The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a nonprofit “partner” organization of the American Energy Alliance (AEA), which is a 501(c)(4) grassroots organization designed to communicate IER’s policies to voters. IER spent over a decade developing a network of anti-renewables activists that it has promoted via its blog MasterResource and worked with to oppose clean energy policies and spread disinformation about clean energy.
IER and AEA are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries. He also worked for former strident anti-environmentalist members of Congress Tom Delay and Rich Pombo. Pyle regularly attends the mega-donor summits organized by the Koch brothers. In 2016, the Charles Koch Foundation contributed a total of $173,380. In 2015, the Charles Koch Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute contributed a combined total of $97,495 to IER.
IER was founded in 1989 from a predecessor nonprofit organization registered by Charles Koch and Robert L. Bradley Jr. The American Energy Alliance was founded...
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a nonprofit “partner” organization of the American Energy Alliance (AEA), which is a 501(c)(4) grassroots organization designed to communicate IER’s policies to voters. IER spent over a decade developing a network of anti-renewables activists that it has promoted via its blog MasterResource and worked with to oppose clean energy policies and spread disinformation about clean energy.
IER and AEA are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries. He also worked for former strident anti-environmentalist members of Congress Tom Delay and Rich Pombo. Pyle regularly attends the mega-donor summits organized by the Koch brothers. In 2016, the Charles Koch Foundation contributed a total of $173,380. In 2015, the Charles Koch Foundation and the Charles Koch Institute contributed a combined total of $97,495 to IER.
IER was founded in 1989 from a predecessor nonprofit organization registered by Charles Koch and Robert L. Bradley Jr. The American Energy Alliance was founded by the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute to fight the BTU tax proposal in 1993, and in recent years has been funded by Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.
One of IER’s directors is Steven Hayward with the American Enterprise Institute and the Pacific Research Institute. In 2007, Hayward was exposed for offering to pay scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change $10,000 for written critiques of the IPCC’s newest findings.
