#Climate-Denial
Events indexed under #Climate-Denial — 37 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | Stand Up for Science Holds Nationwide 'Rally to Take Back Science' at 46+ Locations Stand Up for Science · U.S. National Institutes of Health · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis Tulsi Gabbard · DNI · Jake Sullivan | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Financial Stability Oversight Council | reported | |
| 2025-02-10 | EPA Administrator Zeldin Plans 65% Workforce Cut While Terminating $20 Billion Climate Grants Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · JBS · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-08 | Michael Mann Wins Defamation Lawsuit After 12-Year Battle Against Climate Deniers Michael Mann · Rand Simberg · Mark Steyn · Competitive Enterprise Institute · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-10 | New York Loses ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Lawsuit in Major Accountability Failure Barry Ostrager · Letitia James · ExxonMobil · New York Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-19 | EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule Replacing Clean Power Plan With Weaker Standards Andrew Wheeler · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · Coal Industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-07 | Scott Pruitt Dismantles EPA While Taking Industry Money Scott Pruitt · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-29 | Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations Eric Schneiderman · Maura Healey · Claude Walker · ExxonMobil · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches InsideClimate News · ExxonMobil · Los Angeles Times · Columbia University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-22 | Climate Scientist Michael Mann Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Climate Denial Writers Michael Mann · Rand Simberg · Mark Steyn · Competitive Enterprise Institute · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber Heartland Institute · Ted Kaczynski · James Sensenbrenner · State Farm · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit Donors Trust · Donors Capital Fund · Koch brothers · Knowledge and Progress Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Clint Woods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending DonorsTrust · Donors Capital Fund · Whitney Lynn Ball · Kimberly Dennis · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · Michael Mann · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign Competitive Enterprise Institute · Myron Ebell · ExxonMobil · Curt Davis | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Marshall Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol George W. Bush · Christine Todd Whitman · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools American Legislative Exchange Council · Sandy Liddy Bourne · Heartland Institute · Koch Industries · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1998-04-03 | American Petroleum Institute "Victory" Memo Outlines Climate Disinformation Strategy American Petroleum Institute · Randy Randol · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-04-01 | American Petroleum Institute Drafts Secret Climate Denial Strategy Document American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · Chevron · Southern Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network Koch Industries · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Family Foundations · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Environment Task Force Passes 100+ Anti-Regulation Bills Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1993-01-01 | Philip Morris Creates TASSC Front Group, Exporting Tobacco Doubt Tactics to Climate Denial Philip Morris · The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition · Frederick Seitz · Fred Singer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1991-01-01 | George C. Marshall Institute Becomes Central Node in Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial George C. Marshall Institute · Frederick Seitz · Fred Singer · Robert Jastrow · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign ExxonMobil · Shell · Chevron · Ford Motor Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-01 | Wise Use Movement Founded as Industry-Funded Anti-Environmental Grassroots Campaign Ron Arnold · Alan Gottlieb · Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise · American Petroleum Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda Cato Institute · Charles Koch · Ed Crane · Murray Rothbard · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming James Black · Roger Cohen · ExxonMobil · Exxon Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Organizational Profile: Transforming Industry Lobby into 'Scholarly' Think Tank American Enterprise Institute · Irving Kristol · Jeane Kirkpatrick · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed |