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         A HISTORY OF  INDUSTRY INFLUENCE

In order to support the continued use of oil and gas, fossil fuel companies have funded research centers that focus on energy, the environment, and climate change at universities across the United States for years. This has damaged academic integrity and delayed climate action. In addition to divesting, universities must stop accepting fossil fuel funding for research. 

​Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education:

A review and a research agenda

impact of fossil fuel funding on research

 

9/5/2024 WIREs Climate Change ​Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda

 

12/13/2022 Nature Universities: cut research links with fossil-fuel companies 

11/ 2022 Nature Climate Change  "Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres"

"fossil-funded centres are more favourable in their reports towards natural gas than towards renewable energy, and tweets are more favourable when they mention funders by name. Centres less dependent on fossil funding show a reversed pattern with more neutral sentiment towards gas, and favour solar and hydro power."

10/2022 Nature Academia–industry ties under scrutiny

9/2022 British Medical Journal (BMJ)  Stealing from the tobacco playbook, fossil fuel companies pour money into elite American universities

In 1998, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest US trade association for the oil and gas industry, laid out a plan to defeat government action on climate change through a multimillion dollar programme, to be enacted over several years. Part of this plan was to create a centre with a board of climate scientists that would have the mission of advancing scientific uncertainty. ... When this proposed policy leaked to the media, the American Petroleum Institute denied implementing it. But two years later, in 2000, British Petroleum and Ford motor company donated a combined $20m to Princeton to launch the first major programme at an American university to tackle climate change. In 2020, Princeton extended its partnership with ExxonMobil to advance new forms of research on carbon capture technology...

8/2022 New York Times Every Dollar Spent on This Climate Technology Is a Waste

"In an effort to capture and store carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel-burning power plants, the Department of Energy has allocated billions of dollars for failed C.C.S. demonstration projects. The bankruptcy of many of these hugely subsidized undertakings makes plain the failure of C.C.S. to reduce emissions economically."

10/12/2017 Union of Concerned Scientists The Fossil Fuel Industry Hid the Truth about Its Funding of Fracking Research

2/21/2015 NYT Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

12/12/2012 NPR Conflicts, Errors Revealed In Positive Fracking Study

 

 

resources & articles 

9/5/2024 The Guardian University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

9/5/2024 The Financial Times  University ties to fossil fuel industry face growing scrutiny

9/6/2024  Grist How Big Oil’s big money influences climate research

9/6/2024 Inside Climate News Fossil Fuel Funding Is ‘Embedded’ Across Academia. What Does That Mean for Climate Research?

9/13/2024  Fast Company  Big Oil has its claws in academia—this study proves it

9/6/2024 Red, Green and Blue Fossil fuel companies have embedded themselves in universities across the US

May 2023 The Chronicle of Higher Education Big Oil Helped Shape Stanford’s Latest Climate-Research Focuss

 

April 2023 Sacramento Bee The University of California system must stop taking millions from big oil | Opinion

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article274698871.html#storylink=cpy

April 2023 Exxon Knew Shell sold out the planet for short term profits, new documents show

April 2022 PBS - FrontlineThe Power of Big Oil - 3 part series 

 

April 2022 Tricks of the Trade: Deceptive Practices, Climate Delay and Greenwashing In The Oil and Gas Industry

Drilled Season 7The ABCs of Big Oil, a collaboration with Earther: Big Oil infiltrated schools across the country. Inside the campaign to miseducate American students. Season 7 episodes and transcripts

 

February 16. 2022 The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments

September 28, 2021 Tracing Big Oil’s PR war to delay action on climate change

September 16, 2021 U.S. House panel to probe oil companies over climate disinformation

The New Yorker 5/7/20 Big Oil’s Reign Is Finally Weakening

Forbes 3/25/19 Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies

Guardian 3/13/17 The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia

 

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