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

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 […] ...