Dirty Corporations Pay Big to Host ALEC Legislators in San Diego
-- By Nick Surgey of The Center for Media and Democracy and Connor Gibson of Greenpeace At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Emails: Oil Lobbyists Drafted His Letters as Oklahoma's AG
Scott Pruitt had a bad habit as Oklahoma's attorney general: he liked to have oil lobbyists ghostwrite his official government letters calling for limits to enforcing federal pollution laws.American...
View ArticleDegrading the American Dream: Inside Koch’s Americans for Prosperity Convention
Last weekend was a wild one for climate action in our nation’s Capitol, between the protest outside a conference run by Koch Industries front group Americans for Prosperity and Sunday’s large street...
View ArticleJeffrey Holmstead: the Coal Industry's Mercury Lobbyist (REPORT)
See the new Jeff Holmstead Mercury InfographicUpdated Dec. 2016American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyGenOn EnergySouthern CompanyJeffrey HolmsteadJohn...
View ArticleObama’s “New” Climate Initiative
Written by Kyle Ash, crossposted from Greenpeace BlogsFreetagging: global warmingclimate changeoilgascoalEPAoffshore drillingEnvironmental Protection Agencyshalehillary...
View ArticleRomney's "War on Coal" TV ads mirror coal industry advertising
Mitt Romney released new TV ads this week about Obama “ruining” the coal industry, conveniently timed with a sudden House Republican push for the so-called “Stop the War on Coal Act.” American...
View ArticleCoal Miners in Romney TV ads were forced to attend rally
Last week, Greenpeace posted a comparison of Romney’s new “War on Coal” TV ads with coal industry advertising. Our analysis shows that Romney’s ads mirror four decades of coal industry advertising....
View ArticleVIDEO: Coal Polluter Lobbyist Confronted at Energy Event
Today 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 coal utility and mining clients...
View ArticleClimate-denying Indiana Regulator helps ALEC Coal Companies Delay EPA Climate...
Click here to see the contents of the ACCCE USB drive from ALEC's 2012 States & Nation Policy summit. You're probably familiar with the old "fox in the hen house" story, but what about when a hen...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination...
Originally posted by Steve Horn at DeSmogBlog.The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing that the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored...
View ArticleWATCH: Rachel Maddow on Climate Denial & Tin Foil Hats
Last week, six Greenpeace activists attended a U.S. House Energy & Power Subcommittee hearing on President Obama's climate change action plan. We stood out--we wore tin foil hats to highlight the...
View ArticleNC to Duke Energy: Have You Dumped ALEC Yet?
Amid a dump of leaked American Legislative Exchange Council documents published by The Guardian last week, North Carolina is asking Duke Energy: Have you finally dumped ALEC?American Electric PowerDuke...
View ArticleMan Who Defrauded EPA calls EPA "Fraudulent" on FOX
If you're John Stossel and you want to host a segment to rail against the US Environmental Protection Agency, who ought you call?It turns out, a man who was convicted and sentenced to six months in...
View ArticleCoal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Disqualified by Federal Judge in Ameren...
Jeff Holmstead, confronted for interfering with climate change solutions, while trying to catch a cab.Jeff Holmstead, perhaps the nation's prime example of a revolving door lobbyist, was dismissed by a...
View ArticleWillie Soon's Climate Denial: Southern Company Caught Polluting Science
The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions -- it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science. Photo: National...
View ArticleDirty Corporations Pay Big to Host ALEC Legislators in San Diego
-- By Nick Surgey of The Center for Media and Democracy and Connor Gibson of Greenpeace At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Emails: Oil Lobbyists Drafted His Letters as Oklahoma's AG
Scott Pruitt had a bad habit as Oklahoma's attorney general: he liked to have oil lobbyists ghostwrite his official government letters calling for limits to enforcing federal pollution laws.American...
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