The Execs Bashing Trump’s Paris Withdrawal Are Also Funding Climate-Change Deniers - News Summed Up

The Execs Bashing Trump’s Paris Withdrawal Are Also Funding Climate-Change Deniers


But many of those same CEOs have supported ― through either corporate or personal giving ― Republican candidates who espouse climate-change denial. HuffPost asked 15 high-profile executives who publicly denounced the president’s decision if they would stop funding such Republicans deniers. In the Senate, where Democrats had a credible shot at retaking the chamber, the PAC gave $140,500 to Republican senators, compared with $90,500 for Democrats. Facebook gave to 37 Republican senators. Disney CEO Bog Iger and Tesla CEO Elon Musk both withdrew from Trump’s business advisory council over their disagreement with the president’s decision on the Paris Agreement.


Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2017 21:57 UTC



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