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Annual Revenue of Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Exceeds $2.3 Billion
As many as 1,000 groups in the United States have an agenda that includes opposition to the nation’s largest source of carbon-free energy. More than 200 have recently been identified…
by Ken Braun on August 9, 2023

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Facebook’s ESG Agenda Went Down to Georgia (and Trashed a Trophy Fishing Lake)
Meta, the parent firm of Facebook, was in the media promoting its environmental, social and governance virtues in December 2021. That preening didn’t end well for the company this month after…
by Ken Braun on May 18, 2023

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Blame Environmentalists for High Gas Prices—and Doing Russia’s Bidding
With the war in Ukraine, Americans are rediscovering the value of cheap and abundant electricity and why past generations craved independence from hostile oil exporters. Not long ago, people knew…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 22, 2022

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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

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Featured Video: How China Designed American Environmental Policy
China is perhaps the world environment’s greatest enemy. They’re the world’s largest source of Marine debris, the largest consumer of trafficked wildlife and timber products, the greatest emitter of mercury,…
by CRC Staff on February 17, 2021

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Capital Research, October 2020
We are pleased to announce that the October 2020 issue of Capital Research is now available online. Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Kevin Mooney looks at how China used environmental…
by CRC Staff on November 17, 2020

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China’s Green Offensive: The Paris Climate Agreement
Several well-funded, environmental advocacy groups lobbied and advised the Obama administration on joining the Paris Climate Agreement without disclosing their close ties to the communist government in Beijing. The agreement…
by Kevin Mooney on October 30, 2020

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China’s Green Offensive: The Obama State Department
The major target for activists and media types gathered at U.N. meetings is not China, but the United States. In fact, compliant media organs provide China with a platform to…
by Kevin Mooney on October 30, 2020

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China’s Green Offensive: China and Foreign Agents
Since the Paris Agreement has become a major issue in the 2020 election, now is a good time to “flush out” and “revisit” some of the “major takeaways” from the…
by Kevin Mooney on October 30, 2020

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China’s Green Offensive: The Future of Green Lawfare
What happens next depends partly on what happens in the courtroom. “There has been such a huge body of cases that has built up around the National Environmental Policy Act…
by Kevin Mooney on October 30, 2020