorado
"Colorado Targeted by Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Playbook," Oct. 2021
Over the past decade the oil and gas industry has used deceptive tactics to exert outsized political control in Colorado, a corporate strategy that deeply threatens communities’ health and safety in the state.
In this report, we examine the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics, documenting the various ways it maintains its stranglehold on the political processes and people of Colorado.
... Colorado legislators and regulators must hold the oil and gas industry accountable for its deception and political interference that put communities at risk. Fossil fuel companies active in Colorado and their trade groups must stop spreading climate disinformation and pay their fair share of the climate, environmental, and public health costs of fossil fuel production and combustion.