Tag: Koch Industries
Harry Brown: North Carolina’s anti-wind lawmaker is backed by Koch money
Harry Brown, the state senator who wants to ban new wind farms in eastern North Carolina, has received thousands of dollars in campaign money from Koch Industries and other fossil...
Global Climate Coalition documents reveal the electric utility industry’s role in notorious climate denial campaign
Electric utilities played a prominent role in the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that worked for over a decade to sow doubt about climate change and block efforts to...
Trump’s false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog
A blog post defending President Trump’s false claim that noise from windmills causes cancer has been published on MasterResource.org, a blog run by a think tank backed by the powerful...
How Will Utilities Vote On The Latest Climate Denial Model Resolution At ALEC?
Updated on Dec. 6 to include reference to a letter from the Edison Electric Institute, NRECA, Chevron, Honeywell and UPS expressing concerns about the ALEC resolution. In a test of...
The Koch Brothers ‘Hijacking’ of American Democracy
The Koch Brothers have leveraged their business empire to shape the political system in the mold of their own agendas while simultaneously capturing the Republican Party and along with it,...
Attacks on Clean Power Plan Based on Flawed Reports
This briefing outlines the studies frequently used by special interests, details who has been paid or consulted in the production of these reports, and exposes the front groups involved in...
Texas Public Policy Foundation
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas, and a member of the State Policy Network (SPN). The think tank’s funders from 2010...
ALEC’s Anti-Renewable Energy Agenda – July 2014
The American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) new energy agenda continues to support the interests of the fossil fuel and utility members by attacking clean energy policies at the state level....
Attacks on Clean Energy in Kansas
Kansas Renewable Energy Standard Fight in 2014: Fossil fuel interests worked to repeal the renewable energy standard through the entire legislative session in 2014, and were defeated six times in...