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June 13th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Group
According to Journalists Suzanne Goldenberg and Helen Bengtsson, Peabody Energy “funded at least two dozen groups” that deny climate science.
Peabody has funneled money to “trade associations, corporate lobby groups, and industry front groups as well as conservative think tanks” such as:
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSGC)
• American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
• Oklahoma Chapter of Americans For Prosperity (AFP)
Court documents show that Peabody invested in organizations and corporations that “have fought Barack Obama’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and denied the very existence of climate change.”
In 2014, ALEC tried to change their climate denying image by writing a letter to 156 state lawmakers stating that “no ALEC model policy denies climate change” and added a position statement on renewable energy wherein they repeated their insistence that they are not a “climate denier organization”.
However, their Environmental Literacy Improvement program adopted in classrooms across the nation teach children to be skeptical of climate science under the guise of having a “balanced” view.
And on the legislative level, ALEC has opposed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) clean power plan because they said it as devoid of showing the climatic benefits of limiting coal-produced emissions; even though the entire plan is centered on climate change and the reduction of its effects.
AFP are known for distorting climate science. Their officials are “promoting untenable conspiracy theories to challenge” the scientific consensus that fossil fuel pollution caused by humans is warming the planet.
As far back as 2009, AFP held a summit funded by the Koch Brothers, with speaker Myron Ebell who said: “First I want to talk about global warming for a minute. Here’s the last 30 years. You’ll see for the last ten years we haven’t had any global warming. I think that shows the models are phony.”
Officials from the AFP have also claimed that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant” and argue that it’s a “falsehood” that sea levels are rising.
Through this organization, the Koch Brothers have been able to gain a foot-hold on climate science; however they have invested nearly $80 million into climate denial since 1997.
Through other groups like Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund , Koch has had the ability to influence policies and delay regulations aimed at mitigating or preventing global warming.
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