Fossil Fuel Titan Spins Ebola Crisis for Corporate Gain

The world’s largest privately-held coal company has been exposed capitalizing off the Ebola crisis in West Africa—a move public health officials called “ludicrous” and “opportunistic.”

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A Guardian exposé reveals that Peabody Coal’s new public relations campaign—which aims to brand the iconic pollutant as a “21st century fuel”—promotes its product “as an answer to Africa’s devastating public health crisis.”

Journalist Suzanne Goldberg reports:

As part of its campaign, Peabody cites Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. But Redlener told the Guardian he had never heard of the company and that their claim has no “merit.”