It’s one of the longest and most consequential efforts to undermine mainstream science by an industry. And it is now becoming more extreme.
@neelaeast unwinds the story: bit.ly/2kX2zUb
When he discovered in the early 1950s that oil was the cause of dangerous smog shrouding #LA, the American Petroleum Institute counter-attacked by funding scientists who rebutted his research and disparaged him personally.
Industry continues to fight attempts to tighten smog standards for ground-level ozone with considerable success.
Other fossil fuel companies followed Exxon's lead.