Protesting Big Oil and Sportswashing 

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Climate activists are calling out pro sports teams across the U.S. Why? The answer is the teams’ sportswashing partnerships with Big Oil. According to activists, sportswashing uses fans’ fondness for their pro teams to fog the lethal consequences of fossil fuel sponsorships with
Big Oil, e.g., BP America, Phillips 66 and Shell.

Call it a planet-destroying impact of the athletic-industrial complex.

The national action for sustainable humanity...