Category: Front Groups
Arizona Free Enterprise Club
Arizona Free Enterprise Club (AFEC) is an anti-solar front group that was involved in electing anti-solar candidates to the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2014. Because the organization is a 501(c)4 nonprofit,...
Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) likes to call itself “the voice of the energy consumer,” but it really is an advocacy front group for some of the country’s largest fossil fuel...
Indiana Energy Association
The Indiana Energy Association (IEA) is membership association primarily made up of the state’s electric and gas utility companies. Mark Maassel, president of IEA, was formerly the president at the...
Matrix LLC
Matrix LLC is a lobbying and opposition research firm that has provided political consulting services to Alabama Power for decades. The Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) is also directly linked...
National Black Chamber of Commerce
The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is a nonprofit organization that receives funding from fossil fuel and utility companies and advocates for specific energy policy positions that support the...
Energy Fairness
Energy Fairness is a front group that advocates for policy positions of fossil fuel and utility companies. Energy Fairness was incorporated as the Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) by...
Prosper
Prosper is an Arizona-based free market advocacy group funded by utility special interests and connected to the Koch political network and is led by former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams (who...
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...