Charles Drevna

Charles Drevna Credentials Background Charles T. Drevna was the President and CEO of Fueling U.S. Forward, a pro fossil fuel organization funded by Koch Industries and other oil and gas companies that launched in August, 2016 and shut down in September 2017. Drevna described the group as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit business association, allowing for both […]

Lamar Smith

Lamar S. Smith Credentials Background Representative Lamar S. Smith is a U.S. Republican Representative for Texas’s 21st congressional district and Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology. Smith announced he would be retiring from the House after his term ends at the Science, Space and Technology Committee.1“Biography,” Congressman Lamar Smith. Archived October […]

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Background The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) is a national trade association representing 98 percent of oil refining capacity in the United States. The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers describes itself as the “trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other […]

Ethical Oil Institute

Ethical Oil Institute Background The Ethical Oil Institute has been described as a nonprofit “astroturf” organization that started as a joint project of Ezra Levant and Alykhan Velshi. The Ethical Oil Institute was officially incorporated on March 9, 2011, and […]

Knowledge and Progress Fund

Knowledge and Progress Fund Background The Knowledge and Progress Fund (KPF) is one of several Koch Family Foundations, and is controlled by Koch company director Richard Fink (President). Charles Koch, his wife Elizabeth B Koch, and his son, Charles (Chase) Koch, are all on the KPF board. The Koch brothers are co-owners of Koch Industries, […]

America Rising LLC | PAC | America Rising Squared | Definers Public Affairs

America Rising America Rising and Affiliated Entities Background on America Rising America Rising LLC and America Rising PAC were founded in Spring of 2013, in response to perceived Democratic superiority in the field of opposition research. The related but distinct corporate entities are both commonly referred to as America Rising, and the entities are often confused. Most […]

Clexit

Climate Exit (Clexit) Background Climate Exit (Clexit) is a climate science denial group formed shortly after the UK’s decision to leave the EU. According to Clexit’s founding statement (PDF), “The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and cannot control the climate.” As DeSmog2Kyla Mandel. “Mapped: The Cosy […]

Independent Committee on Geoethics

Independent Committee on Geoethics (ICG) Background The Independent Committee on Geoethics (ICG) was founded on October 17, 2015, at the “International Conference on Geoethics” in Prague, according to its website. Shortly after its creation, the Independent Committee on Geoethics co-sponsored the “Paris Climate Challenge,” an event hosted […]

Locke Institute

Locke Institute Background The Locke Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The Institute endorses the propositions of John Locke, the Enlightenment philosopher, that individuals are possessed of inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property; and that it is the principal function of the state to uphold these rights, since free individuals […]

Kathleen Hartnett White

Kathleen Hartnett White Credentials Background Kathleen Hartnett White is the distinguished senior fellow-in-residence and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). She is also a senior fellow of TPPF’s “Life:Powered” project, which promotes fossil fuel use. Hartnett White previously worked as Chairman and Commissioner of […]