Tue Aug 16, 2022 – 6:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A nonprofit headed by Hollywood powerhouse Leonardo DiCaprio funneled grants through “dark money” group Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) to bankroll lawsuits against oil companies over climate change, according to a new report.
The Titanic and Inception star’s Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) announced in October 2017 that it was awarding $20 million in grants to over 100 environmental groups “for wildlife and habitat conservation, to aide in the defense of indigenous rights, and to support innovative grass roots efforts aimed at combating climate change and solving complex environmental issues.”
Included in the since-deleted announcement was an unspecified amount to RLF “to support precedent-setting legal actions to hold major corporations in the fossil fuel industry liable.”
Fox News reported that it has reviewed an email correspondence from months before that announcement, obtained by watchdog group Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO), between philanthropist Dan Emmett and University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) climate professor Ann Carlson (now a member of the Biden administration) detailing their work with law firm Sher Edling to raise money to lodge climate nuisance suits against oil companies all over the United States, on behalf of state
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