…Greenpeace project Exxon Secrets, which tracks spending by ExxonMobil, has documented over $30 million in funding to U.S. climate denial groups from 1998-2014. ExxonMobil continues to fund climate denial through…
Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, Shell out to Rescue Ron Johnson
…elbows with big money donors who mused about whether Koch funding was a viable alternative to the Republican Party itself. He was described as the Kochs’ “model legislator,” reports Politico’s…
Flint Is a Casualty in the Right Wing’s War on Local Democracy
…really happening in the world’s leading republic? Funding the War on Local Democracy Governor Snyder’s controversial emergency manager law is a cornerstone of the Right Wing’s war on labor and…
Lawyer Tormenting Scientists Revealed Working For Coal Company
…the industry that they are working to protect. Coal Industry Funding of Climate Denial CMD recently revealed that another coal company filing for bankruptcy, Arch Coal, has provided funding to…
CMD Calls on ALEC to Disclose Information during Sunshine Week
…special interests vote as equals with state legislators. ALEC has claimed that more than 1,000 of its bills are introduced each year. In one mailing to its corporate funders, and…
Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy
…charging a fee for, or otherwise regulating plastic bags is part of a national strategy by corporate interests and groups they fund, like ALEC to override progressive policy gains at…
Cashing in on Kids: 172 ALEC Education Bills Push Privatization in 2015
…parents can choose a school that they regard as best for their child. Thanks to the work of the Koch-funded ALEC, David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, and the DeVos-funded American…
“National School Choice Week” Fueled by Major Right-Wing Funders and Corporate Lobby Groups
…in 2014—the week has grown rapidly through the backing of advocacy groups and deep pockets of funders focused on promoting charters, vouchers, and tax credits that aid private schools, including…
CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General
…has documented Exxon funding for ALEC at least as early as 1981. This funding makes ExxonMobil one of ALEC’s biggest financial supporters as ALEC has promoted legislation, resolutions, presentations, and…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…the face of criticism for its assault on the civil rights movement, the John Birch Society also funded a scholarship program to give college funds to African Americans who were…