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A law firm representing anti\u2013wind energy groups is demanding that Brown University researchers retract findings linking those groups to the fossil fuel industry, The New York Times<\/em> reported Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move comes weeks after Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration. The government restored $510\u00a0million in frozen federal research grants after the university agreed to certain demands, including adopting the Trump administration\u2019s definitions of male and female and turning over admissions data.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Trump administration has halted or canceled thousands of other research grants across the country, including many focused on climate change. <\/p>\n Marzulla Law LLC characterized the research published by Brown\u2019s Climate and Development Lab as \u201cfalse and injurious\u201d in an Aug.\u00a011 letter to Brown\u2019s general counsel. It threatened to file complaints with Brown\u2019s public and private funders, including the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n A university spokesperson did not comment specifically on the law firm\u2019s demands but told the Times<\/em> that it\u2019s committed to maintaining academic freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brown researchers who authored a case study about Marzulla Law have written that the firm has \u201ca history of advancing anti-environmental lawsuits and significant ties with the fossil fuel industry.\u201d Researchers have also published findings accusing one of the firm\u2019s clients\u2014the nonprofit Green Oceans, which is trying to shut down the construction of a nearly complete $4\u00a0billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island\u2014of being part of \u201ca fossil-fuel-funded disinformation network.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday, the Trump administration, which opposes the wind energy industry, halted the wind farm project without citing specific reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A law firm representing anti\u2013wind energy groups is demanding that Brown University researchers retract findings linking those groups to the fossil fuel industry, The New York Times reported Monday.\u00a0 The move comes weeks after Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration. The government restored $510\u00a0million in frozen federal research grants after the university agreed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1798,186,1466,175,5265,899],"class_list":{"0":"post-17993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-brown","9":"tag-climate","10":"tag-firm","11":"tag-law","12":"tag-researchers","13":"tag-threatens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}