Brown University Study Exposes Oil-Funded Legal Campaign Against Offshore Wind Energy
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Summary
A Brown University report reveals how oil-funded groups and their connected law firms are using strategic harassment, bogus lawsuits, and disinformation campaigns to oppose offshore wind energy projects. The Climate & Development Lab study exposes the connections between anti-wind groups, fossil fuel industry interests, and legal professionals who then threatened the researchers when their network was exposed.
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Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States
The study focuses on several examples of law firms with connections to anti-wind groups, the fossil fuel industry, and the American political system
A report shows how fossil-funded legal groups file bogus lawsuits and spread disinfo about wind - then those lawyers threatened the authors
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