🔥🌎 NEW: Opposing offshore wind. Promoting coal. Crafting so-called 'energy boycott' laws. The Texas Public Policy Foundation, which has received $$ from Big Oil and the Koch network, is a potent force obstructing the national transition to clean energy.

nytimes.com/2022/12/04/cli… In the Northeast, TPPF is suing to block construction of Vineyard Wind, the nation's first big offshore wind farm. The group also put out slick videos casting the project as a threat to food security.

🌎🔥 Today I asked World Bank president @DavidMalpassWBG if he believed in the scientific consensus that the man made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet.

“I’m not a scientist,” he said.

Here’s a thread about the remarkable exchange. 🧵 1/ The context: Under Malpass, who was appointed by Trump, the World Bank has come under intense criticism - from the UN, Biden admin, experts - for failing to act urgently enough on climate.

For example, the Bank is still funding fossil fuel projects. 2/

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
nytimes.com/2022/09/14/cli… In a move with no precedent in the business world, Chouinard, along with his family, have forfeited all their shares in Patagonia, a company valued at about $3 billion, renouncing their status as one of the wealthiest families in the US. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/cli…

NEW: Republican treasurers are working with dark money conservative groups to promote fossil fuels and slow efforts to combat climate change.

I reviewed +10,000 pages of emails and documents that revealed their tactics, and ties to the oil industry.
nytimes.com/2022/08/05/cli… Last week, the WV treasurer said BlackRock, JPM and other banks were barred from state work bcuz they're doing less biz with coal companies.

Expect more such bans. TX, KY, TENN and OK have already passed similar laws, and many more are in the works. nytimes.com/2022/07/28/bus…

Corner Office with @SnoopDogg nytimes.com/2021/07/30/bus… "Did you pay for the version with the kids, the G-rated Addams Family movie? Or did you pay for the rated-R Snoop Dogg, the one the adults like?" nytimes.com/2021/07/30/bus…

NEW: Amazon, Buffett and 100s more unite in the biggest show of solidarity to date, as the business community rallies against Republican efforts to pass restrictive new voting laws. w @andrewrsorkin nytimes.com/2021/04/14/bus… WE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY -- 100s of companies and exec sign this letter opposing "any discriminatory legislation." Ad appeared in the NYT and @washingtonpost today. w / @andrewrsorkin nytimes.com/2021/04/14/bus…

Trump just promised a Covid vaccine for all Americans by April.

Before that can happen, we'll need to develop a safe/effective vaccine.

And we'll need to figure out how to transport it at minus 80°C – colder than South Pole in winter. It's not easy. nytimes.com/2020/09/18/bus… A number of the leading Covid-19 vaccines under development will need to be kept at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit) from the moment they are bottled to the time they are ready to be injected into patients’ arms.

NEW: Boeing scored one of its biggest ever lobbying wins last year: a law that undercuts the government’s role in approving the design of new airplanes. The law was passed in spite of safety concerns raised by the FAA. Big investigation w @nataliekitro
nytimes.com/2019/10/27/bus… The FAA has relied on companies for help with certification for decades. But the balance of power keeps shifting in favor of industry. The new law lets companies like Boeing challenge regulators over safety disputes and gives them new sway of the FAA.
nytimes.com/2019/10/27/bus…

LIVE THREAD: Highlights from the @nytimes coverage of Boeing and the fallout from the two 737 Max crashes. Check below for updates, or click here: nytimes.com/topic/company/… Lion Air Flight 610 crashed on October 28, 2018, killing all 189 aboard. The cause remained a mystery at first, but experts puzzled over what could have brought down a brand new Boeing 737 Max. nytimes.com/2018/10/28/wor…

Ken Griffin's $238 million apartment sale isn't just the priciest ever American home sale. It's a parable of our times. @kitastew and I get into it here. 1/ nytimes.com/2019/01/24/nyr… First thing to know: 220 Central Park South is built on the site of a formerly rent stabilized building. Former residents were evicted, and the building was demolished. 2/