Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says

Reported by The Guardian World · yesterday 14:00 · Sara Sneath

Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argueRecent attacks on US universities by the Trump administration have built on decades of efforts by libertarian donor networks, fossil fuel companies and conservative thinktanks…

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