Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Paris Rises from the Dead
San Francisco is awash in five things: Homeless people, discarded needles, garbage, human feces, and virtually unlimited cash for the environmental Left. This once great city by the bay is…
Paris Climate Agreement
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Tom Steyer
After Al Gore, Thomas Fahr Steyer is one of the best-known ultra-wealthy sages of the environmentalist movement. Since diving headfirst into electoral politics—signaling his interest in running for California governor…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Sea Change Foundation
On the more moderate end of the San Francisco “green” lagoon is Nathaniel “Nat” Simons, a Bay Area billionaire who made his fortune brilliantly managing hedge funds. Simons is the…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Energy Foundation
The Energy Foundation is unique as a massive pass-through funder endowed by liberal mega-donors to provide a new source of perpetual funding for the environmental Left. As its name suggests,…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: ClimateWorks Foundation
The ClimateWorks Foundation was conceived in 2006 as a joint pass-through project of multiple major grantmaking foundations: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the…
The “Dark Money” Behind the Effort to “Decarbonize” Every House in America
Arabella Advisors’ $731 million “dark money” nonprofit network is behind a campaign to cut off every house in America from natural gas and make them dependent on electric-only appliances, part…
The Left’s War on Coal: Why Coal Matters
“Go green”—and go broke. President Biden is in the White House and radical environmentalists are in the driver’s seat, with global warming taking a central role in every department and…
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…
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…