Rebecca John just published remarkable new research on DeSmog on how oil companies use donations and sponsorships of art museums, theater productions and even The Girl Scouts and the US Olympic Committee, to promote their brands, improve their reputation, to essentially buy credibility. While this is not a new notion or finding, the evidence in this investigation is quite recent, and previously unreported.| Climate Investigations Center
Below is an annotated collection of documents gathered through the years amassing evidence of corporate efforts to deny the connection between climate change and extreme weather events. There are two major blocks of evidence: They knew climate change would cause extreme weather: Corporate entities “knew” extreme weather would be an impact of anthropogenic climate change. […]| Climate Files
The history of the United States’ involvement in global environmental agreements is a checkered one to say the least. With this project we seek to draw back the curtain and uncover the history of corporate influence on US positions at UN negotiations. New evidence discovered by the Climate Investigations Center reveals that corporate interests, specifically petroleum, chemical and auto companies, were corrupting the US government’s approach to UN environmental initiatives going back to th...| Climate Investigations Center