Australian oil, gas and coal companies want to get into school to shape what kids learn about their industry and climate change. One group has been trying to map the scale of the problem.
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Carbon Captured
An investigation by Drilled and ProPublica has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas and coal. […]
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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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False Promises: Why carbon capture and storage won’t fix our climate crisis.
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
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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.
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Welcome to the World of Obstruction
Everyone agrees that the reason the world hasn’t acted on climate has less to do with science or technology than with political will. So, how do you build it? And what’s stopping it being built?
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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 and gas company, Woodside, to fund and name a center. As that partnership comes up for renewal at the end of 2025, students and faculty are pushing the university to reconsider.
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Fossil-funded Academic Work Is Being Used to Avoid Paying Workers Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Academic research paid for by BP and Exxon is being used to combat workers’ claims that exposure to oil and chemical dispersants made them ill.
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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.