SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the attack on state climate policy?
HOSTILE CLIMATE The Center for Climate Strategies wants to help states cut global warming pollution. A North Carolina think tank funded by energy interests wants to stop them. By Sue Sturgisread more
View ArticleFollow-up: Exposing the Locke Foundation's war on climate policy
Our report yesterday on the North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation and its efforts to derail state climate policy is generating a lot of attention -- and ruffling a few feathers.read more
View ArticleJohn Locke Foundation comments on Institute investigation
The story I wrote about the fossil-fueled attack against the Center for Climate Strategies by the North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation has apparently touched a nerve with Locke's Executive...
View ArticleThe real issues behind Locke's crusade against climate policy
The Institute's special report released this week -- exposing the NC-based John Locke Foundation's crusade against state climate policy, and the corporate interests backing them -- continues to rage...
View ArticleWill carbon cap-and-trade hurt the poor?
We recently brought you the story of how the John Locke Foundation of North Carolina has been leading the attack on states' efforts to regulate greenhouse gases while failing to disclose that it's...
View ArticleClimate craziness descends on Kentucky
We recently reported on the effort led by the fossil-fuel-funded John Locke Foundation and Heartland Institute to scuttle North Carolina's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas pollution.read more
View Article"The Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate...
...and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming."read more
View ArticleIgnored debate invitation miffs global warming naysayers
The global warming skeptics are miffed because those of us whose work on climate matters is informed by science rather than the interests of fossil fuel paymasters aren't interested in putting on a...
View ArticleThe N.Y. Times' early Valentine to Duke Energy CEO
Last Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran a gushing profile of Jim Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy in Charlotte, N.C.read more
View ArticleWall Street's strategy for opposing financial reform (video)
Facing South's report last week on a protest last week by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity -- which targeted the Center for Responsible lending, a champion of financial reform, as a...
View ArticleOne year after Citizens United
NOTE: Welcome to those of you who ran across this story through Atlantic Wire, National Journal and read more
View ArticleNorth Carolina for Sale? New Yorker profile thrusts Art Pope into national...
A new profile of North Carolina power broker Art Pope by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker brings national attention to the conservative benefactor's growing advocacy and electoral empire.read more
View ArticleSPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate...
Dirty-energy interests, wealthy conservatives and the think tanks they fund have joined forces to target global-warming researchers using the Freedom of Information Act -- and this week they're set for...
View ArticleSpecial Investigation: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate...
FALL 2011 | A conservative think tank has filed a controversial Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the University of Virginia seeking emails and other documents related to former professor...
View ArticleClimate-science deniers join forces against NC renewable-energy program
The American Legislative Exchange Council, American Tradition Institute and the John Locke Foundation are preaching against wind energy and renewable mandates in presentations that play fast and loose...
View ArticleTop 5 of 2011 - #1: How to Expose a Big Money Power Broker
In our final look at Facing South's top stories of 2011, a look at how we helped push North Carolina's secretive but influential conservative benefactor Art Pope into the national spotlight -- offering...
View ArticleArt Pope turns up in climate disinformation exposé
Internal documents obtained from the Heartland Institute, a leading player in the climate disinformation campaign, show that the group is counting on continuing support from the North Carolina...
View ArticleLeading blogger for conservative NC think tank resigns over offensive Obama...
A leading writer for the John Locke Foundation, a conservative NC think tank backed by Art Pope, resigns after posting an image of President Obama showing him in chains next to a bucket of Kentucky...
View ArticleNC anti-wind power crusader behind plot to subvert renewable energy industry
John Droz of the American Tradition Institute, a fossil fuel-funded advocacy group that works to discredit climate science, was the mastermind of an effort that called for setting up "dummy businesses"...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Mapping influence in North Carolina
Who are the biggest groups vying for influence in North Carolina? How are conservative and progressive groups different? An Institute report offers a glimpse into some of the biggest groups and...
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