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Fossil fuel companies have spent $1 billion since the Paris Agreement was signed on greenwashing their image.
Lamar Alexander has taken $1.2 million from them, and his "Ten Grand Challenges" look an awful lot like that industry's greenwash wishlist.
Lamar Alexander has taken $1.2 million from them, and his "Ten Grand Challenges" look an awful lot like that industry's greenwash wishlist.
The biggest fossil fuel industry players are multinational corporations. Formal climate denial has been largely a US phenomena, and one they're very happy with. But on the world stage they've long had a different approach than funding junk science and crackpot deniers
Industry representatives have been crawling over UN climate talks for years mucking it up. Organizers in the US have shifted the Overton window away from old school climate denial and that's great! What the industry has lined up next isn't any better, and arguably more dangerous
If the fossil fuel industry isn't enormously pissed off by a climate plan, it's probably a bad climate plan. In sum:
