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Green Watch
Forced Electrification: “Net-Zero Carbon”
Activists point out that the transportation and electricity generation sectors together account for 54 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Turning them carbon-free would dramatically lower total U.S. emissions—hence,…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 24, 2022

Green Watch
Forced Electrification: Grassroots Rising
In states, legislatures have enacted or are considering legislation to block local governments from enacting natural gas bans, accounting for one-third of national gas consumption. Many of the bills came…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 24, 2022

Philanthropy
The Gilded Left’s Favorite Bay Area Bankroller
In 2020, more than $2.6 billion that flowed through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), much of it virtually invisible to the public eye. This included more than $744 million…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 11, 2022

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

Labor Watch
Social Justice Unionism
If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has repeatedly demonstrated that Big Labor remains a potent force in American culture and politics, even though its power has declined since the 1950s,…
by CRC Staff on December 31, 2021

Labor Watch
The Big Labor–Big Green Alliance in One Provision
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…
by Michael Watson on October 18, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
SEIU Throws Weight Behind Mail-In Voting
One of the largest and most politically active unions in America gave $40,000 to a group that registers Virginians to receive absentee ballots in an effort to bolster Democratic turnout for the…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 27, 2021

Foundation Watch
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Community Foundations
America has always had its patricians, but as the word suggests, they saw themselves as patriotic “fathers” of their country, and their wealth and prestige were tied up in their…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 20, 2021

Foundation Watch
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Grants
So which politically active organizations are the biggest beneficiaries of community foundation money? To sift through tens of thousands of grants and avoid cherry-picking recipients, we identified nonprofits that are…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 20, 2021

Foundation Watch
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Donors
Community foundation grants ultimately originated with (mostly) anonymous donors, not the community foundations themselves, which serve as conduits for donor-advised-fund account holders. The largest community foundation givers on this list…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 20, 2021