National Public Radio's news broadcasts, Morning Edition and All Things Considered, are indispensible sources of trusted information for tens of millions of Americans. Yet NPR and its member stations accept and regularly run propagandistic advertisements from the fossil-fuel industry looking to greenwash their responsibility for the destruction of our climate. This conflicts with NPR's mission and offers a jarring disconnect to the work NPR's journalists are doing to honestly report the heat waves, storms, droughts, wildfires, and other deadly chaos caused by the oil, gas, and coal industry's greenhouse pollution. Furthermore, these advertisements are part of a deliberate, decades-long campaign by the industry to subvert our political system and deceive the public about the dangers of their highly profitable product.

It is already NPR policy to refuse advertisments on "cigarettes (including electronic cigarettes or nicotine vapor devices), tobacco, marijuana, gambling and other products subject to abuse" as well as "prescription drug products, FDA regulated medical devices, or devices or supplements that make claims that only a regulated drug or medical device could make."

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels pass 420 parts per million and the CO2-equivalent of all greenhouse pollution passes 450 ppm, now is the time for NPR to stop accepting advertisements from the fossil-fuel industry.