No fracking for the Magic Kingdom? Disney abandons oil-sponsored schools programme

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Radio Disney ditches partnership with initiative that sought to educate children on fossil fuel technologies

A series of events that read like the perfect case study in how to inadvertently undermine a brand's environmental credentials culminated late last week in the news that a Walt Disney media company has...

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