/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11621/all en /newsroom/channels/news/oil-companies-ad-spending-driven-climate-change-legislation-media-coverage-303863 <p>Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in <i><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-019-02582-8">Climatic Change</a></i>, researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).</p> Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:11:14 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 195048 at /newsroom