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Heirs of oil baron John Rockefeller pledge $30 million to help protesters BLOCK new oil


Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case launched their fund Thursday
They are great-great-grandchildren of John D. Rockefeller, who died in 1937 
John D. Rockefeller opened his first oil refinery in Cleveland in 1863
Within decades Standard Oil controlled 90% of U.S. petroleum production
The Supreme Court split up Standard Oil in 1911 and the family control ended
Yet when John D. Rockefeller died he was the richest man in the world
Since 2003 his heirs have been challenging Standard Oil s offshoots, like Exxon
Some of the 270-odd descendants disagree with taking on fossil fuels  ....

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Rockefeller heirs launch campaign to curb oil and gas growth


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Two great-great-grandchildren of Standard Oil Co. founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. are pouring millions of dollars into an effort aimed at supporting people on the front lines fighting new oil and gas development.
Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case have created the “Equation Campaign” and pledged a combined $30 million of their personal wealth to the effort. Another $5 million was pledged by other sources so far, with an ultimate goal of raising $100 million.
The name of the effort comes from the idea that reducing demand for fossil fuels is only half of the “equation” when it comes to addressing global warming; the other side of the equation is cutting off the supply. ....

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Heirs to Rockefeller fortune launch effort to slow oil and gas growth


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Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, two heirs to the Rockefeller family’s oil fortune, have pledged a total of $30 million in support of an effort that aims to combat new fossil fuel development.
The 10-year funding initiative, the Equation Campaign, derived its name from what Lambert and Case called the “missing piece of the equation” in addition to supporting the transition to renewable energy. The other half, they wrote, involves actively working against natural gas and oil extraction on the ground by supporting local activist movements.
“This includes young people fighting for their future, indigenous people defending their land and water, farmers protecting their crop, black and brown communities living in the shadow of the industry’s operations, and poor people who are not responsible for global warming but who bear the brunt of its effects,” the campaign said in a statement on its website. “Yet the truth is that in the ....

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