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<div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">The Real News Network</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">Kert Davies interviewed by Dharna Noor on the Real News Network, April 2019. View the video above to watch the full Real News Network segment on CIC’s trade associations and public relations spending report.</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">Davies was also recently interviewed on the Real News Network where he outlined the origins of CIC’s 2019 trade association PR investigation, showcased the report’s findings, and discussed the purpose of trade association campaigns.</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">As discussed on the show, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">the money spent on PR contracts by renewable energy associations and fossil fuel associations was a major finding of CIC’s investigation. Of the almost $1.4 billion spent by trade associations in the past decade, only $98.4 million of it (7%) was spent by renewable energy associations</span>. In his interview, Davies elaborated, stating:</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><b>…it turns out that if you add all of [the renewable energy trade association PR contracts] up, including the ones that do biofuels and ethanol… they are a fraction of the total spending…<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> API alone is six times the total spending of all the renewable energy associations combined.</span></b></div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">API alone spent over six times more than the renewable energy trade associations we analyzed.</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">Davies also explains that this 2019 report was a continuation of a 2014 CIC investigation, which started with a survey to PR firms asking questions about their internal climate action plans, carbon tracking initiatives, and any client projects focused on climate change issues. As Davies explained, “Turns out, nobody had ever asked the PR companies these questions before, but we got some very interesting responses, including the biggest company, Edelman, who accidentally sent me an email saying ‘there are only wrong answers here, don’t respond.’”</div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><b>Edelman PR email replying to Kert Davies, "There are no right answers for this guy."</b></div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dharna Noor, host of the Real News Network segment, also highlighted Edelman’s connection to Koch Industries, “a key funder of climate change denial messaging.” As detailed in CIC’s investigation, Edelman was a frequent contractor to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, of which Koch Industries and its subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources, is a member.</span></div><div id="su-post-5103" class="su-post" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">The Intercept...</div>