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I Asked a Mining Billionaire About His Environmental Philanthropy. It Didn’t Go Well.

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.



Earlier this year, a billionaire investor and philanthropist named Tom Kaplan auctioned off a small Rembrandt drawing of a lion at Sotheby’s in New York City. It sold for nearly $18 million. A press release prior to the auction noted that Kaplan would donate the proceeds of the sale to an environmental organization that he co-founded, called Pant

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