Think-Tank-Funding

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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Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network

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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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George C. Marshall Institute Becomes Central Node in Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial

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By 1991, the George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) had evolved into a central node in the fossil fuel industry’s climate denial infrastructure, receiving funding from ExxonMobil and other energy companies to attack climate science. Founded in 1984 by physicists Frederick Seitz (former President …

George C. Marshall Institute Frederick Seitz Fred Singer Robert Jastrow William Nierenberg +2 more climate-denial think-tank-funding fossil-fuels scientific-disinformation fred-singer
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