The British Medical Journal report said that in 2000 British Petroleum and Ford Motor Company donated $20 million to Princeton to launch the first major program at an American university to tackle climate change. In 2020, according to the BMJ investigation, Princeton extended a funding partnership with ExxonMobil.
That letter argued that “accepting funding from the fossil fuel industry poses an inherent conflict of interest” and threatens researchers’ academic integrity.” The students said in the letter that Stanford has accepted tens of millions of dollars from fossil fuel companies since 2011 to fund university research.
If the progressives can fund green research, then the gasoline companies should be able to support the development of technologies related to limiting emissions.