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#9 Tadashi Ishii, Dentsu Under Ishii, Dentsu led Chevron’s advertising strategy in the U.S., making ads that painted the oil giant as a steward of the environment and promoted speculative climate solutions like carbon capture. www.desmog.com/dentsu/

Tadashi Ishii, Dentsu
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $5 million
Tenure: 2011-2016
Clients: Chevron
HQ: Tokyo
Most recent annual earnings: Undisclosed

#8 Philippe Krakowsky, IPG In 2022, Krakowsky announced an “industry first” climate policy restricting its work with fossil fuel companies. In 2025, DeSmog revealed IPG was violating its policy by helping oil giant Saudi Aramco target ads at policymakers. www.desmog.com/2025/08/25/i...

Philippe Krakowsky, IPG
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $85 million
Tenure: 2020-present
Clients: ExxonMobil
HQ: New York
Most recent annual earnings: $16.4 million (2024)

#7 Toshihiro Yamamoto, Dentsu By the time Yamamoto departed in 2021, Dentsu had upped its fossil fuel contracts from five when he started his tenure to at least 11, according to DeSmog research. www.desmog.com/dentsu/

Toshihiro Yamamoto, Dentsu
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $88 million
Tenure: 2017-2021
Clients: Chevron, Shell
HQ: Tokyo
Most recent annual earnings: Undisclosed

#6 Hiroshi Igarashi, Dentsu Igarashi has shown no sign of moving Dentsu on from its lucrative contracts with Chevron and Shell — two of 18 fossil fuel clients Dentsu currently serves. www.desmog.com/2024/06/26/a...

Hiroshi Igarashi, Dentsu
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $162 million
Tenure: 2021-present
Clients: Chevron, Shell
HQ: Tokyo
Most recent annual earnings: Undisclosed

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#5 Yannick Bolloré, Havas “A brand that [does] not invest into this [clean energy] transition will be out of business in 10 years,” declared Yannick Bolloré in 2023. Then Havas won a multimillion-dollar contract to handle Shell’s global ad placement strategy. www.euronews.com/2023/06/15/s...

Yannick Bolloré, Havas
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $231 million
Tenure: 2013-present
Clients: Shell
HQ: Paris
Most recent annual earnings: $6 million (2025)

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#4 Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP WPP’s founder turned wire basket maker Wire & Plastic Products into the biggest advertising company in the world — and until recently the biggest provider of communications services to the fossil fuel industry. www.desmog.com/2024/09/24/a...

Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $362 million
Tenure: 1985-2018
Clients: BP, Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil
HQ: London
Most recent annual earnings $18.6 million (2017)

#3 Michael I. Roth, IPG Roth’s 15 years at IPG saw the company manage hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of ad space for ExxonMobil to help it reach its desired target audiences – and become the go-to advertising partner for Saudi Aramco. www.desmog.com/2025/08/25/i...

Michael I. Roth, IPG
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $457 million
Tenure: 2005-2020
Clients: ExxonMobil
HQ: New York
Most recent annual earnings: $16.6 million (2019)

#2 John Wren, Omnicom Wren has overseen Omnicom’s lucrative longstanding relationship with ExxonMobil — which has a long history of funding climate science denial. www.desmog.com/exxonmobil-f...

John Wren, Omnicom
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $566 million
Tenure: 1997-present
Clients: ExxonMobil, Shell
HQ: New York
Most recent annual earnings: $69.9 million (2025)

#1 Mark Read, WPP Read, who stepped down last year, was an outspoken ad industry leader on climate change, despite WPP consistently having the most fossil fuel clients of any advertising company in the world under his leadership. www.desmog.com/2023/09/19/w...

Mark Read, WPP
Big Oil U.S. ad spend enabled since Paris Agreement: $699 million
Tenure: 2018-2025
Clients: BP, Chevron, Shell
HQ: London
Most recent annual earnings: $4.9 million (2024)

DeSmog @desmog.com · 28/04/2026

It's not too late. Join us today at 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific to discuss the oil industry's trillion-gallon time bomb: its wastewater pollution crisis. Hear from reporters with @desmog.com @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social RSVP 👇 events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

The Trillion-Gallon Time Bomb: Inside the Oil Industry's Wastewater Crisis. Join us for a discussion on how failure to properly regulate oilfield wastewater now threatens public health the environment. April 28 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. RSVP. Hosted on ProPublica Events page. A photo of an oil well wastewater geyser, with a rainbow sheen, bursts from a field.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 27/04/2026

Recent investigations have shed light on the oil industry’s wastewater crisis. Join us April 28 for a virtual discussion of the findings and regulatory failures w/ journalists from @desmog.com @propublica.org @insideclimatenews.org @readfrontier.bsky.social RSVP events.propublica.org/wastewater-c...

