About: Steve Coll is an American journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and the current dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Coll authored the book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. Additionally, in 2004, he published the book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From […]
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BlackRock
About: BlackRock is a large investment firm based in New York City. Notable Connections:Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Rockefellers; Ceres Financials: In 2014, BlackRock started a fossil free fund, which is valued at about $291,146,041. The NRDC invested $66 million of its own money into BlackRock’s Fossil Free fund in 2015. Of Note: In […]
DeSmog Blog
About: The DeSmog Blog was founded by Jim Hoggan in 2006. The website, which aims to clear “the PR pollution that clouds climate science,” and is run out of his public relations firm, James Hoggan & Associates, which partnered with the global climate change initiative, Tck Tck Tck. DeSmog Blog is listed as a case […]
350.org
About: International environmental action group dedicated to “Stop Fossil Fuels”, “350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all.” Its name derives from the […]