RFF Senior Advisor Bakeyah Nelson refuted criticism of “virtue signaling” by organizations that decline investments from fossil fuel companies, writing in the Houston Chronicle: “The oil and gas industry is certainly aware of its negative public image amid ongoing revelations about its disinformation and climate-denial campaigns throughout the past 40 years. In response, these...
Sarah Brennan, RFF’s Associate Director for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, published an op-ed in The Hill on what the Biden administration needs to do to transition away from fossil fuels. She mentioned two key issues the Funder Collaborative is working on: gas exports and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Bakeyah Nelson, Senior Advisor for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, pens an Op-Ed in Inside Philanthropy urging donors to reject funding carbon capture and storage and instead prioritize funding for effective, reparative solutions that bring about a just energy transition.
Last May, RFF Associate Director Larry Shapiro and Dr. Robert Bullard co-authored an Op-Ed in The New York Times urging lawmakers to include environmental protections for marginalized communities in the debt ceiling deal.
Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D. is founding director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and distinguished professor of urban planning and...
Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas co-founders Larry Shapiro and Sarah Brennan are featured in the Houston Chronicle for their write-up of the cancellation of the proposed PennEast pipeline project that would run between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.