A screen shot of a website advertising a ProPublica hosted event: The Trillion-Gallon Time Bomb: Inside the Oil Industry's Wastewater Crisis. Join us for a discussion of how failures to properly regulate oilfield wastewater now threaten public health and the environment. April 28 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. EDT. RSVP. A photo of an oil wastewater blowout shoots from the ground with a rainbow sheen.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 12/02/2026

🛢️ NEW 🛢️ The US fossil fuel industry produces a trillion gallons of toxic drilling wastewater a year — and gets rid of most of it by injecting it underground. What could go wrong? (A lot.) buff.ly/t96dPPI

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 29/12/2025

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 27/12/2025

We do it with the help of readers who chip in whatever they can to keep our climate accountability journalism going. Will you stand with us by making a donation right now? 💛 🌎 buff.ly/w6JRJYP

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/12/2025

Plus, Joe Fassler’s analysis showed 70 percent of Trump’s cabinet has ties to Project 2025 groups. Our global team makes connections on climate, energy, politics, and more that you won’t find anywhere else. Will you stand with us to hold power accountable by donating right now? buff.ly/w6JRJYP

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/12/2025

While geopolitics realign with major implications for climate and justice, we track the key players others miss. UK Deputy Editor Sam Bright revealed that the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, convened a meeting of hardline allies to discuss dismantling the European Union.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/11/2025

As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 17/09/2025

In rural Georgia, residents are waking up to the massive impacts that "hyperscale" data centre projects will have on local habitats, water and air quality -- and starting to push back. buff.ly/7PyHWjc

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/09/2025

Lobbyists helped draft a local law that would pave the way for construction of a "hyperscale" data center in a rural Georgia town. Many locals are resisting the plan, which gets a hearing tonight at the county fairgrounds. buff.ly/Vzv6aqO

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 26/08/2025

A dozen past and present staffers from ad giant IPG claim its rebranding campaigns for Saudi Aramco—intended partly to persuade officials that Aramco was developing climate solutions—breached its commitment to avoid worsening the climate crisis. #greenwashing #advertising buff.ly/duy3sLi

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 26/08/2025

A DeSmog investigation uncovers that nearly 200 employees from 15 Interpublic Group firms worked on a campaign to rebrand Saudi Aramco as a leader in sustainable energy. #greenwashing #advertising buff.ly/A5LiDId

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 21/08/2025

Google exec Ruth Porat cheers on Interior chief Doug Burgham's climate denial talking points — like increasing "incredibly clean" coal plants to power AI — at elite tech/lawmaker confab. Geoff Dembicki reports. buff.ly/EbvMpSE @GeoffDembicki

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 19/08/2025

Known as Project Sail, the proposed site in this rural corner of Coweta County’s Sargent community could fill Truist Park, the Atlanta Braves baseball stadium, 53 times. It's estimated to use 14 times more energy than the total power demand of Atlanta’s airport, the busiest in the world.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 05/08/2025

Waste pickers in Nairobi say that as the global market for "plastic credits" expands, waste collection companies are cutting them out of the market for high-value recyclable or reusable plastic.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 31/07/2025

📍 NEW 📍 Donald Trump and corporate image-crafter the World Economic Forum create “pseudo-realities” to help avoid accountability for damaging actions -- something Big Oil does to cover their polluting tracks. Read more: buff.ly/xsqUCta

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 24/07/2025

📍 BREAKING:📍 Trump Officials discussed a $500M Alberta independence loan, to make the province the 51st state, says Canada separatist. Read more: buff.ly/hvsFCKI

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 03/07/2025

🔴 NEW 🔴 This Small Texas Town Is Fighting Back Against Big Ammonia buff.ly/yyjJu7K 📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @sarasneath.bsky.social in partnership with @texastribune.org

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 23/06/2025

Kicking off #LCAW with "Ad Brake": exposing the ad industry’s role in fuelling the climate crisis and what we can do about it! @ellen-ormesher.bsky.social‬ interviews Polina Zabrodskaya for @climatewhistles.bsky.social‬; @creatives4climate.bsky.social‬ & @badvertising.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/mSH3jQT

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 11/06/2025

NEW! 📍 Did you know that under Louisiana’s 2024 CAMRA law, community groups could face fines of up to $32,500 per day – or even $1 million – for talking publicly about evidence of air pollution? 📍 Read DeSmog's latest: buff.ly/w7YAw8k

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 03/06/2025

The scope is breathtaking: More than 50 high-level Trump officials have links to Project 2025 groups. That includes 17 of 24 cabinet-level positions. As one expert told us: "It shows the incredible bad faith of Trump's denials."

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📍 NEW 📍 Elon Musk’s government legacy was enacting Project 2025. But his ties go back years. Read how the billionaire rescued the right-wing plan to dismantle the government while at its most toxic moment. buff.ly/FfblMPg

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📍 In October 2024, Fredericton, New Brunswick, councillor Margo Sheppard received concerning emails from KICLEI, an organization mimicking ICLEI, urging a reassessment of Fredericton's net-zero goals. Turns out, it was an AI chatbot spewing climate misinformation. Read more: buff.ly/rzD85NI 📍

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📍 BREAKING📍 Elon Musk is out. Now read Joe Fassler's latest on how DOGE’s work was a years-long strategy to remake America's government by far-right groups -- whose influence on Trump may tilt the U.S. toward autocracy. Read more: buff.ly/FfblMPg

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