Coal companies met with GOP attorneys general to stop the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
Coal Firms Met with GOP AGs to Stop Clean Power Plan
Source: Public News Service | Published: 9/19/2016
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Fossil Fuel Companies Used Closed Door Meetings to Try to Shut Down Clean Power Plan
Source: WSIU | Published: 9/19/2016
Fossil-fuel companies Murray Energy and Southern Company paid for private meetings with Republican state attorneys general to discuss opposition to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan less than two weeks before the same officials asked a federal judge to block the measure.
Because Scott Walker Asked
Source: The Guardian | Published: 9/14/2016
Leaked court documents from ‘John Doe investigation’ in Wisconsin lay bare pervasive influence of corporate cash on modern US elections.
Leaked documents reveal secretive influence of corporate cash on politics
Source: The Guardian | Published: 9/14/2016
Sealed Wisconsin court documents from Scott Walker investigation expose extent of corporate influence on democratic process rarely seen by the public.
Leaked ‘John Doe’ Docs Offer Stark Look at Post-Citizens United Landscape
Source: Common Dreams | Published: 9/14/2016
Exposé speaks to ‘mounting sense of public unease about the cozy relationship between politicians and big business,’ writes the Guardian.
States Attorneys General Are For Sale to the Highest Bidder
Source: Newsweek | Published: 9/10/2016
Stories of elected officials selling influence to special interests have become a fact of life in American politics. But there are still some public officials whom voters typically expect to be immune from the influence of donors.
The Shackling of the American City
Source: Slate | Published: 9/9/2016
Local governments want to set their own minimum wages, gun laws, and smoking bans. And statehouses have methodically stripped away their powers to do so.
Confidential Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Plotted With GOP AGs to Attack Clean Power Plan
Source: EcoWatch | Published: 9/8/2016
On Sept. 27, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) brought by industry and state attorneys general. New revelations shine some light on the shady origin of this legal effort to prevent climate action.
Pay to Play
Source: Grist | Published: 9/8/2016
The coal industry paid for meetings with state attorneys general to discuss fighting the Clean Power Plan.
Here Are The Details Media Ought To Report About Trump’s Cleveland School Visit
Source: Media Matters for America | Published: 9/8/2016
Trump appeared at a struggling school privately managed by a for-profit company led by an education privatization proponent with ties to the right-wing American Legislative Education Council (ALEC) and a track record that’s been criticized by even national charter school advocates.