CleanTechnica readers, who are all above average, may find it curious that the attorney general of every red state has decided to join this lawsuit. How does such cooperation happen? MAGA lunatic are always looking for conspiracy theories and here is one happening right out in plain sight. Is anyone curious how something like that […]
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A national insurance company wrote a bill to obstruct asbestos lawsuits in Florida
These bills appear to have begun multiplying in state Capitols around the country right around the time that the American Legislative Exchange Council — the corporate-funded “bill mill” that produces model legislation for state legislatures to copy and tailor — published an “Asbestos Litigation Over-Naming Reform Act.” That’s according to the Center for Media and […]
Powerful conservative funds hand out millions to pro-Trump far-right groups
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) consulted on and provided research for this report from Peter Stone. For a more detailed analysis of Bradley’s funding see CMD’s “Bradley Funneled $86 Million to Right-Wing Litigation, Policy, Media, Youth Groups, and Higher Education in 2022” piece from December 2023.
Leonard Leo’s Network Is RAGA’s Top Funder Once Again
A new disclosure first published today by the Center for Media and Democracy revealed a $1 million donation from Leonard Leo’s Concord Fund to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA).
Republican AGs Are Teaming Up With The Corporations Poisoning Their States To Gut The Clean Air Act. Why?
Follow the paper trail and you’ll find that it’s likely because AFPM (and its member organizations) are reliable donors for AGs and for their governing organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). As tracked by the Center for Media and Democracy, AFPM donated $246,720 from 2014-2016, $60,625 in 2017, $220,725 from 2019-2020, $40,000 in 2021 and another $75,150 in 2023. […]
TPPF’s Long Love Affair with Ken Paxton
It’s hard—or impossible—to know these days who funds TPPF as the organization does not disclose its donors; the most-recent publicly available lists of its financial backers are now more than a decade old. That, of course, makes the process of holding public officials accountable for their relationships to the organization (and the organization’s own motivations) […]
Do New Laws Seek To Regulate Charitable Bail, Or End It?
But the American Legislative Exchange Council, known for pushing conservative model legislation, is involved in these efforts to draft and enact model legislation, and the American Bail Coalition is one of ALEC’s members and has a representative on ALEC’s Criminal Justice Task Force, according to the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog organization.
When social issues stall Missouri lawmakers, statewide officials make their own rules
“Secretary of State Ashcroft is acting like he is the legislative branch of the government,” Michael Berg, political director of the Missouri chapter of the Sierra Club, told the Center for Media and Democracy. “He enacted rules that were rejected by the legislature.”
Anderson Moms for Liberty say school district hid books from parents
As of July 2022, Moms for Liberty had about 95,000 members and more than 200 chapters in 40-plus states, according to Sourcewatch.com, an initiative from the Center for Media and Democracy that tracks corporate front groups. While initially it appeared as a grassroots organization, Moms for Liberty is more of an astroturf operation — national groups that expand rapidly […]
Mining for Power: Connection Between Bitcoin Miners, Corporate Interest Groups, and Climate Deniers
Multiple citations to the Center for Media and Democracy’s work included throughout this publication.