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Letter Urging McCarthy to Kill House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis: A Who’s Who on the Wrong Side of History
A group of mostly Libertarian, free market, anti-government, anti-regulatory, anti-tax organizations, sent a letter to Representative Kevin McCarthy asking that he disband the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis if Republicans take over the House …
BBC Radio Series Tracks History of Climate Denial
The BBC has launched a two hour series on the history of corporate climate denial. The series starts in 1988 and traces the rise in climate policy attacks through the George W. Bush Administration in …
On 60 Minutes Trump Says: “I’m not denying climate change”
(Updated to include AP interview, Oct 18, 2018) Climate change is coming at Trump even as he tries like hell to avoid the subject. Record setting hurricanes, Florence and Michael, have caused devastation across the …
The Covert Attack on Sen. McCain’s Climate Leadership by ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers
InsideClimate News’ Marianne Lavelle published a long piece this weekend, chronicling Senator John McCain’s rise and fall as a climate leader. The story highlights a campaign I worked on in 2000, where we asked all …
America First Energy Conference Stacked With Climate Change Deniers
On November 9th, the climate change denying Heartland Institute is holding an energy conference in Houston to applaud the Trump Administration’s repeal of environmental protections and clean energy policy. According to its website, the conference …
Cooler Heads Coalition
The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC), the longest running climate denial coalition, describes itself as an “informal and ad-hoc group focused on dispelling the myths of global warming…”. Translation: a coalition of climate denying organizations, funded through the years …
Exxon and Koch Funded Deniers Who Pushed Trump to Exit Paris Climate Agreement
The Money Behind Paris Agreement Opposition On May 8th, 2017, forty four climate denying “free market” anti-government organizations wrote a letter to President Trump urging him to pull the United States out of the Paris …
Washington Post: Exxon, Koch, and Big Coal Cash Begat Trump Climate Denial
Q: What does spending tens of millions of dollars supporting climate denial organizations over a twenty year period buy you? A: Donald Trump, abdication of U.S. leadership on climate and increased risk of damage from …
Hurricane Harvey, Climate Denial, Fake News and ExxonMobil
For well over twenty years, climate deniers have tried to stymie discussion of extreme weather events and climate change. Why? Because extreme weather kills people, destroys property, trashes things and costs billions of dollars. And …
The Heartland Institute
Background The Heartland Institute is a free market think tank at the forefront of denying manmade climate change. Joseph Bast was the director and CEO of the institute from it’s inception in 1984 until 2017. …