An oil derrick. Photo by Zbynek Burival on Unsplash.
"For more than a decade, as many oil and gas workers near retirement age, the industry has poured millions of dollars into Texas K-12 education to create programs designed to train students on the basics of the industry," according to The Hechinger Report (May 18, 2016). "Critics worry about the oil and gas industry's influence over students, though, as evidence mounts of its environmental harms."
"'The oil and gas industry definitely wants voters and policymakers in the next generation to be sympathetic to the concerns of the fossil fuel industry,' said Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that advocates for accurate and effective science instruction. 'The industry has a long history of making a push into public schools' going back to as early as the 1940s."
