6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025 - DeSmog
Aug 14, 2024 · Charles Koch in 2019. Credit: Wikipedia Koch’s largest donations to Project 2025 groups since 2020 included $3.8 million to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a climate-change-denying nonprofit with close links to both the Heritage Foundation and the Trump administration. In 2018, Trump tapped Brooke Rollins, TPPF’s CEO since 2003, for a post at the Office of American Innovation ...
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Dec 19, 2024 · At McNeese State University’s LNG center, “we want to ensure that our LNG industry has a major say in research direction,” one of its project leaders wrote. At McNeese State University’s LNG center, “we want to ensure that our LNG industry has a major say in research direction,” one of ...
‘A Valuable And Generous Ally’: How Exxon and Atlas Network …
Dec 9, 2024 · In March 1999, Alejandro Chafuen, then president of an international free-market coalition called Atlas Network, wrote to an executive at ExxonMobil (XOM) to offer the American oil major a friendly note of appreciation. “On behalf of Atlas and the institutes it supports, we would like to thank you again for the Exxon Corporation’s generous contributions,” Chafuen stated, “and for the ...
Kemi Badenoch’s Climate Denial Tour - DeSmog
Dec 12, 2024 · Badenoch describes herself as a “net zero sceptic” and has suggested that the UK’s 2050 target for achieving net zero emissions would “bankrupt the country”. As DeSmog has reported, her political advisors have attacked the UK’s climate goals, and her campaign for Tory leader was backed by Neil Record, chair of Net Zero Watch, an arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation climate ...
Beyond Action for Action's Sake: Why the Climate Crisis Demands …
Nov 3, 2024 · Steffi Bednarek will appear at the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024 staged online from November 15 to 21 by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Free registration here.. When the COP29 climate talks open in Azerbaijan next week, we’ll no doubt be told that we’re in an unprecedented and dangerous situation, that there’s little time left, and that we’re not moving in the right ...
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick: Where Do They Stand on …
Oct 10, 2024 · The contest for a new Conservative Party leader is nearing its conclusion, with Tory MPs this week voting for Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick as the final two contenders in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, following the elimination of former home secretary James Cleverly. DeSmog has been tracking the views of all the Tory […]
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.
The Wrong Lesson From Trudeau’s Fall Is That Climate Action Is ...
2 days ago · The slow-motion resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally official. After months of plunging polls, lost by-elections and an accelerating caucus revolt, Trudeau deigned to throw in the towel on his unpopular reign after a new Liberal leader is chosen sometime in the next three months.
Trump EPA Pick Lee Zeldin Backed by Texas Fracking Billionaire …
Nov 13, 2024 · The former Republican congressperson selected by Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has the backing of a religious-right fracking billionaire from Texas. Zeldin is currently a chair at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a conservative think tank co-founded by Tim Dunn, founder of …
Group That Calls CO2 ‘Essential’ Praises Trump Energy Secretary …
Nov 27, 2024 · Screenshot from CO2 Coalition emailed newsletter. Credit: CO2 Coalition. Backed by Koch. In email correspondence with DeSmog, Wrightstone explained how his meeting with the future nominee for energy secretary came about several years ago: “I was speaking at an event in Denver and set up a meeting in his office,” he wrote.