CfA's July 10, 2020 Newsletter

Our Latest Work:

• Google Air: TTP Series Tracks Google’s Lobbying and Environmental Impact Through Its Private Fleet of Planes: This week, CfA and TTP released a report outlining how Google’s parent company, Alphabet, uses a sprawling fleet of private aircraft to traverse the globe, despite the company’s public pledges to fight climate change. (Press Release, Report, Interactive Flight Map)
  • This is the first in a series of reports from TTP examining the impact of Google's use of private planes to expand their influence. Stay tuned.

What We're Reading:

• Despite transparency and privacy concerns, anti-abortion group continues to receive taxpayer dollars: "Fiscal watchdogs and reproductive rights advocates in Harrisburg are again sounding the alarm over an anti-abortion organization that is set to receive $3.6 million in state funding in the 2020-2021 stopgap budget." (Pennsylvania Capital Star, July 10)
• Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Block Release of Financial Records: "Two rulings clear the way for prosecutors in New York to seek President Trump’s financial records, but the justices stopped Congress for now." (NYTimes, July 9)
• Exclusive: Facebook used extensively to spread neo-Nazi music: "An Al Jazeera investigation identified some 120 pages belonging to bands with openly white supremacist and racist views." (Al Jazeera, July 10)

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