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Harvard Environmental Law Professor Draws Scrutiny for Ties to Big Oil

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An eminent Harvard environmental law professor’s links to the fossil fuel industry are under scrutiny from colleagues and students after she was awarded a prestigious research grant to investigate corporate climate pledges. Jody Freeman, founding director of Harvard’s environmental and energy law program and former Obama-era White House advisor, is a paid board member of ConocoPhillips—a Fortune 500 American multinational oil and gas company that was ranked the 13th most polluting in the world by a Guardian investigation in 2019.

 

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