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Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price
Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms
Exxon, for example, denied the risk of human-caused climate change for decades, noted Jane Patton, an LSU alumna and the US fossil economy campaign manager for the Center for International Environmental Law. Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRecords show that Shell helped to tailor what LSU students would learn in the six courses offered under the institute’s carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) concentration that debuted a couple years ago. The LSU alumnus Lee Stockwell, Shell’s general manager of CCUS, sat on the search committee for the Energy Institute executive director, served on the petroleum engineering advisory board, and was very involved in shaping the carbon capture curriculum.
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