"Drill Here, Drill Now" Hits the Jackpot!

onSep 25, 2008 @ 14:21 PDT

Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson upped his ante in former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s unregulated issues-advocacy group in August, with a $750,000 donation that helped propel the organization to the No. 2 fundraising spot among so-called 527 political groups this election season.

Amid new signs that its signature “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign was reaping success on Capitol Hill, American Solutions for Winning the Future reported a total of $1.9 million in contributions for August, its second-best fundraising month.

(Its best was a $2.1 million showing in June, when the group rolled out its campaign to end the 27-year-old U.S. moratorium on offshore drilling, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain took up the cause.)

By Ross Gelbspan

uk/Nigel Farage Has Accepted £2 Million Since Becoming an MP

BySam Bright

onMay 6, 2026 @ 12:32 PDT

The Green Party has accused Farage of being “focused on personal gain and public division”.

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Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell: Carbon Capture ‘Doesn’t Work’

ByMitch Anderson

onMay 6, 2026 @ 07:25 PDT

Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?

us/Event | How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office

ByDeSmog

onMay 5, 2026 @ 11:07 PDT

Join a May 7 discussion on how the Trump administration’s open embrace of climate denial in Washington is enabling more denial at the highest levels of government in the U.S. and beyond.