The Clean Creatives pledge commits agencies, creatives, and strategists to refuse any future contracts with fossil fuel companies, trade associations, or front groups. The entities covered by this pledge include:

  • Companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, transportation, or sale of oil, gas, or coal

  • Utilities and Electric Cooperatives that meet one or more of the following criteria:

    • Generate 50% or more of their electricity from fossil fuels

    • Generate 50% or more of their revenue from business in fossil fuels

    • Play an active role in funding new fossil fuel infrastructure

  • Trade associations or other industry-funded nonprofit groups representing the interests of these companies, utilities, or cooperatives

  • Any new entity meant to advance the message or goals of the above companies or groups, while obscuring or hiding their financial contributions.

Companies:

For ease of identification, please refer to the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge’s list of fossil fuel companies, which is a reliable reference to identify fossil fuel corporations engaged in efforts to exert their influence over the public. This link includes a list, and more information about the methodology for creating it: http://nofossilfuelmoney.org/company-list/

Note: Gasoline-service-station executives, lobbyists, and PACs are not included in this list of fossil fuel companies, because service stations derive the large majority of their profits from concessions, not fossil fuels.

Associations and front groups:

Entities covered by the pledge include trade associations (such as the American Petroleum Institute) that work on behalf of fossil fuel industry member groups, such as:

  • An oil and gas trade association such as those on this list by Energy Personnel

  • A coal trade association such as these:

  • American Coal Council

  • American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity

  • Coal-to-Liquids Coalition

  • Coal Utilization Research Council

  • Lignite Energy Council

  • National Council of Coal Lessors

  • National Mining Association

  • World Coal Association

  • State-based coal associations like the Illinois Coal Association, Kentucky Coal Association, Pennsylvania Coal Association, etc.