Tag: Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy
Americans For Prosperity Leads Fossil Fuel Front Group Push for Crude Oil Exports, Anti-Renewables Lobbying
The fossil fuel-funded Americans for Prosperity wrote a coalition to Congress signed by 21 front groups calling for the elimination of the oil export ban.
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Industry-funded Front Groups Working Together To Fight Clean Power Plan
These ten industry-funded front groups have been working to stop the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations seeking to combat combat climate change.
West Virginia Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The West Virginia State Legislature passed a bill in January 2015 to repeal the state’s Alternative Renewable Energy Standard (RES). Governor Earl Tomblin signed the bill in February. Groups and reporters calling this...
Texas Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Texas Senate voted in mid-April to eliminate the state’s renewable energy standard (RES) with a party-line vote of 21-10. Senator Troy Fraser argued that the state had accomplished the...
Oklahoma Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Oklahoma State Legislature reached a compromise with the wind energy industry 2015, passing two bills, that would phase out the state’s five-year property tax exemption for wind energy projects and eliminate wind energy’s eligibility...
Colorado Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
The Colorado renewable energy standard has seen attacks in the legislature and the courts from anti-clean energy front groups. In the courts, the Heartland Institute highlighted the fossil fuel-funded Energy & Environment Legal...
The Secret Network of Fossil Fuel & Utility Backed Groups Working to Stop Clean Energy
Energy & Policy Institute's new report exposes the strategies, front groups, and people used by the fossil fuel and utility corporations to attack clean energy policies.
Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015
Front groups, fossil fuel interests, and utility companies attacked net metering and renewable energy standards in states across the country in 2015, in an effort to delay the growth of...
Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy Releases Anti-Solar Report
CARE is a fossil fuel-funded advocacy organization that opposes environmental activism and says that the pursuit of renewable energy will “end the America we know and love.”