Ayn Rand Institute

Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) Background The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with EIN 22-2570926 headquartered in Irvine, California. According to ARI’s website, “To advance Objectivism, ARI focuses on areas that have a long-term multiplying impact on the direction of our culture — notably, education and policy debates.”1“About the Ayn Rand Institute,” Ayn […]

European Institute for Climate and Energy

European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) Background Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie (EIKE), the European Institute for Climate and Energy in English, is a German climate change denial organization founded in February 2007 in Hanover. The group […]

60 Plus Association

60 Plus Association Background The 60 Plus Association was founded in 1992 as a “non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, less taxes approach to seniors issues.”  The 60 Plus Association describes itself as “the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).”1“About 60 Plus,” 60 Plus Association. Archived October 13, 2015. […]

Instituto Liberdade

Instituto Liberdade (Brazil) Background Instituto Liberdade (Liberty Institute) is an independent Brazilian non-profit think tank based in Tecnopuc, Porto Alegre, in Southern Brazil. Instituto Liberdade began as “Instituto Liberal do Rio Grande do Sul” in 1986 and was renamed Instituto Liberdade on May 11, 2004. […]

Illinois Coal Association

Illinois Coal Association Background The Illinois Coal Association (ICA) is a coal lobbying group based in Springfield and founded in 1878. According to their website, the group “represents the coal industry in the state in governmental affairs, in public relations and in related matters. Through the Association, companies producing coal in Illinois deal with issues […]

Science and Environmental Policy Project

Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Background The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 1990 by climate change skeptic S. Fred Singer, Gerhard Stohrer, and Fred Singer’s wife Candace Crandall. SEPP has questioned concerns about ozone depletion […]

Americans for Tax Reform

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) Background Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) “taxpayer advocacy group”  founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist at the request of Ronald Reagan. According to their website, “Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle.”1“About,” Americans for Tax Reform. Archived October 8, 2016. […]

IceAgeNow

IceAgeNow Background IceAgeNow is a website originally located at iceagenow.com and later at iceagenow.info. It describes itself as “a Web site dedicated to showing that our climate is driven by natural cycles, not by humans” that fears that “one of those cycles – the Milankovitch Cycle – is leading us into the next ice age right now” and […]

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) Background The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) is a 501(c)(3) organization that describes itself as “an independent, non-profit educational and research organization that actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.” The group was […]

Free to Choose Network

Free to Choose Network Background The Free to Choose Network is a a non-profit foundation that arose from Milton Friedman‘s 1980s PBS series, “Free To Choose” and the resulting book. The group’s founder, Bob Chitester, was the PBS program’s executive producer and sought to “expose a world hindered by big government to Friedman’s concepts of limited […]