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Caleb Rossiter

Caleb Rossiter Credentials Background Dr. Caleb Rossiter is a professor and consultant with a background in international policy. Between 1984 and 1990 he served as deputy director for foreign policy of the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus of the U.S. Congress. In 1992, he founded Demilitarization for Democracy, a think tank focused on arms […]

Grow America’s Infrastructure Now (GAIN)

Grow America’s Infrastructure Now (GAIN) Background Grow America’s Infrastructure Now (GAIN) describes itself as a “diverse coalition of businesses, trade associations, and labor groups that share a vested interest in creating jobs and strengthening our nation’s economy through infrastructure development.” Grow America’s Infrastructure Now launched in […]

Lord Bernard Donoughue

Image credit: House of Lords/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Lord Bernard Donoughue Credentials Background Lord Donoughue is a British politician who sits in the House of Lords for the Labour Party. He has been on the board of the climate science denial campaign group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) since its inception in 2009. […]

International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Background The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a Swiss-based trade association founded in June 1999 “to address climate challenges with market solutions.” The organization’s membership roster includes some of the world’s largest fossil fuel and energy distribution companies. IETA’s stated objective is […]

David Bernhardt

David Bernhardt Credentials Background David L. Bernhardt was confirmed as the secretary for the U.S. Interior Department on April 11, 2019. He formerly served as the Acting Secretary of the Interior of the United States. Bernhardt is a lobbyist and attorney for the oil and gas industry via the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber […]

Mark P. Mills

Mark P. Mills Credentials Background Mark Mills has been President of Digital Power Group since 2001 and operates the website Tech-Pundit.com. He is a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a Strategic Partner at Cottonwood Venture Partners, an investment […]

National Association of Scholars

National Association of Scholars (NAS) Background The National Association of Scholars (NAS) was founded in 1987 “to confront the rise of campus political correctness.” The group describes itself as an “independent membership association of academics and others working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s […]

Clear Energy Alliance

Clear Energy Alliance Background Clear Energy Alliance (CEA) describes itself as “the latest venture of Mark Mathis who has spent most of his career challenging widely accepted ideas that are simply untrue.”  Before starting CEA, Mathis founded another pro-fossil-fuel group called Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). While heading CARE, Mathis testified before Congress “on the dangers of […]

Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT)

Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) Background The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that describes itself as “dedicated to promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency in government and civic arenas.” FACT was formed in 2014 as a conservative equivalent to left-of-center watchdog groups such as as […]

Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy Credentials Background  Jennifer J. Marohasy is Senior Fellow at the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs, “with responsibilities for Climate Change in the Research Program”, according to the group’s website. Marohasy obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Queensland in 1983. After graduating she was employed as a field biologist at the Allen Fletcher […]