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"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.

Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.

Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."

Big Oil document dump spotlights industry influence in academia

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Big Oil document dump spotlights industry influence in academia - E&E News by POLITICO

Democrats will focus on what they see as damning evidence of the industry's inaction on climate change during a hearing Wednesday.

^{Emma Dumain, Corbin Hiar (E&E News)}