“These groups collectively are the heart and soul of climate denial,” said Kert Davies, founder of the Climate Investigation Center, who has spent 20 years tracking funding for climate denial. The coal company also gave to political organisations, funding twice as many Republican groups as Democratic ones. Peabody refused to comment on its funding for climate denial groups, as revealed by the bankruptcy filings. Environmental campaigners said they had not known for certain that the company was funding an array of climate denial groups – and that the breadth of that funding took them by surprise. Earlier this year, bankruptcy filings from the country’s second-biggest coal company, Arch Coal Inc, revealed funding to a group known mainly for its unsuccessful lawsuit against the climate scientist Michael Mann.

Source: The Guardian June 13, 2016 09:56 UTC