Category: Front Groups
Energy & Environment Legal Institute
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a coal funded non-profit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)] that engages in litigation and policy research to “hold...
Citizens’ Alliance For Responsible Energy
The Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) is a fossil fuel-funded advocacy group based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. CARE is funded by more than 250 members, including New Mexico oil and gas producers. The group opposes...
American Encore
American Encore is a Koch-funded money laundering organization run by Sean Noble that has worked to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, and has funded attacks on solar energy in Arizona....
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...