The Left’s War on Coal: The Hawaiian Model
In 2017, Hawaii’s biggest utility provider announced it was shutting down AES Hawaii on Oahu, the state’s last coal-fired plant, in order to replace it with renewables in 2022, part…
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The Left’s War on Coal: Global Warming Is Great for Business
Two decades after the Enron collapse, the parallels between cronyism and activism are striking. Far from their traditional role as the bogeymen of the eco-Left, Big Oil and Gas are…
The Left’s War on Coal: “Green” Activism Inc.
The environmental Left doesn’t merely want to replace coal; it hates it. Far-left Greenpeace believes that “ending our addiction to coal should be non-negotiable.” Coal survived the Obama years, but…
Ken Braun Talks Hollywood Leftism with Bill Meyer
On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, Ken Braun talked with Bill Meyer on The Bill Meyer Show about his four-part series on how eBay founder Jeffrey is using Participant Media to…
“Labor Conservatives” Have a Compass, but Which Way Is North?
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
Ken Dayton on Good Nonprofit-Board Governance
John Tuso’s new book recalls his advice succinctly: simply support and supervise management. CEOs shouldn’t surrender, and boards shouldn’t usurp, power. In the nonprofit context particularly, directors should also be…
Correcting the Record: Letter to the Editor of Salon
On March 2, 2021, an article in Salon mischaracterized “Radical Lives Matter,” a report by CRC president Scott Walter. Walter sent a letter asking for a correction to a rather…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #160: The Worst Bill in Congress
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives again advanced the odious catalog of Big Labor favors known as the “PRO Act” on a nearly party-line vote. While the legislation will…
Scott Walter Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee
My preferred definition of “dark money” came from a witty man who said: Dark money is support for speech the Left wants to silence. That definition reveals how “dark money”…
Scott Walter’s Written Statement Before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee
At Capital Research Center, where I work, we’re in our fourth decade of studying the sort of money flows discussed in the Captured Courts report issued by the Democratic Policy…