{"id":39184,"date":"2013-02-23T19:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=34878"},"modified":"2013-02-23T19:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:31:30","slug":"secret-group-pumping-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-into-anti-wind-anti-solar-anti-climate-action-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/secret-group-pumping-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-into-anti-wind-anti-solar-anti-climate-action-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Group Pumping Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into Anti-Wind, Anti-Solar, & Anti-Climate Action Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can’t beat a competitor on simple merits, logic, science, or economics, simply pump hundreds of millions of dollars into disinformation campaigns. Heck, if deceiving the public and corrupting legislators and government officials isn’t a good and honorable practice, what is?<\/p>\n

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What am I talking about? Today, I’m referring to\u00a0Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on anti–climate action, anti-solar energy, and anti–wind energy campaigns.<\/p>\n

“Promising anonymity to their conservative billionaire patrons,\u00a0the trusts between them channelled nearly $120m to contrarian thinktanks and activists<\/a>, wrecking the chances of getting Congress to act on\u00a0climate change,” Suzanne Goldenberg of the <\/a>Guardian<\/em> writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Now the Guardian<\/em> can reveal the latest project of the secretive funding network: a campaign to stop state governments moving towards\u00a0renewable energy.”<\/p>\n

With congressional climate action essentially stalled for the next couple years at least (due to highly ideological and anti-science Republicans in the House and Senate), the billionaires (some of which most definitely are in the coal and oil industries) have turned to what seems to be their next biggest threat — wind<\/a> and solar power<\/a> growth through other means (e.g. Renewable Energy Standards, feed-in tariffs, solar and wind tax incentives, etc.).<\/p>\n

Wind and solar are highly supported by the general public (and, thus, by many of their local, state, and federal representatives), so attacking them outright is a bit difficult. But, as they say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
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