Big bucks are being spent by the soda industry on ballot measures to ban local soda tax campaigns in Oregon and Washington state.
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The Climate Twilight Zone
Reducing CO2 emissions alone will not solve the climate problem at this late date. We must also get to work on removing CO2 from our skies.
KochPAC “Pay to Play” Aims to Slow Solar, Renewables
Congressional recipients of Koch money lead charge on bad energy legislation.
ALEC Flaunts Trump Ties While Celebrating Its 45th Anniversary at POTUS’s DC Hotel
The American Legislative Exchange Council will welcome legislators and corporate lobbyists to the Trump International Hotel tonight to mark 45 years.
Americans for Prosperity Lies in Recent Tennessee, Wisconsin TV Ads
Koch astroturf group’s ads are fake news.
Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist
CMD exposé and coalition letter of protest prompt major ALEC backer to abandon ship after David Horowitz’s vitriolic speech at ALEC’s annual meeting.
NC Decision to Bar Climate Science from Planning Will Prove Costly
North Carolina’s state legislature in 2012 passed what may have been the nation’s first state-wide global warming denial legislation.
Kochs Put Cash over Principle to Endorse Pro-ACA Rep. Will Hurd
Vote to give Kochs a $1.4 billion tax windfall trumps Affordable Care Act repeal when it comes to tight Texas House race.
Goldwater Institute’s Influence Apparent in AZ Supreme Court Decision to Strike Down Prop. 207
The unprecedented ruling was made possible thanks to controversial moves by Gov. Doug Ducey and his GOP allies in the legislature over the past two years.
I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About
He should be impeached, not elevated.