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.
Academia
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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.
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Denial to Delay: How Fossil-Funded University Research Lays the Foundation for Fossil-Friendly Policy
Molly Taft talks us through newly released reports on fossil fuel funding of university research, and share interviews with climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran, who authored one of the recent studies, and with philosopher of science Craig Callender at UCSD, which just passed a precedent-setting policy to require disclosure of funding on research.
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[Podcast] New Research Is Clear: Fossil Fuel-Funded University Research Is Warping Policy
Geoffrey Supran and Craig Callender discuss the link between fossil fuel-funded research in schools and policy.
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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
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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.
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Get ‘Em While They’re Young
Industry has been weaseling its way into educational materials and public schools for decades.