Category: Americans for Prosperity

Former governor Sununu defends climate skeptic at controversial Portsmouth Conference
Former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu defended the views of climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg last week during the Portsmouth Conference, a controversial event held in a coastal region of...

Utilities, Koch groups back Sununu’s veto of net metering bill in New Hampshire
Updated on September 11, 2018. Former New Hampshire House speaker Bill O’Brien, now a lobbyist for the Edison Electric Institute, and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will host an...

Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity and Heartland Institute Climate Denier Join Arizona Public Service’s Anti-Clean Energy Campaign
As do politicians and organizations that have received thousands of dollars from the utility

Opponents of the Wind Catcher project have ties to fossil fuel interests, Hawthorn Group
The Wind Catcher project, a plan to build one of the nation’s largest wind farms, is starting to move forward despite attacks from front groups with ties to fossil fuel...
Documents reveal who’s behind RPS and RGGI repeal bills in New Hampshire
February 14, 2017 update: A bill to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will be retained the committee for now, the bill’s sponsor told ICIS Analytics. Republican Jeb Bradley, the New Hampshire...

Koch and Trump Factions Plan to Erase Climate Policy Gains
Forces from the Koch and Trump camps are converging around plans to erase some of the key climate policy gains of the past eight years. Koch group is hopeful Trump will...
Richard Fink: The Koch Brothers’ Big Tobacco Man Behind the Kochtopus Curtain
Richard Fink has long been one of the Koch Brothers’ inner circle, playing the role of both political strategist and close confidante. Some say the Koch Empire wouldn’t have been...
Americans For Prosperity Leads Fossil Fuel Front Group Push for Crude Oil Exports, Anti-Renewables Lobbying
The fossil fuel-funded Americans for Prosperity wrote a coalition to Congress signed by 21 front groups calling for the elimination of the oil export ban.
North Carolina Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The North Carolina Senate is still considering a bill to freeze the state’s renewable energy standard (which currently requires 12.5% clean electricity by 2021) and reduce the size of clean energy...
New Hampshire Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Republican-controlled New Hampshire State Legislature has introduced multiple pieces of legislation to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), gut the state’s renewable energy standard, and allow utility companies...