From curricula to games, comic books, and films, fossil fuel companies spend millions to infiltrate schools. They’ve been doing it for more than a century…what are they actually trying to do and how successful have they been?
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In Texas, High Schools Bet on a Bright Future for Oil and Gas Careers Under Trump
The fossil fuel industry pumps millions into preparing highschoolers for jobs as lease operators, technicians and more. The president’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ has reinvigorated that work.
Inside the Fight to Get Australia’s Monash University to Divorce Fossil Fuels for Good
One of Australia’s most prestigious universities promised to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. It later revised this decision to say it would only divest from coal, allowing the country’s biggest oil…
Fossil Fuels Fund Academia. Now What?
Despite decades of donations and research footed by the industry, we’re just now beginning to understand how much fossil fuel money has shaped academia.
How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda into Schools
STEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for fossil fuel companies to indoctrinate children
Research or Lobbying? New Documents Reveal What Fossil Fuel Companies Are Really Paying for at Top Universities
A new batch of subpoenaed documents show what fossil fuel companies are getting for their university research donations.
Get ‘Em While They’re Young
Industry has been weaseling its way into educational materials and public schools for decades.
How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination
How fossil fuel companies have infiltrated higher education.
How the ‘Father of Forestry’ Inspired Big Oil
How the fossil fuel industry instilled a particular understanding of the economy and the environment in American highschoolers.
