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Biden’s “Nightmare” Climate Advisor is Connected to Energy Transition Team Members

By Rob Galbraith and Derek Seidman
November 18, 2020

A quarter of Biden’s energy transition team – including team head Arun Majumdar – have close ties to Ernest Moniz and the energy industry.

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Enbridge Defends Its Astroturf Playbook as it Pushes Line 3 Oil Pipeline

By Derek Seidman
July 22, 2019

Despite its denials, Enbridge’s Line 3 public relations strategy comes straight out of the fossil fuel industry’s astroturf playbook.

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Williams pipeline support highlights Environmental Defense Fund’s long, cozy relationship with fracking pseudoscience

By Rob Galbraith
June 25, 2019

Corporate-friendly environmental group has a long history of elevating fracking industry talking points disguised as empirical research

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Universities in Buffalo and Around New York State Back Lobbying Groups Opposing Climate Action

By Rob Galbraith
June 12, 2019

Schools around New York State – including the public university system – belong to groups lobbying against an ambitious climate bill

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Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz joins board of third largest carbon polluter

By Rob Galbraith
February 16, 2018

Obama cabinet member who touted fracking has joined the board of a company that funded climate change denial, fought the Clean Power Plan, and emits more carbon dioxide than all but two companies.

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UPDATE: University of Minnesota Duluth Professor Resigns from Board of Enbridge-Backed Group in Response to PAI Report

By Derek Seidman
December 21, 2017

Last month we reported on an industry-backed study on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline released by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Now one UMD professor has resigned from the group that commissioned the study.

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The University of Minnesota Duluth Sold Its Credibility to Enbridge. Can It Get It Back?

By Derek Seidman
November 15, 2017

Our new report shows how the University of Minnesota Duluth produced a Line 3 pipeline study backed by the fossil fuel industry. But organizers have confronted similar studies before — and found ways to challenge them.

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Frackademia study enshrined in official portrait of Obama Energy Secretary Moniz

By Rob Galbraith
August 3, 2017

The official portrait of Ernest Moniz, the Secretary of Energy during the second half of the Obama administration, includes an industry-funded study he led at MIT that was used to justify Obama’s embrace of fracking and expansion of liquefied natural gas exports.

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Industry-tied Department of Energy study finds gas exports will drive fracking, makes no mention of climate

By Rob Galbraith
December 30, 2015

On December 28, Bloomberg reported on a US Department of Energy analysis that found that increasing exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States would result in a 5% decrease in natural gas prices in Asia along with a 1% increase in US prices. The contracted researchers concluded that this would be a …

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