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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>when corp FF denial exposed, fallback to trade groups main API NAM (NMA), but as those exposed less safety/cover/buffer, fallback to 2ndary trade assoc</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>which provide deniability [also $ gets hidden laundered thru DAF and these 2ndary orgs eg CFACT, EID IPAA</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-align="text-align" center="center" text-transform="text-transform" uppercase="uppercase" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bOMBSHELL:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND</span> BEHIND THE “PAY UP CLIMATE POLLUTERS” CAMPAIGN</font></span></div><div><div class="article-info w-clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 0px solid rgb(199, 199, 199); text-align: justify;"><h1 class="article-date" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 22px 0px 10px; line-height: 32px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">JANUARY 15, 2020 | </span>SPENCER WALRATH</font></h1><div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttonz" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div class="content-container w-clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) gave the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) over $1 million to launch an aggressive climate litigation campaign against America’s top energy producers, according to a new Energy In Depth analysis of New York state <a href="https://www.charitiesnys.com/RegistrySearch/show_details.jsp?id=%7bCFF4BB76-3F74-46B9-AF17-90F3A90AF78E%7d" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">tax disclosures</a>. IGSD’s <b>Center for Climate Integrity (CCI)</b> is the nexus for lobbying efforts, studies, amicus briefs, events, and social media campaigns <a href="http://www.payupclimatepolluters.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">aimed</a> at pressuring states and municipalities to sue energy companies for the costs of climate change.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the years, RFF has made numerous attempts to conceal their grantees; they have no public grantee database and have failed to post a complete federal tax return, including all donations, since 2013. However, our analysis of New York state tax disclosures reveals RFF’s highly coordinated effort to fund an aggressive climate litigation campaign against energy producers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Climate Integrity’s Million Dollar Launch</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before launching CCI in August of 2017, IGSD was receiving just under $4 million in grants annually. RFF’s $1,020,000 grant marked a huge influx of funding to the organization – all earmarked for CCI or the Climate Education & Litigation Project (CCI’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180125192841/https:/www.climateliabilitynews.org/about-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">original</a> name). This grant was also RFF’s largest donation to a single organization, excluding other charitable funds, that year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since the launch of CCI, IGSD’s grant revenue has </span><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/810616238/05_2019_prefixes_77-81%2F810616238_201806_990_2019051516303751" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">more than doubled</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to nearly $10 million. The organization does not disclose its full list of funders, but a recent investigation by</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">RealClear Investigations</b><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </i></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">revealed that CCI received a $7 million grant from a </span><a href="https://eidclimate.org/revealed-foreign-billionaire-behind-the-group-pushing-american-cities-to-sue-energy-producers/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">foreign billionaire</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 2018. CCI has </span><a href="https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/06/20/florida-could-face-76-billion-in-climate-change-costs-by-2040-report-says/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">dodged</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> questions about its institutional funders when pressed by reporters.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While obscuring its funding, CCI has become the public face of the campaign to sue American energy producers for the costs of climate change. CCI’s aggressive public relations efforts have included <a href="https://www.energyindepth.org/exxonknew-attempts-to-reset-flailing-campaign-witha-billboard/?154" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">billboards</a>, a <a href="https://eidclimate.org/activists-admit-climate-litigation-is-about-silencing-dissent-not-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">podcast</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Exxon_Knew" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">social media</a>, events in cities like <a href="https://mfgaccountabilityproject.org/2019/04/25/union-of-concerned-scientists-events-in-colorado-reject-consensus-based-climate-solutions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Boulder</a> and <a href="https://www.law.hawaii.edu/article/university-hawai%E2%80%99i-william-s-richardson-school-law-hosts-event-climate-change-litigation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Honolulu</a> to promote climate litigation, and a “<a href="https://eidclimate.org/climate-costs-report-is-just-another-rockefeller-funded-climate-litigation-campaign-tactic/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">study</a>” encouraging public officials to seek damages from energy companies. In addition, the organization <a href="https://flarecord.com/stories/512480648-fort-lauderdale-says-it-has-no-intention-of-filing-suit-against-fossil-fuel-companies-over-climate-change" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">hired a lobbyist</a> to arrange meetings between city officials and plaintiffs’ attorneys on climate litigation and submitted an <a href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Center-for-Climate-Integrity-Amicus.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">amicus brief</a> in support of an ongoing climate case.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RFF is Directly Funding Litigation, Astroturfing, and Journalism Too</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RFF’s grant to IGSD isn’t their only recent contribution to climate litigation. Since 2016, the organization has provided at least $525,0000 to three nonprofit organizations pursuing climate litigation against energy companies – the Conservation Law Foundation, EarthRights International, and the Niskanen Center. Since 2014, RFF has given at least $140,000 to Resource Media, an organization <a href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Media-Bond-Analysis-Press-Release-FINAL-4-30-18-002.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">hired</a> by plaintiffs’ firm Sher Edling to provide public affairs and media consulting services for their climate lawsuits against energy producers.