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Billion-Dollar Network Is Playing Politics in America’s Energy Sector, Driving up Costs: Ken Braun
Environmental groups and advocates are spending billions of dollars every year playing politics with America’s energy sector while simultaneously driving up energy costs for Americans, according to Ken Braun, the senior investigative researcher at the Capital…
by CRC Staff on January 5, 2022

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Rise of the Eco-Right
The Capital Research Center broke the news on liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right, which advocate for carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations to address the supposed…
by CRC Staff on December 27, 2021

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A Carbon Tax Will Make for an Even Darker Winter
Senate Democrats are considering a tax on carbon as part of their multi-trillion-dollar spending package. Two holdouts, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), have announced their opposition…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 7, 2021

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Tom Wolf’s Proposed Climate Catastrophe
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) is on the precipice of deciding whether Pennsylvania should join the Regional Green Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multistate “cap and trade” agreement that sets limits…
by CRC Staff on October 28, 2021

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Who Paid for “Climate Chaos” Week?
Last week, a network of radical environmentalist activists staged five days of demonstrations around Washington, DC, to pressure the Biden administration to impose more fossil fuel restrictions and shut down…
by Parker Thayer on October 22, 2021

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Promises More Wind and Solar—Hope You Like Buying Chinese
Count China among the biggest winners if the gargantuan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, if it passes Congress. The bill would allocate $148 billion to climate- and energy-related priorities intended to…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 14, 2021

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Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is CRC's name for “the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 11, 2021

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How the Left Is Spreading Global Warming Alarmism on the Right
If there’s one thing the Left knows cold, it’s deception. Owning the battlefield in this war starts with controlling the language. We’ve seen this play out in the debate over…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 17, 2021

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Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: No Discernable Benefits
What happens next in Pennsylvania’s legal and legislative battles over proposed climate change regulations will largely depend on who controls the narrative about carbon dioxide emissions and their impact. Since…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021

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Climate Change Regulations in Pennsylvania: Disputing the Official Findings and Data
In July 2021, the CO2 Coalition, a Virginia-based nonprofit of roughly 70 scientists, released a new report that disputes the findings of Pennsylvania’s 2018 Climate Action Report, which Gov. Wolf…
by Kevin Mooney on September 10, 2021