Search results for ‘climate change’


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    Niskanen Center For Public Policy

    The Niskanen Center For Public Policy is the lobbying arm of the right-leaning Niskanen Center, an environmentalist think tank created in 2016. Leadership According to its 2017 IRS filing (Form 990), the Niskanen Center for Public Policy reported three unpaid board members, all of whom are listed as officers of
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    Carbon Underground

    The Carbon Underground is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that advocates for drawing carbon from the atmosphere through soil restoration as a solution to climate change.
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    Future Majority

    Future Majority is an advocacy group started in 2018 that supports Democrats and left-of-center institutions on policy, political messaging, and election strategy. 1 Future Majority’s
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    Alliance for Market Solutions

    The Alliance for Market Solutions (AMS) is a notionally right-of-center organization that advocates in favor of implementing a carbon tax to address concerns about climate change. 1 AMS works
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    Partnership for Policy Integrity

    The Partnership for Policy Integrity advocates against modern methods of natural gas extraction. Partnership for Policy Integrity has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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    Population Media Center

    Population Media Center (PMC) is a left-of-center media company that produces serialized dramas in developing countries to encourage population control through family-planning education. PMC has reached more than 13 million individuals in the last five years, with an average of 1.5 million viewers per show.
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    Rachel Carson Council

    Rachel Carson Council (RCC) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that writes reports on various industries and advocates for left-of-center policies based on its own work and that of other environmentalist groups. RCC engages in advocacy based around regulating and opposing certain agriculture and farming practices such as pesticide use and
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    North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC-WARN)

    The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network is a left-of-center environmentalist group that opposes the use of hydraulic fracturing to collect natural gas. It has targeted Duke Energy with anti-coal-power demonstrations in the past. The organization signed on as a sponsor of the Green New Deal and has
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    Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

    The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a left-leaning environmentalist organization that advocates against businesses which produce conventional energy sources (such as oil and natural gas), paper products, and consumer goods. Founded in 1985, RAN frequently ties its mission to the identity politics common on the American Left.
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    Panta Rhea Foundation

    Panta Rhea Foundation is a grantmaking foundation located in La Jolla, California. It makes grants primarily to left-leaning organizations that focus on racial and economic issues, food systems, democracy, and climate change. It has aligned itself with left-of-center organizations to oppose conventional energy infrastructure.
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    Green New Deal (GND)

    See also: Green New Deal (Hub) The Green New Deal (GND) refers to a U.S. House of Representatives resolution and various legislative proposals supported by radical environmentalist groups. While details of the “Deal” are unclear and frequently change, an attempt to estimate the cost of the plan that critics call
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    Kathleen Welch

    Kathleen Welch is a principal at Corridor Partners, a left-of-center political advocacy and strategy investment firm that focuses on energy and environment issues. A 2013 HuffPost article described Welch as “a highly influential figure in Democratic fundraising circles, playing a central role in steering money to environmental and
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    Lee Wasserman

    Lee Wasserman is an American nonprofit executive and environmental policymaker. He is the current Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a leading financial supporter of environmentalist organizations. Wasserman’s career has primarily revolved around environmentalist work, and he previously worked as executive director for the Environmental Advocates of New
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    Heather Reams

    Heather Reams is the executive director of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES), a right-leaning environmentalist advocacy group funded by and connected to other center-left environmentalist organizations. CRES works to lobby Republican-controlled legislatures at the federal and state levels to adopt environmentalist policy.
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    Building Equity and Alignment Impact (BEAI) Fund

    The Building Equity and Alignment Impact Fund (BEAI Fund) is an environmentalist funding vehicle hosted by Grassroots International, a left-of-center organization. The group has a goal of raising and sending $10 million to local-level environmentalist advocacy groups. Background Building Equity and Alignment Impact Fund was established in 2013 as a coalition
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    Progressive Multiplier Fund

    The Progressive Multiplier Fund (PMF) is an organization that helps left-of-center non-profits with revenue generation. A project of the advocacy group Center for Community Change Action, it is led by former Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford. PMF created an information hub called the Center of Excellence to assist 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4)
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    ClientEarth

    ClientEarth is an environmental law organization based in the United Kingdom. The McIntosh Foundation awarded ClientEarth its first grant; Winsome McIntosh was the founding board chair. ClientEarth operates all over Europe and China and has a branch in the U.S. registered as ClientEarth US to secure tax benefits to U.S.
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    Schooner Foundation

    The Schooner Foundation is a nonprofit, private foundation established in 1996 by Vincent Ryan, the multimillionaire1 investment
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    Heising-Simons Foundation

    The Heising-Simons Foundation is a California-based private family foundation led by liberal philanthropists and major Democratic Party donors Liz Simons and her husband Mark Heising. The Heising-Simons Foundation primarily funds organizations that work on environmentalist policy, climate change, scientific research, education, and human rights issues.
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    Resources for Abortion Delivery

    Resources for Abortion Delivery is a left-of-center abortion advocacy organization that works toward easier access to abortions, particularly for poor and low-income women. 1 Resources for Abortion Delivery is a project created in 2016 by