Category: Front Groups
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a tax-exempt organization founded in 1985 by David Rothbard and Craig Rucker to pursue a free-market approach to environmental issues. CFACT describes their mission as...
Employment Policies Institute
The Employment Policies Institute is one of several front groups created by Berman and Company, a Washington, DC public affairs firm owned by Richard Berman, who lobbies for the restaurant, hotel, alcoholic beverage, tobacco and fossil fuel...
Berman and Company
Berman and Company, Washington, DC public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman, represents the tobacco industry as well as hotels, beer distributors, restaurant chains, and fossil fuel companies. On October 30, 2014, the New...
Beacon Hill Institute
The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) is a right-wing think tank that is housed at Suffolk University in Boston, MA until the end of 2016. It was started as the research...
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a national astroturf group founded and funded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, the owners of Koch Industries. AFP spends millions on TV ads...
American Legislative Exchange Council
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connects lawmakers with corporate lobbyists to produce model bills that are then introduced in legislatures across the country. Model bills can be brought to...
Americans for Tax Reform
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is an anti-tax lobbying group founded by Grover Norquist. ATR is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and is best known for its...
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association is a front group funded by the Koch Brothers that works to recruit senior citizens to support the organization’s supposed “free market” ideology. 60 Plus has supported the...
American Legislative Exchange CouncilEdison Electric InstituteNational Black Chamber of CommerceSolar
Edison Electric Institute’s Anti-Solar, PR Spending Revealed
Over the past couple of decades, special interests from the coal, oil, utilities, and other energy industries have routinely used lobbying, public relations, and other means to impact decisions that...
House Subcommittee on Energy and Power Features Fossil Fuel Front Groups
House subcommittee hearing features testimony from people who have received funding from fossil fuel interests and primarily advocate for the continued use of fossil fuels over renewable energy.