Tl;dr:

The answer is money, of course. Those industries whose profits derive from the status quo are pouring money into denying climate change and delaying responses to it.

The Climate and Development Lab at Brown is doing important work by dissecting this dizzying array of funders, policy shops, and supposedly independent groups (and the lawyers who link them, like #Marzulla Law L.L.C.). The letter from Marzulla is an attempt to cut off evidence-based research and the right of the public to know who is trying to influence policy (and, in this case, destroy the planet), enabled by the repressive policies of the Trump administration.

So please learn more about the work and research of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown University. They must be doing something right!

https://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/

#Climate #DarkMoney #Environment #HigherEd

And here's the link to the research that uses #Marzulla Law L.L.C. as one example of a networks of anti-offshore-wind groups and their lawyers in the Eastern U.S.

The report notes that the Marzullas have a long history of working on behalf of business and in favor of environmental exploitation, including working for (and in Roger's case leading) the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which received a large amount of its funding from the #Scaife Family Charitable Trusts. Nancy Marzulla founded Defenders of Property Rights, whose clients included #tobacco companies. DPR was also part of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a climate-change denialist network that included many of your least-favorite conservative institutions, such as the Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute.

And now #Marzulla Law L.L.C. is using environmental arguments to delay wind projects. As the report asks: why are the Marzulla’s defending whales against offshore wind developers today?

https://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/legal-entanglements-mapping-connections-of-anti-offshore-wind-groups-and-their-lawyers-in-the-easte

What this letter from #Marzulla Law L.L.C. threatening Brown University did, however (in addition to making me aware of how bent on the earth's destruction Marzulla Law L.L.C. is), was make me aware of the **excellent** research being done by Brown University's Climate and Development Lab, a collaboration between faculty and students.

Link to the article that used Green Oceans as a case study in "information subsidies" and other ways that organizations linked to and funded by climate denialists and the fossil fuel industry lay the groundwork for ostensibly independent groups like Green Oceans to wreak havoc on sustainability plans through campaigns heavy on emotional appeals and misrepresentation and light on (or entirely devoid of) support from actual scientific research.

https://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/beyond-dark-money-information-subsidies-and-complex-networks-of-opposition-to-offshore-wind-on-the

#Climate #FossilFuels #WindPower