petroleum front groups

A Cleveland-born lobbyist who is implicated in the Paul Manafort indictments has had a long-term cozy relationship with Ohio Republicans and even served on John Kasich's 2016 Presidential Steering Committee. Ed Kutler was a senior lobbyist at powerhouse DC Public Affairs firm, Mercury, until he ...

“There's a broader conversation now with a company like Patagonia that uses petroleum products and then plants their principled flag in the ground,” he said. ... “These front groups are getting a little more engaged in the public conversations and media attention is picking up on them,” said Max Boykoff, ...

He focuses on polluting industries, their front groups and PR operatives, particularly focusing on the Koch Brothers. ... and environmental policy not only for his climate denialism but because he has received substantial campaign financing from the oil billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, with whom ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Despite overwhelming scientific consensus that heat-trapping carbon emissions are warming the planet, a Big Oil attorney ... “Over at least the last 19 years, Exxon in particular has paid researchers and front groups to create uncertainties about basic climate change science and ...

Groups representing the industry say ethanol has real environmental benefits, and the bill would threaten that. “When oil companies try to ghost write legislation for environmental front groups, you end up with some pretty backwards ideas, and that's exactly what this appears to be. It's dead on arrival with ...

Smith, who has taken more than $700,000 in career oil and gas industry campaign contributions, has long maintained that US green groups are ... called the accusations of Russian-backed financing “absurd, false smears” that “were invented by the same deceitful front groups getting paid to do the dirty ...

Well, getting oil and gas out of the ground. Their political views are not ... Midland's Tim Dunn has been doing it for years through his front group, Empower Texans and, among others, is trying to tell people up in the Panhandle that they need to ditch Republican state Sen. Ken Seliger, who is staunchly ...

Todd Young, R-Ind., to help oil companies gut the market for Indiana farmers by dismantling the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). ... The company is using a hidden network of dark money and pay-for-play front groups to dismantle the RFS and attempt to put farmers like me out of business, according to the ...

Then there's the the coup de gra?ce, learning details of the Koch, et al. octopus of front groups such as the AFP with their self-defensive absolutism, ... The Kochs' AFP agenda won't abide a popular, professional-behaving, duly elected County Commissioner who dares expect the oil industry to own up to ...

... Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), Western Energy Alliance, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and its state-level branches, and other oil and gas companies such as ConocoPhillips, Chesapeake Energy, and EOG Resources. IPAA is best known as the creator of the front group ...

The law, long considered crown jewel legislation by the Koch front group AFP, gives legislative bodies full veto authority over regulations proposed by executive ... For the latter, Koch owns Koch Oil Sands Operating, which has a drilling interest in both the Gemini and Muskwa tar sands fields in Alberta.

The law, long considered crown jewel legislation by the Koch front group AFP, gives legislative bodies full veto authority over regulations proposed by executive ... For the latter, Koch owns Koch Oil Sands Operating, which has a drilling interest in both the Gemini and Muskwa tar sands fields in Alberta.

Last year, he became chairman of the board of Rosneft, Russia's state-backed oil company, supplementing his generous government retirement ... represented the interests of the Kazakh regime, channeling his payment through a Kazakh foundation that an Austrian court found to be a front group for the ...

I extend the definition to front groups secretly funded by organizations that wish to promote their interests. The intent is to create an ... major petroleum client. I once tripped up someone working for a front group, who insisted that I had no basis for the statement, when he emailed me from his PR firm account.

This isn't the first time we've seen these nonacademic industry front groups misinterpret data. We saw it last month when Texans for Natural Gas incorrectly assessed EPA data to draw erroneous conclusions about methane emissions declining in Texas. But again, when you read the fine print of EPA's ...

And the question is, are the oil companies going to stick the public with the bill after they've reaped untold profits and lied to us?” In December, Santa .... But externally, they denied the risk, marketing and selling fossil fuels while sowing doubt about climate change through front groups. The suits compare ...

Under the guise of various front groups aimed at appealing to attractive and tall young women, Jeong's lieutenants have continued to groom young women to believe Jeong is God personified. .... “That [the crucifixion of Jesus] is why Hitler killed 6 million Jews in the gas chamber and rung oil from them.