Research Cited

Republican Attorneys General Met Secretly with Exxon Lobbyists to Stop Climate Change Investigations

Source: DeSmog | Published: 9/30/2016

According to a new report by the watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy, ExxonMobil sent teams of lobbyists to meet with industry-friendly Republican state attorneys general to help stave off a flurry of investigations about the company’s role in obscuring the link between carbon dioxide and climate change, a cover-up which extends as far back as the 1970’s.

Morning Reads: First Debate Does Not Go Well For Trump

Climate, Environment, Trump

Source: Moyers & Company | Published: 9/27/2016

Donald Trump has picked Myron Ebell, head of the Center for Energy and Environment at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, to lead his EPA transition team.

Power Companies Funding Legal Efforts To Overturn Clean Power Plan In Court

Environment, RAGA

Source: Republic Report | Published: 9/27/2016

Lawyers for the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) were among those who argued against the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Gap Co-Founder Doris Fisher Is Bankrolling the Charter School Agenda — And Pouring Dark Money Into CA Politics

Education

Source: Capital & Main | Published: 9/27/2016

As co-founder of the Gap, San Francisco-based business leader and philanthropist Doris Fisher boasts a net worth of $2.6 billion, making her the country’s third richest self-made woman. And she’s focused much of her wealth and resources on building charter schools.

Trump’s Transition Team Has Tapped a Longtime Climate Skeptic to Set Environmental Policy

Climate, Environment, Trump

Source: The Washington Post | Published: 9/26/2016

Donald J. Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency includes a person who has raised doubts about the mainstream scientific consensus that climate change is happening and is caused largely by humans, according to a person familiar with the transition.

Obama’s Climate Legacy Heads to Court

Climate, Environment

Source: Politico | Published: 9/26/2016

The crown jewel of President Barack Obama’s climate change agenda faces its biggest challenge yet when the EPA’s Clean Power Plan goes before a panel of federal appeals judges.

John Nichols: The Fight for Voting Rights Is Not Finished

Democracy

Source: The Capital Times | Published: 9/25/2016

We now know that the reaction of Gov. Walker’s allies to a close election in Wisconsin was an urgent discussion about how to gin up talk of “widespread election fraud” — even though there was no evidence of fraud.

Conservatives Pour Money Into Races for State Attorneys General

Chambers of Commerce, Koch, RAGA

Source: The Washington Post | Published: 9/23/2016

Conservative organizations are pouring money into the coffers of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which is far outpacing its Democratic rival in fundraising to elect candidates who will stand up to what they see as an activist Democratic agenda.

Why the Supreme Court Should Take On Political Corruption in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Source: The New Yorker | Published: 9/23/2016

A few months in to Scott Walker’s term as governor, his right-wing circle mobilized to raise corporate funding in support of a conservative justice on the State Supreme Court.

Poisoned Politics

Wisconsin

Source: Urban Milwaukee | Published: 9/23/2016

Gov. Walker and legislative Republicans’ lead poisoning agenda should sicken us all.