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ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups

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ExxonMobil significantly expanded its climate denial funding operation in 2003, channeling millions of dollars to a network of think tanks and front groups designed to manufacture doubt about climate science. The oil giant gave £3.5 million ($4.8 million) to climate skeptic organizations in the …

ExxonMobil American Enterprise Institute Cato Institute Marshall Institute International Policy Network +1 more climate-denial dark-money think-tank-funding fossil-fuels disinformation +1 more
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Powell Memorandum Institutional Network Establishes Systematic Crisis Coordination with WHIG Operations

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The complete Powell Memorandum institutional network—including American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Hoover Institution, Federalist Society, and coordinated corporate media—establishes systematic coordination with WHIG operations for crisis-accelerated implementation of institutional …

American Enterprise Institute Cato Institute Hoover Institution Federalist Society White House Iraq Group +5 more powell-memorandum-acceleration institutional-network-coordination whig-think-tank-merger crisis-exploitation-infrastructure systematic-capture-acceleration +4 more
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Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network

| Importance: 9/10

Koch Family Foundations began systematic funding of climate science denial and clean energy opposition, eventually spending $145,555,197 directly financing 90 groups attacking climate science and policy solutions from 1997-2018. The Koch network funneled $127,006,756 to 92 organizations from …

Koch Industries Charles Koch David Koch Koch Family Foundations Cato Institute +4 more climate-denial regulatory-capture fossil-fuels think-tank-funding political-influence
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