Dirty Front Groups’ Secret Piggybank: Donors Trust & Donors Capital Fund
For those familiar with the effort of ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers to bankroll a network of organizations denying basic climate science, a new article in the Guardian offers some revelatory...
View ArticleKoch Brother Fronts Flood into Kansas to Attack Wind Industry – REPORT
Correction: this post listed KS Sen. Julia Lynn as a supporter of the RPS freeze–she is not and her name was removed below. A recent flood of Koch-supported think tanks, junk scientists and astroturf...
View ArticleDuke Energy & Koch Brothers aim to kill clean energy in North Carolina
As anticipated, former Duke Energy engineer and North Carolina Representative Mike Hager has introduced a version of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Electricity Freedom Act” into the...
View ArticleBREAKING: North Carolina legislators reject ALEC’s fossil fuel funded attack...
Today, those employed by North Carolina’s clean energy industries and anyone concerned about global climate change can celebrate the apparent downfall of an attack on renewable energy incentives. NC...
View ArticleNC Senators force ALEC bill through committee without even counting votes
The ALEC repeal of NC’s renewable energy law was written by fossil fuel funded climate change deniers at the Heartland Institute. Bitter from a lack of support for his attacks on clean energy...
View ArticleDirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
Written by Brendan Fisher, crossposted from the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch. At least 77 bills to oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and the controversial Keystone XL...
View ArticleExposed: ALEC’s new anti-environmental agenda in Chicago this week
New internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal new methods that fossil fuel companies, agrochemical interests and corporate lobbying groups will influence certain...
View ArticleDear Greenpeace: 5 Lies from the Heartland Institute
From left: Heartland Institute president Joseph Bast, lawyer James Taylor and contracted pseudo-scientist Craig Idso. Crossposted from PolluterWatch.org As we’ve told the Heartland Institute directly...
View ArticleYears of Living Dangerously: Climate Change Deniers and Kansas Wind Energy
Next Monday, SHOWTIME’s Years of Living Dangerously series will air an episode focused in part on wind energy in Kansas. Teaser clips posted by SHOWTIME review how wind energy has been a lifeline for...
View ArticleHeartland Institute Climate Change Denier James Taylor PWND on TV
(Not an internet nerd liek the author? Check out what “pwn” means…) SHOWTIME’s Years of Living Dangerously series just aired a segment featuring James Taylor, a lawyer who has been paid to confuse the...
View ArticleCoal and Oil Polluters Dominate ALEC Conference
Written with Nick Surgey of The Center for Media and Democracy. Image courtesy of CMD’s PR Watch. Who’s pulling the strings at the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council‘s (ALEC) conference in...
View ArticleALEC Denies that ALEC Denies Climate Change
Here’s a headline you might expect to see on Reddit’s “Not The Onion” page: Washington Post: This conservative group is tired of being accused of climate denial — and is fighting back The “conservative...
View ArticleClimate Change Deniers Hate Me. Here’s Why.
“Sold out…?! No way. Cannot be true.” I swore to myself. In all of its awkward history, The Heartland Institute’s conferences for climate change deniers have never sold out. This year it did, and I...
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