Lipstick, meet pig: US frackers’ hopeless ESG beauty parade won’t wash with investors
American shale oil producers are unleashing a torrent of ESG obfuscation on capital markets in a desperate pitch to green investors. It is destined to fail.

American shale oil producers are unleashing a torrent of ESG obfuscation on capital markets in a desperate pitch to green investors. It is destined to fail.
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