{"id":72983,"date":"2019-10-11T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=72983"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:17:00","slug":"revealed-google-made-large-contributions-to-climate-change-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/revealed-google-made-large-contributions-to-climate-change-deniers\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Google Made Large Contributions to Climate Change Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>Firm\u2019s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong><a data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/11\/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Google has made&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/services.google.com\/fh\/files\/misc\/trade_association_and_third_party_groups.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201csubstantial\u201d contributions<\/a>&nbsp;to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/jun\/01\/donald-trump-confirms-us-will-quit-paris-climate-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump administration to abandon the Paris&nbsp;<\/a><a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/jun\/01\/donald-trump-confirms-us-will-quit-paris-climate-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement<\/a>&nbsp;and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><a data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":72984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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