Are oil companies funding attacks on climate change science in North Carolina?
An investigation of tax records by the Institute for Southern Studies shows that the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh received at least $126,500 from groups with ties to the fossil-fuel industry between 2002 and 2005.
That includes contributions from the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, The Cato Institute, The Reason Foundation, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Center for Energy and Economic Development and the DCI Group.
The Locke Foundation is also working with the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank that's received money from ExxonMobil.
In recent months, the Locke Foundation has criticized the work of the Center for Climate Strategies, a nonprofit working with North Carolina and other states to reduce greenhouse gases.
