Justin Nobel is writing a book on the environmental threats of oil and gas, which will be published by Simon & Schuster. There is only one problem: S&S was sold to to KKR, a private equity firm with significant investments in oil and gas.
I reached out to a number of sources in the months following the KKR announcement to get their take on what I had done. Many environmental activists believed I had made the right decision. Jesse Lombardi, the former bank robber, wondered if KKR had purchased Simon & Schuster simply to kill my book. It was flattering that he would think so.