YouTube Is Promoting Koch’s Climate Change Denial Network
A study by Avaaz shows that the company is recommending climate disinformation to users, and much of it comes from groups funded by Charles Koch and his allies.
Environment
Right-Wing Business Billionaires Launch Attack on Bernie Sanders
Yesterday, the billionaire-funded Club for Growth Action released an ad criticizing Sanders’s health care and climate change policies.
Koch Spends More in 2019 to Stop Action on Climate
Koch Industries spent $11 million in 2019 lobbying Congress to block climate action, renewable energy subsidies, automobile fuel efficiency standards, and donor disclosure.
Australia, your country is burning - dangerous climate change is here with you now
I am a climate scientist on holiday in the Blue Mountains, watching climate change in action
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
The preferred piggy bank for Koch network megadonors bankrolled key players in the Right’s growing state infrastructure, legal advocacy, and media operations, in addition to funding climate denial, union busting, and gerrymandering.
Dispatches from COP 25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid
Scientist’s concerns over “abrupt climate system change” lead him to reluctant support for controversial Solar Radiation Management strategies and show urgent need for climate restoration.
As GOP State Attorneys General Fight Environmental Regulations, Fossil Fuel Companies Bankroll Their Campaigns
As Republican Attorneys General faced 2018 re-election bids and continued their legal challenges to Obama-era environmental regulations, fossil fuel companies poured millions of dollars into the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), a political nonprofit that spends money to elect GOP AGs. That trend has continued into this year. From 2017 through mid-2019, oil, gas, and coal companies, trade associations, fossil fuel utilities, and industry executives donated over $6.7 million to RAGA, a CMD investigation has found.
ALEC Influence in Ohio Greases Skids for Anti-Protest Bill
The legislation, SB 33, is modeled after an ALEC proposal, and its corporate backers are big contributors to the Republican party and legislators in Ohio.
Dispatches from the People's Summit in Santiago, Chile
Indigenous women aim to unite Latin America around equality for women and agroecology.
Wisconsin Governor Evers Signs ALEC-Inspired Bill to Criminalize Protest
In a press release, the Governor echoed oil and gas industry talking points, which the Center for Media and Democracy revealed earlier, saying, "Today, I signed Assembly Bill 426, which aims to ensure each energy provider is treated the same under the law while still protecting the right to exercise free speech and the right to assembly."
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