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other notable grants include:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 1em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$430,000 to InsideClimate News and the Columbia School of Journalism between 2015-2016, coinciding with the pair’s <a href="https://eidclimate.org/columbia-journalism-review-faults-columbia-la-times-for-improper-disclosure-of-anti-oil-and-gas-funding/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">“investigative” series</a> into ExxonMobil and launch of the “Exxon Knew” campaign</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$30,000 in 2017 to 350.org, the architect of the #ExxonKnew social media campaign</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$50,000 in 2016 to the Nebraska Easement Action Team “to build a public education campaign to support a state investigation on Exxon’s deception about climate change”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000 in 2017 to the Sunrise Movement, an organization that <a href="https://www.energyindepth.org/environmental-activist-group-lies-to-reporters-in-colorado-sends-out-fake-press-release/?158" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">distributed a forged press release</a> maligning a Colorado energy company earlier this year.</font></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RFF’s Obsession with Attacking American Energy Companies</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RFF’s recent contributions to climate litigation provide additional evidence that the Rockefeller family <a href="https://eidclimate.org/how-the-rockefellers-manufactured-the-climate-liability-campaign/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">manufactured and continues to wage</a> a smear campaign against America’s energy producers. RFF and its sister organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, have been backing organizations pursuing climate litigation against energy companies <a href="https://eidclimate.org/an-orchestrated-campaign/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">for years</a>. In 2016, the pair even hosted a strategy session at their joint New York headquarters in 2016 to “<a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Entire-January-meeting-agenda-at-RFF-1-1.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">delegitimize</a>” ExxonMobil and develop a coordinated social media and messaging campaign to damage the company’s reputation. Later that year, David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman, president and director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, released a <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/the-rockefeller-family-fund-vs-exxon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">series</a> of <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/rockefeller-family-fund-takes-on-exxon-mobil/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">articles</a> to falsely malign the company.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the Rockefellers’ best efforts, ExxonMobil and other energy companies continue to prevail in the courtroom.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December, New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager <a href="https://eidclimate.org/new-yorks-loss-against-exxon-casts-a-shadow-on-related-cases-filed-in-massachusetts-elsewhere/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">highlighted</a> ExxonMobil’s exemplary conduct in his verdict, ruling in favor of the company in their legal battle with the New York attorney general:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 20px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(55, 165, 255); line-height: 22px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Office of the Attorney General offered no testimony from any investor who claims to have been misled… What the evidence at trial revealed is that ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In dismissing climate lawsuits brought by San Francisco and Oakland, Judge William Alsup <a href="https://eidclimate.org/in-landmark-ruling-federal-judge-tosses-calif-climate-lawsuits/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">explained</a> that litigation is inappropriate for addressing climate change.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 20px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(55, 165, 255); line-height: 22px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The dangers raised in the complaints are very real. But those dangers are worldwide. Their causes are worldwide. The benefits of fossil fuels are worldwide. The problem deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">For all their talk about solving climate change, perhaps the Rockefellers should invest their millions into climate solutions, rather than politically-motivated campaigns that do nothing to further climate progress.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 22 aha analysis: <b> ukraine watershed</b>: GOP/Rt has always used national security (strict ft/macho) to beat up of Dems (soft on communism, crime etc) [tho gubmint waste fraud and abuse is never committed by pentagon or military no bid contractor corps that are huge dark $ donors], and national debt bogeyman never a problem with military spending, 2021 gave $20B more than they asked FOR?]]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gop likes to conflate national security with oil supply [tho heaven forbid we would ever go to war in Gulf twice for oil; cheney secret energy task force of FF ceos requested maps of Iranian oilfields]; US military is greatest user of oil/polluter in world aviva chomsky 3 22];</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Occupy network morphed into DAPL etc Water Protectors pipeline resistance, which was effective {Fusion/Feds backed off when veterans started to show up to have their backs after the battle of Backwater Bridge] so early and major Trump donor ETP kelcy needed better tool to beat up/suppress activist, so eco-terror gets resurrected and amped up as Critical Infrastructure = nat'l security [so non-violent hippies and native Am now domestic terrorists]; also good for Press Suppression [and activist suppression thru LEGAL like make DAPL folks come back to appear in ct [mult times ?] a year later just to be postponed?]; initial try to make it OK to run over protestors stymied for a while by HH in Charlottesville [PBUH] but eventually passed in mult states?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Putin is the biggest FF CEO of all, and a fascist [originally "corporatism" under Il Dulce // Il Donald]]; ukraine invasion blamed on Greta and Biden green policy BBB; GOP EPW BS Sea Change [CRC] resurrected 3rd time that Greens took Putin $, tho debunked years ago [NottheEPA is Berman Dr Evil, also Legal/Legislative Suppression]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the old mantra was "energy independence" from unstable or even hostile oil states, but morphed into "energy dominance" during frack fight/trump era? now morphing again to energy security at least in concept with Ukraine invasion, lead to a watershed: do we recognize that war gives us one more good reason, as it we needed one, to phase out FF or do we double down/drill baby drill? API is pushing hard for latter, FOX repeating endlessly [bonus gives them cover from Putin boosting?]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">china hoax is trump conspiracy theory: also related to chicom putin dirty money dark funnelled to green orgs Sea Change in an attempt to undermine our American oil corps/industry/economy</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sir Chris Hohn "foreign billionaire" [Soros vs Koch?]</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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