this is not the whole story -- a Swiss do-gooder in the San Francisco Bay Area had a "Carbon Footprint" project running for quite a while (still?) .. he was nerdy and sincere. His close staff certainly were sincere. If there was someone taking Oil money, they didn't show it.
Plenty of well meaning people want to do better personally and don’t realize that they’re shifting the discussion to a damaging frame. It happens all over politics!