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Higher Ground, formerly known as Flood Forum USA, is a project of Anthropocene Alliance that assists victims of flooding and advocates for environmentalist causes. Higher Ground sponsored the Green New Deal in 2019. Higher Ground has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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Non-profit
Fearless Fund is an environmentalist research group focusing on sustainable resource generation from the ocean. The organization is comprised of scientists, bioengineers, and entrepreneurs1 seeking ways to harvest seaweed as a biofuel, in a
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Person
Saket Soni is a left-of-center community organizer responsible for organizing, and ultimately mobilizing, left-leaning constituencies on issues such as immigration and labor, having been profiled as the “architect of the next labor movement” by USA Today.
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Non-profit
Resilience Force is and environmentalist and illegal immigration activism organization that supports local governments aiming to create more left-of-center policy on such issues. It claims to represent the so-called “resilience workforce” of disaster aid workers.
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Non-profit
The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust (Grantham Trust) is an organization that makes grants to environmentalist organizations with a focus on the developing world. It is a part of the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. The trust is administered by British investor Jeremy Grantham
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Non-profit
The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is a California-based nonprofit that promotes and funds local-based activism on the environment, consumer and public health issues. To that end, the foundation raises money and awards grants, pushes an environmental message in schools and works with local governments. It further engages
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Non-profit
The Alaska Center (previously called The Alaska Center for the Environment) is a left-of-center environmental advocacy group based in Alaska. The group advocates for automatic voter registration, a carbon tax, mandating 50 percent “renewable” energy statewide by 2025, expanded taxes on oil and natural gas, and other environmentalist policies.
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Michael Chertoff is an attorney and former government official. He was the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2005 to 2009. 1 Chertoff is a “Task Force
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Ryan Alexander is the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a tax policy advocacy organization that is funded by a number of left-of-center advocacy grantmakers. She has worked for non-profits for the majority of her career and often appears on news outlets to discuss tax policy and other issues.
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Person
Benji Backer is an environmentalist activist who associates with the Republican Party politically. He is the founder and president of American Conservation Coalition (ACC), a nominally right-leaning environmentalist organization with financial ties to left-wing environmentalist groups. American Conservation Coalition In 2017, Backer and other conservative students at the University of Washington
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Karen Hughes is a former counselor to President George W. Bush and senior advisor of Americans for Carbon Dividends, a nominally right-leaning advocacy group created in 2018 to lobby Congressional Republicans for a carbon tax-and-dividend program.
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Rob Sisson is the President of the Michigan-based environmentalist nonprofit ConservAmerica (formerly known as Republicans for Environmental Protection). In August 2019, Sisson was appointed by President Donald Trump to the International Joint Commission, an American-Canadian bi-national organization that manages border waterways.
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Person
Nan Hayworth is a Republican politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York’s 19th Congressional District from 2011 until 2013. In 2018, Hayworth was appointed by President Donald Trump to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
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Non-profit
ConservAmerica is a right-leaning environmentalist advocacy organization that advocates for conservationist policies and promotes the idea that conservatism and environmentalism are compatible. The group was founded in 1995 under the name Republicans for Environmental Protection. Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship (CRS), formally “Rep Environmental Education Foundation,” is the 501(c)(3) fundraising
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David Bookbinder is an attorney and chief counsel to the Niskanen Center, a center-left and nominally libertarian think tank. Prior to that, Bookbinder was chief climate counsel to the Sierra Club, where he managed the group’s involvement in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA, which established the
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Non-profit
The Quadrivium Foundation (legal name Quadrivium) is a left-leaning grantmaking foundation that provides funding to social and political research groups. It is associated with James and Kathryn Murdoch, the most notable left-leaning family members of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch. Quadrivium works with Unite America Institute and a
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Kathryn Murdoch is a left-leaning political activist and donor to liberal causes. Kathryn is the wife of James Murdoch, the liberal-leaning son of News Corporation co-founder Rupert. With her husband she is co-founder and president of the Quadrivium Foundation; she sits on the boards of a number of left-of-center advocacy
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Person
Ted Halstead was an environmentalist activist and an advocate for left-leaning environmental policies. He was co-founder and president of the Climate Leadership Council, a co-founder of the left-leaning think tank New America, and founder of the now-defunct Redefining Progress. He was a TED Talk speaker and co-author of
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Non-profit
The Harry Potter Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses the Harry Potter series of novels to advocate in areas such as climate change, racial justice, and LGBT interests.
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Political Party/527
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described “democratic socialist,” unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
