Politics
Fossil Fuels’ Fishy New Friends
How public affairs firms engineered a “grass-roots” group defending oil and coal investments.
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James Short, a retired deputy fire chief, is the founder of an organization called Protect Our Pensions. At least that’s what it says on the group’s website.
But ask Short about his role at Protect Our Pensions, formed last year to oppose efforts to push endowments, foundations and pension funds to divest their holdings in fossil-fuel companies, and he has a different take.