At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters–including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy–continue to dominate the funding of…

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At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters–including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy–continue to dominate the funding of…
…Last June, the federal Environmental Protection Agency took the long-overdue step of limiting carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants. At the behest of its funders, ALEC has been organizing a…
…all funded both ACSH and ALEC. See CMD’s full review of ACSH’s known financial underwriters below: Funder Amount Donated Funding source Years 3M $30,000 2012 Bodman Foundation $90,000 investment…
…the ACCE meeting, noting that defending the laws would be coordinated with the Heritage Foundation, which is funded by the Koch Brothers and numerous corporations that fund ALEC. In recent…
…funders once its actual legislative agenda and its operations receive public scrutiny. As CMD has reported, ALEC’s funding was down by at least $1.3 million in 2013, nearly 20% of…
…Work Committee, while the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation gave a $15,000 grant to the NRTWLDF, which has also received significant funding from the Koch-connected DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund….
…SPN in 2013 which detailed the Koch funding of that network. “At least 13 SPN think tanks, not including SPN itself or SPN associate members, have received funding directly from…
…chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC “scholarship fund,” which raises more than $600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences,…
…key funders (bolded funders have also funded ALEC): Giving $1.5 million or more: Donors Capital Fund Giving $250,000 to $600,000: DonorsTrust Inc. Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program (a donor-advised fund)…
…— of a total reported 129 grants that year — were from mysterious sources: the “State Think Tank Fund”, the “Government Transparency Fund” and the “Paul Revere Fund.” A fourth…