The linked article mentions the Colcom Foundation funded this research, along with the Carnegie Mellon University Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research.
Can anyone speak to whether the Colcom Foundation raises any concern, as a funding source? In a July 2010 report, "Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism & the Hypocrisy of Hate", the Southern Poverty Law Center writes, "The most important may be the Colcom Foundation, a $400-million-plus entity founded in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May of the far-right Scaife family." https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/d6_legacy_file...
Color me cynical, but prefer due diligence, as opposed to consuming these naively.