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Green Watch
Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024, she called for…
by Ken Braun on April 10, 2025

Green Watch
Foreign-Funded Plastic Lawfare
A foreign charity funded by an Australian billionaire has paid an American law firm to represent four tax-exempt environmental activist groups in a lawsuit against a ExxonMobil to a special…
by Robert Stilson on March 31, 2025

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 February 21, 2025

Organization Trends
Nowhere to Live? Blame the Government
For those wondering how America’s unaffordable housing market became exactly that, Pacific Legal Foundation vice president James S. Burling has an answer in his new book. Many of the root…
by Robert Stilson on September 17, 2024

Green Watch
Oakland, California: High Crime, High Energy Prices, and a Lot of Left-Wing Nonprofits
Oakland, California, is home to a disproportionate share of America’s stridently left-wing nonprofits. Twenty-six of the most strident examples have a combined annual revenue of more than $566 million. That…
by Ken Braun on August 13, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Congress Approves of Nuclear Energy, but There’s Still a $2.3 Billion Annual Opposition
The traditional enemies of America’s largest source of carbon-free electricity show no signs of growing weaker. American nonprofits with a known opposition to nuclear power have a combined annual revenue…
by Ken Braun on July 9, 2024