US phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty.

For decades, fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious colleges, helping to amplify the work of scientists who promoted the idea that we could stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas and coal.

Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13% of what school districts requested.