Clexit
Climate Exit (Clexit) Background Climate Exit (Clexit) is a climate science denial group formed shortly after the UK’s decision to leave the EU. According to Clexit’s founding statement (PDF), “The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and cannot control the climate.” As DeSmog2Kyla Mandel. “Mapped: The Cosy […]
Independent Committee on Geoethics
Independent Committee on Geoethics (ICG) Background The Independent Committee on Geoethics (ICG) was founded on October 17, 2015, at the “International Conference on Geoethics” in Prague, according to its website. Shortly after its creation, the Independent Committee on Geoethics co-sponsored the “Paris Climate Challenge,” an event hosted […]
Locke Institute
Locke Institute Background The Locke Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The Institute endorses the propositions of John Locke, the Enlightenment philosopher, that individuals are possessed of inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property; and that it is the principal function of the state to uphold these rights, since free individuals […]
Kathleen Hartnett White
Kathleen Hartnett White Credentials Background Kathleen Hartnett White is the distinguished senior fellow-in-residence and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). She is also a senior fellow of TPPF’s “Life:Powered” project, which promotes fossil fuel use. Hartnett White previously worked as Chairman and Commissioner of […]
Lawson Bader
Lawson R. Bader Credentials Background Lawson Bader is the President and CEO of both DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund, and the former president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute where he still serves as a member of the Board of Directors. 2“Lawson […]
Kevin Cramer
Kevin Cramer Credentials According to his biographical profile at the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin Cramer has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, a Master’s degree in Management from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Leadership, honoris causa, by the […]
Jeffrey R. Holmstead
Jeffrey R. Holmstead Credentials Background Jeffrey R. Holmstead is a partner and attorney for Bracewell LLP in Washington, DC (formerly Bracewell & Giuliani*) where he has headed their “Environmental Strategies Group (ESG)” since 2006. The ESG reportedly works to “advise and defend companies and business groups confronting major environmental and energy-development challenges, both domestically and […]
American Energy Alliance (AEA)
American Energy Alliance (AEA) Background The American Energy Alliance is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit organization founded in May, 2008. It is the advocacy arm of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Energy Research (IER). According to its website, the AEA “engages in grassroots public policy advocacy and debate concerning energy and environmental policies.”1“About the AEA,” American Energy Alliance. Archived […]
Lexington Institute
Lexington Institute Background The Lexington Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Arlington, Virginia, focused on national security education reform, tax reform, immigration and federal policy concerning science and technology. The Lexington Institute was founded in 1998 by Mac Carey. The Institute has received […]
Western Fuels Association
Western Fuels Association (WFA) Background Western Fuels Association (WFA) is a not-for-profit cooperative that “supplies coal and transportation services to consumer-owned electric utilities throughout the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions.” The group was founded in 1973 with the purpose of providing coal and other services to consumer-owned utilities. In 2013, the group was […]
