…Vapor: How FDA Oversight Works,” led by Elizabeth Oestreich, Vice President of Regulatory Compliance at the consulting firm Greenleaf Health. Oestreich will “share the latest on FDA action” after Congress…
ALEC to Host “Free Speech Dinner” with Anti-LGBT Group in Arizona
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding an “Inaugural Free Speech Dinner” with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian Right litigation outfit, on December 4, the first day of…
Koch Foundations Increased Media Investments in 2018
…by CKF, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute. The series presents “a marketplace for competing ideas,” said Goldberg. CKF is “excited” to “[support] The…
Wisconsin Governor Evers Signs ALEC-Inspired Bill to Criminalize Protest
…free speech and the right to assembly.” The law, now 2019 Wisconsin Act 33, echoes similar “critical infrastructure protection” model bills pushed out by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)…
Koch Invested $127.5 Million in Building Right-Wing Infrastructure in 2018
…the so-called “talent pipeline” needed to staff it, IRS filings obtained and examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) show. The Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) pulled in over…
“This is Extortion”: Koch Industries Gets Another Tax Break
…future.” Nationally, as reported by CMD, Georgia-Pacific has laid off at least 2,100 workers, and the company closed its Coos Bay, Oregon lumber mill in April, costing 111 jobs. Koch…
Who Is Capturing Our Courts (Wisconsin Edition)?
…RSLC $100,000 and the American Transmission Company, which is trying to build huge electrical towers across the state to Illinois, gave RSLC $25,000 this year, for example.) Because RSLC combines…
Koch Machine Steps up Lobbying to Stall Climate Action, Fight Donor Disclosure
…spent $9.1 million on lobbying for the first three quarters of 2019, both for the company’s own lobbyists and outside lobbying firms. At the same point last year, the company…
Koch Network Dominates SPN Annual Meeting Attendees
…tobacco products and against cigarette and vaping regulations. Marathon Petroleum, Liberty Oilfield Services, and Southern Company join Koch Companies as the fossil fuel companies in attendance. SPN member groups have…
Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members
…understanding of pharmaceutical innovation, development and pricing…. The program will include discussions of biopharmaceutical advancements, legal and regulatory requirements for the development of new drugs, and free market policy solutions…