Largest US coal mining company funded heart and soul of climate denial

[Second Summer]

Peabody Energy, America’s biggest coalmining company, has funded at least two dozen groups that cast doubt on manmade climate change and oppose environment regulations, analysis by the Guardian reveals.

The funding spanned trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative thinktanks and was exposed in court filings last month.

The coal company also gave to political organisations, funding twice as many Republican groups as Democratic ones.

More: Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change (13. June 2016)

What is interesting is the scale of their climate denial funding.

Also, I note that Richard Berman of "PeTA kills animals" and Center for Consumer Freedom fame was on their pay list.

 

[Andy_T]

Well, who else? He's something like the godfather or unsavoury lobbying....

 

[Andy_T]

So can we expect the denial of climate change to reduce now that there is no more money in it (with the coal companies going bankrupt) ?

Or has this been taken up happily now by the Republican establishment, so no more financial motivation is needed?