League of Conservation Voters

Organization Trends
Demand Justice, the “Dark Money” Group Behind a $10 Million Campaign Against the Supreme Court
For over a year the American public has been deluged with sporadic negative coverage of the Supreme Court. After the Court’s decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Trump…
by Parker Thayer on July 25, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: The “Secretive U.S. Vulture Fund”
Reclusive billionaire C. Frederick Taylor has become a left-wing climate policy influencer to rival Michael Bloomberg. IRS records for 2020 through 2022 show Taylor-funded nonprofits have already spent at least…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Following Fred’s Money
Wellspring was originally named the Matan B’Seter Foundation in its first tax filing back in 2001. The Hebrew phrase means “anonymous gift.” Twenty-One was listed as a major donor to…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Funding of Anti-Energy Radicals
During those three years of the Sequoia/Wellspring funding, a cumulative total of at least $76.9 million was sent out to 18 of the most strident, anti-energy zealots in the climate…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Climate Colonialism
At least $180.5 million of the $450 million in Wellspring/Sequoia climate policy grants given during the 2020 through 2022 donor years—40 percent of the total—went to either nonprofits operating outside…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Testimony
Oral Testimony on Extreme Environmental Activist Groups
Clearly, radical environmentalists are exercising considerable sway over the Interior Department. Americans, especially the poor, deserve to enjoy the benefits of inexpensive energy and abundant resources.
by Scott Walter on May 2, 2024

Testimony
Written Testimony on Extreme Environmental Activist Groups
Radical extremists are showing their contempt for the rule of law and for common decency on college campuses in this city and across the country, harassing Jewish students and defending…
by Scott Walter on April 30, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on April 26, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Corrupt Voter Registration Scheme Persists: VRP’s Activity in 2022 and Beyond
The Everybody Votes Campaign, the largest and most corrupt “charitable” voter registration drive in American history, keeps going and going. It spent roughly $56 million during the 2022 election on…
by Parker Thayer on February 1, 2024

Green Watch
Invenergy: Billionaire Michael Polsky’s Wind Power Colossus
In a 2021 corporate news release, Chicago-based Invenergy claimed to be “the largest privately held global developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions.” Under the guidance of its founder,…
by Ken Braun on November 8, 2023