#FossilFuel companies donated $700m to #US universities over 10 years
#Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, report says
The study was created from publicly available data, including tax-form 990s from fossil fuel company foundations, annual reports from both universities and oil companies, and press releases or media coverage, it’s an imperfect approach, but it is enough to give some hint of how much money fossil fuel companies are investing in research that has a real impact on policy.
“These research projects have real-life implications – for example a lot of the fossil fuel-funded research has re-centered natural gas in the conversation about renewables,” Bella Kumar, lead author of the Data for Progress report, said.