Carbon Lobby Campaign Targets Color-Blind Readers
A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn’t an environmental pollutant. The organization “C02 is Green” funded a half-page advertisement in The Washington Post urging people to call their senators and seek a vote against “the president’s cap-and-trade bill that will increase your cost of living and not change the climate. “The bill is based on the false premise that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change,” the ad says. “Real, empirical evidence indicates it is not.”
how can they get away with this?
Are there no laws against misleading advertising in the US? In the "real empirical evidence" claim they've gone beyond deliberately loosely-worded spin to outright lies - surely this is actionable?
there probably are laws
... but the deniers would like nothing more than the attention a lawsuit over that misleading advert would bring them.