climate change

Organization Trends
Record Number of ESG Shareholder Resolutions in 2022
According to the recently released Proxy Preview 2022 report, a record number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) shareholder proposals have been filed with publicly traded companies in 2022, predominately…
by Robert Stilson on April 11, 2022

Commentary
The Murdoch Mission to Save Democracy: The Rest of the Story
On March 14 the New York Times ran a profile of wealthy lefty activist Kathryn Murdoch, daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, under the cloying headline “How a Murdoch Hopes…
by CRC Staff on March 24, 2022

Green Watch
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

Green Watch
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

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: “Keep It in the Ground”
For years “dark money” activists ran a coordinated campaign to sabotage and undermine the Trump administration from the offices of Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC. The campaign culminated in the…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: Web of “Pop-Up” Groups
Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC, that quietly runs arguably the most powerful activist and lobbying network in politics. Beginning in 2017, Arabella turned its guns on…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: Anatomy of an Arabella Campaign
From 2017 to 2018, the Western Values Project ran an all-out attack against Trump administration Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, publishing post after post savaging Zinke and his staff.
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021

Organization Trends
Arabella’s Long War: Harried Until the End
With Zinke out of the way, the Left’s campaign shifted to halting Trump’s supposed war on public lands until he left office in January 2021. Among President Joe Biden’s first…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 12, 2021

Featured Items, Green Watch
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

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for September 2021
In outlets as diverse as the Washington Free Beacon, LifeSite, the Daily Signal, and RealClearEnergy, our original reporting on topics such as the left-wing funding of eco-conservatism and the union…
by Sarah Lee on October 21, 2021