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Green Watch
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

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Committee Hearing Debacle
The Ford Foundation gives well over $100 million per year to programs that advance policy and political wins for the Left and Democratic politicians, yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Senator Cancel Culture
The Ford Foundation is an accidental byproduct of bad tax policy and unforeseen consequences. Confiscatory estate tax rates during the first half of the 20th century left one of the…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Hard Left Turns
Sen. Whitehouse’s assertion that the Ford Foundation “doesn’t seem to have much in the way of a political motive or purpose” is contradicted by tens of millions of dollars in…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Foundation Watch
The Left’s Mystery Billionaire: Dark Roads Through Arabella
At least 114 separate Ford Foundation grants, totaling almost $65 million, were given over the previous five years to the New Venture Fund. In Sen. Whitehouse’s classification system, each one…
by Ken Braun on November 2, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits in the Biden Administration: Special Interest and Advocacy Groups
Many of those serving in the Biden administration have previously worked for left-leaning special interest and advocacy groups. The influence of these organizations, which strive to shape public policy along…
by Robert Stilson on June 28, 2021

Green Watch
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…
by Ken Braun on March 16, 2021

Green Watch
Environmentalists Spent a Record $2.4 Billion Pushing Global Warming Ideology
New research from the Capital Research Center reveals that groups on the environmental Left poured out the record $2.4 billion in 2019 (see the data in the Appendix). This stunning…
by Hayden Ludwig on February 22, 2021

Green Watch
Eco-Right and Environmentalist Groups Heavily Funded by Mega-Donors John and Laura Arnold
New documents reveal that a number of conservative environmentalist and pro-carbon tax groups are heavily funded by liberal mega-donor John and Laura Arnold, much of it through Arnold Ventures, the…
by Hayden Ludwig on February 19, 2021

Philanthropy
Revival of DOJ “Slush-Fund” Settlements Raises Important Questions About the Nonprofit Organization Revolving Door
The president’s day one executive order directing a review of numerous agency actions related to climate change and the environment. One such review involves the possibility of reviving a controversial Justice Department practice allowing…
by Robert Stilson on February 16, 2021