Renewable Revolution

New Report Exposes Dark Money Funneling to Climate Change Denial Groups


SNIPPET 1:

The network of corporate-funded right wing think tanks in America is massive. The money that flows to these organizations is even more massive than the networks themselves, and it flows in almost total secrecy thanks to Donors Trust and ]Donors Capital Fund.

According to the report, a staggering sum of $125 million has been given to these organizations that deny climate change over the last three years. Photo credit: Shutterstock




SNIPPET 2:

A few of the groups listed in the report include:

•The Federalist Society, a networking group for conservative lawyers and justices which calls on states to reject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate carbon pollution, received $8.7 million over the past three years.

•The State Policy Network, a network of ultra-conservative think tanks, received a total of $8.2 million over the last three years.

•Think tanks allied with the State Policy Network have worked with the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a pro-business lobby, which has sought legislation to penalize homeowners who install solar panels.

•The Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank whose climate expert opposes cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, took in $7.9 million over three years.

•The Heartland Institute, which sent a delegation to Rome in April to try to upstage meetings between the Pope and the UN Chief Ban Ki Moon on climate change, received $3.8 million.

•The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received $4.3 million over three years, claims on its website that climate change is its biggest program.

•The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, whose communications director is Marc Morano, took $3.7 million from donors in 2012—its most ever. A year later, however, the organization received $325,000.

Full article:

http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/22/dark-money-climate-denial/