"Drill Here, Drill Now" Hits the Jackpot!

onSep 25, 2008 @ 14:21 PDT

Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson upped his ante in former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s unregulated issues-advocacy group in August, with a $750,000 donation that helped propel the organization to the No. 2 fundraising spot among so-called 527 political groups this election season.

Amid new signs that its signature “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign was reaping success on Capitol Hill, American Solutions for Winning the Future reported a total of $1.9 million in contributions for August, its second-best fundraising month.

(Its best was a $2.1 million showing in June, when the group rolled out its campaign to end the 27-year-old U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain took up the cause.)

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Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States

ByJoe Fassler

onDec 12, 2025 @ 12:55 PST

As Trump pushes to slash the EPA’s budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.

us/These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.

ByJoe Fassler

onDec 12, 2025 @ 02:00 PST

Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?

Series: Tech vs. Climate

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The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

ByGeoff Dembicki

onDec 11, 2025 @ 08:50 PST

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

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