"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.)

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us/Who’s the Fossil Fuel-Backed “Philosopher” Shaping Trump’s Megabill Clean Energy Cuts?

BySharon Kelly

onJul 1, 2025 @ 16:47 PDT

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis took to Senate floor to decry lobbyists like Alex Epstein pushing huge energy moves “without a clue about what they are potentially doing to our grid.”

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Pathways Alliance Sponsored Science Fairs for Canadian Children

ByTaylor Noakes

onJun 30, 2025 @ 12:09 PDT

Paying for social license is 'no substitute for solving environmental problems,' say critics.

uk/Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP

ByEllen Ormesher

onJun 26, 2025 @ 12:27 PDT

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation

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