Higher Education Policy Researcher

Rachelle Peterson

1 article 2016

Rachelle Peterson is a policy researcher and writer who has focused on higher education and the intersection of academia and politics. She contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2016, writing about the campaign against ExxonMobil. She has been associated with the National Association of Scholars, where she has examined issues including campus fossil fuel divestment movements.

Why They Hate Exxon

March 4, 2016 · Oil, Features, ExxonMobil

In January the Los Angeles Times reported that California attorney general Kamala Harris is investigating ExxonMobil for securities fraud and violation of environmental law. Harris hasn’t confirmed this, but leaks from her office say they are building a case on the premise that Exxon (back in the…