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</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> y mail 6 23</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="outline: none !important;">New Blog: The American Petroleum Institute Loves Pennsylvania, As Its Lobbying Shows</strong><br style="outline: none !important;" /></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; outline: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As one of the top fossil fuel producing states, Pennsylvania is a key focus for the oil and gas industry. In fact, with $1.8 million spent in 2022 alone, the American Petroleum Institute reported spending more money on lobbying in Pennsylvania than in any other state last year</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://littlesis.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/url?u=142&qid=202931" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;">Read more</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from Aly Shaw at the LittleSis Eyes on the Ties blog. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;"><strong style="outline: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Blog: Fossil Fuel Directors’ Ties to University Boards Run Deep</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; outline: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">While Harvard professor Jody Freeman’s board seat at ConocoPhillips </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- and her lobbying on the company’s behalf -- has been in the headlines, directors from other Big Oil companies and dirty utilities are well-represented on university boards and in other higher ed roles. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We mapped out some key ties between the boards of Chevron, Marathon Petroleum, Valero, Southern Company and others to different universities and colleges. Some of the findings may be shocking -- for example, that the chair of the board of trustees of the very liberal Wesleyan University is a Chevron director or that three Chevron directors have prominent roles at<b> USC</b>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These relationships don’t only greenwash oil companies -- they throw into doubt the climate gestures made by universities who give fossil fuel directors governing roles at their institutions. </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://littlesis.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/url?u=143&qid=202931" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: none !important;">Read our latest blog post here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p></div></div>