Welcome back to Drilled. I'm Amy Westervalt. This week a really important study was released

from a frequent voice on Drilled, Robert Broul visiting scholar at Brown University

and Environmental Sociologist. Broul looked at the role of PR firms in blocking

climate action, as subject we've covered a lot in this podcast. And what he found

when he looked at which firms the utilities and coal companies and oil and

gas companies we're using was somewhat surprising. Only one firm showed up in

the top three across all categories. Edelman PR, which is interesting because

back in 2015 Edelman made this big announcement on the heels of several

executives leaving the firm that it was no longer going to engage in green

washing that it was no longer going to work for coal companies at all and that

was going to commit itself to being responsible after on climate. Well the data

that Broul found does not back that up. If you haven't listened to season three

of this podcast I would recommend going back and doing that we did a deep dive on

all of the various PR folks involved in helping to block climate action

including we also just recently did an episode of our other podcast rigged on

Edelman and their role in particularly astroturfing. This strategy where

companies or industries will create front groups that seem like grassroots

groups that are in fact before by a company or industry group. We're going to

bring you that story today after the break and next week a conversation with

Bob Bull and former Edelman VP Christine Arena. Hope you enjoy today's

episode and come back next week for that conversation.

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