30 the standards, including working to stop efforts It has lobbied and litigated against the reauthorization, implementation and enforcement of new fuel efficiency standards for decades, up to and including under the Trump Administration. In addition to opposing stronger standards to make gas-powered engines cleaner and more fuel efficient, the oil industry has continued its efforts to slow the adoption of electric vehicles and other clean transport technologies. In 1994, for example, a previously unheard of group, Californians Against Utility Company Abuse, launched a major, well-funded campaign seeking to block state investments in electric vehicle charging stations. After the group sent letters to more than 200,000 electricity customers in California, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times exposed CAUCA as a front group funded and operated by the Western States Petroleum Association. 25 In 2006, the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car investigated the efforts of car makers, oil companies and others to limit the development and marketing electric vehicle technologies. The filmmakers documented that, after small battery maker Ovonics developed a new and promising new technology for large Nickel Metal Hydride batteries for use in vehicles, first General Motors then Chevron bought control of the patent. The filmmakers pointed out that Chevron’s arrangement gave the oil company exclusive control of the licensing and use of the NiMH battery patent, and alleged that Chevron was using patent entanglement to prevent the further development or use of the technology. As of this writing, Chevron continues to control the patent. (Annex G). In 1972, three years after the API received the final and Supplemental Reports from Robbins and Robinson of SRI addressing in detail the state of climate science and the risk of ignoring global risks from carbon dioxide, the National Petroleum Council submitted a two volume, book-length report to the Department of Interior on the petroleum industry’s environmental conservation efforts. High-level executives from across the oil and gas industry were identified as authors and editors of the 1972 report and of its component chapters, including an extensive chapter on “Air Pollution.” The relevant committees included representatives from all of the following companies: Gulf Oil Corp. (Chevron); Humble Oil (ExxonMobil; Mobil Oil Corp. (ExxonMobil); Phillips Petroleum (ConocoPhillips); Shell Oil; Standard Oil of Indiana (BP); and Texaco (Chevron) In that Air Pollution chapter, the NPC draws extensively on the Robbins and Robinson report, and refers to the researchers themselves as eminent scientists. Despite this, however, and notwithstanding the extensive and 25 Michael Parrish, Trying to Pull the Plug : Big Oil Companies Sponsor Efforts to Curtail Electric, Natural Gas Cars, Los Angeles Times (August 14, 1994), Available at http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-14/business/fi-46003_1_natural-gas-cars.