Greenpeace USA

Washington DC - Documents obtained by Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center through public records requests shed new light on the influence of fossil fuel interests on the research of Dr. Willie Soon, which has been prominently promoted by climate denier politicians like Senator Inhofe. Dr. Soon, an aerospace engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has received over $1 million from fossil fuel interests including ExxonMobil, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the American Petroleum Institute, as well as Southern Company, a major coal burning utility, and anonymous donations through DonorsTrust.