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Biggest US Coal Company Funded Dozens of Groups Questioning Climate Change

Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson The Guardian
Peabody, the world’s biggest private sector publicly traded coal company, was long known as an outlier even among fossil fuel companies for its public rejection of climate science and action. But its funding of climate denial groups was only exposed in disclosures after the coal titan was forced to seek bankruptcy protection in April, under competition from cheap natural gas.
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