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How Big Oil has infiltrated universities and shaped climate research

Corporate Knights

The researchers, from Canada, the United States and Ireland, just published the first comprehensive review of academic and private research into the oil industry’s attempts to stymie and stifle climate science. “In The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.

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Take Five: US AGs Cast a Long Shadow

Chris Hall

This may be tested soon, given the AGs also demanded documents relating to the insurers’ membership of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance , to which several major insurers also belong. End of the line? – Phoenix Group, the new CA100+ Shell co-lead, is not walking way, but neither is it pinning its hopes on a rapid response.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Understanding early on that he would have to apply his scientific knowledge to real-world scenarios, Jacobson added an economics major to his academic pursuits. The fossil fuel divestment movement led by Bill McKibben’s 350.org (Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Then, in 1989, he attended UCLA and added a M.S. Companion Report.