Management consultancies play a unique role in climate disinformation, often working for both government regulators and the industries they regulate at the same time.
Maddie Stone
Maddie Stone is a freelance journalist covering science, energy and the environment. She's the founding editor of Earther, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Gizmodo and Vice.
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How a Top Climate Consultancy Is Greenwashing Fossil Fuels
Multinational consultancy ICF is well known for its government climate work, but the fossil fuel industry also pays the firm to produce reports it uses to promote oil and gas.
Posted inTech Industry
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world’s most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
Posted inDrilled, Tech Industry
S4, Bonus: Computer-Aided Destruction: Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
French artist Joanie Lemercier has been a thorn in Autodesk's side for more than a year now, since he first pointed out that the California software company's computer-aided drafting (CAD) software keeps Europe's largest coal mine operating. Tech reporter Maddie Stone started looking into it, and found that Autodesk software is used by not only […]
Posted inTech Industry
Computer-Aided Destruction
Autodesk “makes software for people who make things,” including fossil fuel companies, although it’s marketed itself as a highly sustainable company for years. As climate accountability expands to include the tech sector, big new questions are emerging.
Posted inTech Industry
Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Brother
The multi-billion-dollar digital services Microsoft provides to the oil and gas industry could help delay the energy transition — and threaten worker privacy.