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Fossil fuel influence enabled Trump's attacks on university research, study says
Original: Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says https:// slrpnk.net/po
A new study argues that decades of fossil fuel industry funding and influence over American universities helped lay the groundwork for the Trump administration's current assaults on university research. The finding links corporate climate denial and industry-backed science on campus to today's political attacks on academic institutions, drawing attention on left-leaning social media.
Why now: The Trump administration's cuts to university research funding are a live controversy, and the study reframes them as the culmination of long-running fossil fuel influence on academia.
Donald Trumpfossil fuel industryUS universitiesTrump administration
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- Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says https:// slrpnk.net/post/43221343 · silence7@slrpnk.net · 2
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