Checks and Balances Project Welcomes New Senior Fellow Joel Francis

2015-04-10

I am excited for this opportunity to continue my earlier work advocating for a healthier climate future. Much has changed since my last foray when I challenged the Koch Brothers to debate the merits of California’s landmark AB 32, the law aimed at reducing California’s carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. One thing remains… Read more »

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Fossil Fuel Front Groups’ Flawed Poll Ignores Century of Fossil Fuel Welfare

2014-09-10

This week the American Energy Alliance and its President Thomas J. Pyle released a slanted poll meant to deliberately deceive the public by forgetting about 150 years of subsidies paid to the oil, gas, and coal industries. Its questions were carefully written to manufacture public opposition to tax credits that would spur the growth of… Read more »

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Koch Bros, Getting Richer While the World Burns

2013-07-18

Authored by David Halperin of Republic Report & designed by Wake Coulter. 

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The Maine Players Attacking Renewable Energy: The Koch Brothers

2013-05-3

In a new report, the Maine Conservation Alliance asks: are we debating renewable energy, or the Koch brothers’ profits?” Maine’s renewable energy standards have been the prime target of the Koch Machine – front groups, think tanks, and legislators with financial ties to Koch Industries and its two billionaire owners: the Koch brothers. The Renewable… Read more »

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Tobacco, Tea Party, and Dirty Energy: Lobbyist C. Boyden Gray

2013-03-25

As someone with deep ties to right-wing political circles, and strong financial ties to the tobacco industry, C. Boyden Gray fits the bill as the ideal lobbyist for the dirty energy industry. Dirty energy in many ways is the successor to the tobacco industry, given how it uses front groups and pundits to avoid public… Read more »

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Donors Trust: The Secret Group Funding Attacks on Clean Energy & Climate Science

2013-02-15

New research shows almost $120 million flowed from two secretive groups, called “Donors Trust” and “Donors Capital” to 102 groups denying climate science and attacking clean energy. The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg reports that “the funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of think tanks and activist groups working to a single purpose:… Read more »

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