'Libertarian billionaires such as ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and Koch Industries....have orchestrated multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar propaganda campaigns to sabotage science and undermine action.'
7. American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers—$1.5 million
From 2015–18, the trade association donated to the American Energy Alliance , the 501 affiliate of the Institute for Energy Research; Heartland ; and the Competitive Enterprise Institute . The group did not make any contributions in 2018, and tax records for 2019 and 2020 are not yet publicly available.Billionaire oil executive Charles Koch doled out at least $1.5 million to five climate misinformation organizations through two of his foundations.
From 2014–18, Vanguard Charitable donated almost $1 million to the Heartland Institute. Between 2017 and 2020, it also gave nearly $70,000 to the VDARE Foundation, a white nationalist hate group, with the largest amount given in 2020., Vanguard responded to CMD's request for comment with a standard statement glossing over concerns about the ethics of funding groups that help fossil fuel companies destroy the environment or demonize non-white people.
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