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Faculty and Alumni Demand that University of Arizona Kick Koch Money Off Campus

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, a grassroots organisation of faculty members and alumni at the University of Arizona and local Tucson residents, staged a day of action to highlight the encroachment of corporate influences on public institutions and public educational facilities in Ar Tags: kochs off campus unkoch my campus University of Arizona Koch Charles Koch

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Koch Academic Influence Returns to Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank

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Read time: 3 mins When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year , Boston-based media described it as a “ CBO -like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent analysis” of proposed state policy and legislation.

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How Charles Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments

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Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs, like the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

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Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry's Legacy of White Supremacy

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But according to University of Notre Dame historian Darren Douchuk, Tabuchi’s tweet reflected something real. Tags: racism ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) FTI Consulting ExxonMobil complained the tweet was a “baseless claim alleging industry links to white supremacy,” and Tabuchi later deleted it.

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The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America

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Read time: 6 mins By Jill Johnston , University of Southern California and Lara Cushing , University of California, Los Angeles. Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health This large rural region near the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border is known for its persistent poverty. shale play , producing more than 1.2

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Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured

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Schade , Texas A&M University. Tags: flaring Bakken Shale Permian Basin Texas Railroad Commission Read time: 6 mins By Gunnar W. If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. Over the past 10 years, the U.S.

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Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'

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After visiting a couple locations along the river banks affected by the spill, Mark Benfield, an oceanographer and plastic pollution expert at Louisiana State University, estimated that nearly 750 million of these lentil-sized plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, could have been lost in the river.

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