A Billionaire Who Funds Climate Denial Is No Longer on American Museum of Natural History Board
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Earther February 26, 2020
A Billionaire Who Funds Climate Denial Is No Longer on American Museum of Natural History Board
Billionaire Rebekah Mercer, who with her father Robert Mercer has poured millions of dollars into climate-denying organizations, candidates, and media, is off the board of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
CLIMATE CHANGE
Oregon Republicans Are On the Run Again Over Climate Bill Vote
For the second time in less than a year, Republicans have fled the Oregon Statehouse rather than fulfill their duty as elected officials.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Study Shows Big Oil Rewards Members of Congress With Cash After Anti-Environment Votes
It’s no secret that the oil and gas industry is in the pockets of our elected officials. I mean, a climate denier doesn’t sit in the White House by accident, right? A new study, however, confirms just how powerful contributions from the oil and gas sector can be.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Largest Bank in the US Will Not Fund Fossil Fuel Extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The largest bank in the U.S. will no longer fund drilling in the Arctic, according to its newly released its environmental and social policy framework.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Here's the Pro-Bernie Climate Scientist Op-Ed the Washington Post Wouldn't Run
On Sunday, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Fred Hiatt, the opinion page’s editor, entitled “How Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Reject the Reality of Climate Change.” This false equivalence is, to put it bluntly, absolutely one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Deniers Are Out of Ideas
Folks, the Washington Post had itself a Sunday night. The paper inexplicably published a puff piece on the “anti-Greta,” a German teen peddling soft climate denial who’s being supported by a group of old white guys at the Heartland Institute.
GIZ ASKS
What's the Most Toxic Chemical?
People say America doesn’t make things anymore. But what about toxic chemicals? We make so many of those, we throw half of them in rivers, for free. The problem is, it can be hard to get a handle on which of those chemicals are extremely toxic and which of them...
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
In a Stunning Reversal, Company Realizes Its Giant Oil Sands Project Is a Poor Investment
In the middle of Canada’s majestic boreal forests, Vancouver-based Teck Resources Limited had proposed building one of the world’s largest oil sands mines. The Frontier Project would’ve stretched across more than 72,000 acres in Alberta, mining an area roughly the size of Arches National Park in Utah.
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