Southern Company is promoting “propaganda” disguised as research | The utility is laundering strategic messaging about the energy transition through a partnership with The Atlantic's marketing team. (www.exxonknews.org)

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For the Atlantic for being willing to run it in a format that confuses readers, the Public Utilities Commissions in the states where the Southern Company operates for letting the Southern Company do this kind of thing with ratepayer money, and the Southern Company itself for trying to mislead people.

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