VIDEO: Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Confronted on Stage for Polluter Shilling
Crossposted from PolluterWatch Yesterday at a well-attended energy forum hosted by Politico, I shed some light on the role of coal lobbyist Jeffrey Holmstead in blocking pollution reductions for his...
View ArticleALEC Exposed: Indiana Regulator Advises Coal Companies on Delaying EPA...
You're probably familiar with the old "fox in the hen house" story, but what about when a hen joins the fox den?This is the case with the recent American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in...
View ArticleALEC & Koch front groups swarm Kansas legislators to kill wind incentives
Crossposted from Greenpeace USA.Correction: this post listed KS Sen. Julia Lynn as a supporter of the RPS freeze--she is not and her name was removed from SB 82 co-sponsors below.A recent flood of...
View ArticleHow to confront climate deniers! Students challenge Big Oil's favorite...
Crossposted from PolluterWatchRarely do we meet those who have made careers selling us lies. Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or...
View ArticleKoch Media Manipulation continues amid breaking New Yorker investigation
Amid concerns that Koch Industries could buy several major U.S. newspapers from Tribune Company, industrial billionaire David Koch was forced to step down as trustee of WNET, New York City's largest...
View ArticleYes Men to US Chamber: Don't Stop Suing Us!
Crossposted from Greenpeace's The Witness.Shenanigans at the front door of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday reveal that the Chamber has dropped its lawsuit against the Yes Men, the activist duo...
View ArticleKoch throws ALEC under the bus to dismiss George Zimmerman funding rumor
Crossposted from PolluterWatch.Amid public outrage over the acquittal of George Zimmerman after the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, Koch Industries wants to clarify something: they...
View ArticleNEW REPORT on CLIMATE DENIAL HISTORY: Coal & Oil-funded attacks on Science
Written by Cindy Baxter, crossposted from Greenpeace: Dealing in Doubt.Who likes being lied to by people paid by the oil industry who pose as “experts” on climate change?Did you know it’s been going on...
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VIDEO: Climate Deniers confronted, caught lying amid New IPCC Science
Crossposted from PolluterWatch.Yesterday, the Heritage Foundation hosted The Heartland Institute's CEO Joseph Bast, along with two of Heartland's contracted climate denial scientists (Willie Soon and...
View ArticleBoston Globe Exposes Climate Denier Willie Soon (VIDEOS)
Here's one climate change denier who really doesn't want you to think twice about his funding from Koch, coal and oil: Dr. Willie Soon, freshly profiled in today's Boston Globe. In this video, we asked...
View ArticleShill Network CEO Lies Called Out by New Yorker
Perhaps you saw news over the week regarding the new "Stink Tanks" reports from ProgressNow and the Center for Media and Democracy. In short, the national and state-by-state Stink Tanks reports amass...
View ArticleVIDEO: ALEC's Valentine Service for Duke Energy
Crossposted from Greenpeace's blog, The EnvironmentaLIST.Over the last four years, Greenpeace has made a Valentine's Day tradition of spoofing the influence peddling of corporate lobbyists and captured...
View ArticleCharles Koch Money and Polluted Science in Florida State University Economics
Crossposted from Greenpeace's blog, the EnvironmentaLIST.Students at Florida State University are telling Charles Koch to stop compromising academic integrity with multimillion dollar grants that come...
View ArticleGreenpeace Confirms: Six Utilities Quietly Dumped ALEC
Crossposted from Greenpeace USA's The EnvironmentaLIST: Greenpeace Confirms Six Utilities Quietly Dumped ALEC.After writing letters to nine utility companies that have supported the anti-science...
View ArticleHow Koch used NJ Gov. Chris Christie to Undermine Regional Climate Policy
The major SHOWTIME series Years of Living Dangerously has an inside look at how the billionaire Koch brothers used their advocacy group Americans for Prosperity to force New Jersey out of a regional...
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Cartoons & Climate Change! Great New Book by PhD "Stand Up Economist"
I just read the Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, which I'm about to highly recommend to you and anyone you have ever known. I'll even tease you with pretty previews of the book's pages, below....
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Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead: Stuck in the Elevator with Greenpeace
If you're a coal lobbyist like Jeff Holmstead, getting stuck in an elevator with Greenpeace activists is an inconvenient occupational hazard. It's worse if you can't catch a cab during an uncomfortable...
View ArticleALEC has "No Comment" on Free Markets Contradiction
Crossposted from Greenpeace's blog, the EnvironmentaLIST.The American Legislative Exchange Council doesn't like clean energy. And ALEC doesn't care about free markets.Like most of its operations, ALEC...
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Dominion Needs to Dump ALEC - Protest Coverage
Yesterday, a few dozen clean energy advocates visited the Arlington, Virginia office of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to protest its dirtywork for polluting companies like Dominion...
View ArticleWatch as Republican Candidates Continue Denying Climate Change in Year 2014
Crossposted from Greenpeace’s blog, the EnvironmentaLIST: VIDEO: Quotes from Climate Denial CandidatesThis video is a mixture of painfully-awkward, hilarious, and infuriating at the reality of the...
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Nationwide Protests to #UnKoch Campuses Yesterday - PHOTOS
As students in Michigan, Kansas and Virginia attempt to pin down evasive administrators to review grant contracts cut between billionaire Charles Koch and their universities, one campus is working to...
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VIDEO: Climate denier Willie Soon runs from Questions on Exxon Funding
Extra Extra! Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel...
View ArticleGeorge Mason University President to Charles Koch: "I am nothing but...
If you tuned into yesterday's Kojo Nnamdi show on NPR affiliate station WAMU in Washington DC, you may have caught about eight awkward minutes as the president of George Mason University was questioned...
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Resist the Exelon-Pepco Monopoly! No Consumer Bailouts for Fortune 500 Mistakes
DC residents: click here to call Mayor Muriel Bowser and tell her to prioritize her constituents over the expansion of Exelon's monopoly. Exelon all-but-promises it will raise your electricity bills if...
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Jeb Bush Shifts on Climate after Pope Francis' Encyclical, Jindal and...
UPDATE: pardon the cut/paste YouTube URLs. Daily Kos consistently refuses to allow me to embed videos, much to my chagrin. You can find my original post in full functionality here:...
View ArticleGET RICH or LIE TRYIN' - Climate Hustle propaganda movie
If you've ever turned on the TV and seen a charismatic, boyish, conservative looking man yelling at scientists in an animated fashion, there's a good chance it was Marc Morano.Marc's new movie, Climate...
View ArticleJane Mayer's "Dark Money" Exposes Charles Koch's Campus Lobbying Scheme
This article is the full version of a two-part investigation I published on Huffington Post last week, reacting to Jane Mayer's new book, "Dark Money."New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s new book "Dark...
View ArticleThe “Invisible Hand of Charles Koch” Is Why This George Mason University...
EDIT, May 31, 2016: A 2009 contract between West Virginia University and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation required WVU to share credentials of final applicants for Koch-funded professorships...
View ArticleKoch Fronts Defend ExxonMobil's Denial of Climate Change Science in Full-Page...
The Kochs have spent over $88 million in *traceable* funding to groups attacking climate change science, policy and regulation. Of that total, $21 million went to groups that recently bought a full...
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