Peabody Punked, Still "Proud" of Dirty Electricity
Photo Credit: Business Insider A website campaign known as "Coal Cares" was launched on behalf of Peabody Energy today, offering to distribute free flashy inhalers to children living within 200 miles...
View ArticleALEC EXPOSED: Polluter Front Group's Dirty Secrets Revealed
ALEC ExposedCrossposted from Greenpeace USA.Charles KochDavid KochRex Tillerson read more
View ArticleHeartland Institute and ALEC Partner to Pollute Classroom Science
ALEC and Heartland: Classroom Climate Denial PeddlersPolluterWatch:Greenpeace Investigates Heartland Institute Leaked Documents -- click to see investigation and ongoing updates.UPDATE: After dropping...
View ArticleClimate Denial University? The Heartland Institute's Toxic Presence in Higher...
Image sourcePolluterWatch: Greenpeace Investigates Heartland Institute Leaked Documents -- click to see investigation and ongoing updates.ExxonMobilKoch IndustriesPeabody EnergyJoseph Bastread more
View ArticleWhat's on ALEC's polluter agenda tomorrow?
ALEC Exposed Tomorrow, the American Legislative Exchange Council--known as ALEC--will host their 2012 Spring Task Force summit in Charlotte, NC. At tomorrow's meeting, the corporate front group will...
View ArticleCoal Utility CEO dismisses link between Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change
Image source: Knoxville News SentinalDuh. That's probably what you thought to yourself when you read my headline. Yes, as American families on the east coast are reeling from an unprecedented weather...
View ArticleDuke Energy and ALEC Attack North Carolina Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
NC Rep. Mike Hager: ALEC member and former Duke Energy employee.Corporate polluters are taking aim this year at states with renewable energy laws, starting with an attack on North Carolina's clean...
View ArticleWill ALEC block EPA coal pollution safeguards at Illinois' controversial...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the Illinois-based Prairie State Energy Campus, a combined coal mine and power plant spearheaded by Peabody Energy, co-owned by eight public...
View ArticleKoch Industries funds ALEC and State Policy Network front groups to kill...
Crossposted from Greenpeace USA. Correction: this post listed Sen. Julia Lynn as a supporter of the RPS freeze--she is not and her name was removed from SB 82 co-sponsors below.A recent flood of...
View ArticlePeabody Energy dumps retirees in to company "created to fail," then cuts...
Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the US and one of the largest in the world, is once again embroiled in controversy over shady treatment of employees. In 2007, Peabody Energy created Patriot...
View ArticleALEC Energy Director Misleads the Wall Street Journal
Todd Wynn: director of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, formerly of Cascade Policy Institute. Cascade and ALEC are two of the many front groups coordinated under the umbrella of...
View ArticleALEC CEO Lisa Nelson has a Climate Science Problem (VIDEO)
The third and final meeting of the year for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) just wrapped up in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week.On the day of ALEC's board meeting, Greenpeace attempted...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Emails: Oil Lobbyists Drafted His Letters as Oklahoma's AG
Scott Pruitt had a bad habit as Oklahoma's attorney general: he liked to have oil lobbyists ghostwrite his official government letters calling for limits to enforcing federal pollution laws.American...
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