Dan Kammen, professor of energy at University of California at Berkeley and a former adviser to both the US government and the United Nations on climate, led one of the research groups that benefitted from one of the largest fossil fuel gifts ever made to any university, BP’s $500m donation to the Energy and Biosciences Institute – a consortium that includes Berkeley, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab–to study biofuels. He sees schools like Posewitz’s that have a longstanding relationship with the fossil fuel industry as fundamentally different from schools like his that prioritize climate research.
“Places like Colorado School of Mines or University of Texas that actively court and work for the fossil fuel industry are a different story,” he said.
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