Centrica has donated to US climate change-denying thinktank

Company owned by Centrica gave $20,000 to TPPF, praised by new US energy secretary for opposing 'hysteria of global warming'

British Gas's parent company, Centrica, has given tens of thousands of dollars to a US thinktank that denies climate change and is backed by Donald Trump's energy secretary.

Direct Energy, a US energy company wholly owned by Centrica, donated $20,000 to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) in 2010, according to tax filings.