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  • June 13, 2021
  • Guest Column
  • Boston Globe

Big Oil Gets Clean and the World Stays Dirty: Public Pressure on Fossil Fuel Companies Can Only Do So Much

By: John Mulliken
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Keywords

Climate Change; Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Opinion; Investment Activism; Energy Industry

Citation

Mulliken, John. "Big Oil Gets Clean and the World Stays Dirty: Public Pressure on Fossil Fuel Companies Can Only Do So Much." Ideas. Boston Globe (June 13, 2021), K.3.
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John C. Mulliken

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