This Week at CMD

Today is Earth Day. As we celebrate our planet, let's also recognize the bad actors who are doing just the opposite: dishonestly promoting oil, gas, and coal to benefit themselves and their donors to the detriment of our environment.

Plus, a big quarterly campaign finance filing deadline just happened, and CMD has some scoops about conservative big money in the 2022 elections you're going to want to read.

Here's the latest!

Climate Coverage

Republicans, Climate Deniers, and Ranchers Gather on Earth Day to Stop 30×30

Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) hosts the "Stop 30x30 Summit" in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 22. President Biden's 30x30 plan has a goal of protecting at least 30% of America's lands and waters by 2030.

The Dirty Dozen: The Biggest Nonprofit Funders of Climate Denial

A CMD report exposes the U.S.-based nonprofits most responsible for poisoning the discourse on climate change.

Speaking of denial, the Koch-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation is "celebrating" Earth Day by spreading lies about the benefits of fossil fuels!

ALEC Launches Attack on Banks That Divest From Fossil Fuels

As part of its research into those fighting to undermine efforts to protect our climate, CMD is tracking and reporting on a model bill approved unanimously by ALEC's energy task force that would have states blacklist banks that divest from fossil fuels.

Since CMD broke the story in December, versions of the bill have been introduced in Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming. West Virginia and Kentucky now have these laws on the books.

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More News from CMD

Dr. Oz’s Fortunes Boosted by Koch Investment

When GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz’s Sharecare startup went public last year in a deal valued at $3.9 billion, Koch Industries became its largest institutional investor.

Megadonor Uihlein’s PAC Spends $5 Million in First Quarter

The quarterly filing released Friday for Restoration PAC, the political action committee almost exclusively funded by GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein, shows it brought in $2.6 million and disbursed close to $5 million in the first three months of 2022.

RAGA Raises $4.8 Million in First Quarter of 2022

The Republican Attorneys General Association's haul of $4.8 million is the most it has raised in the first quarter of a major election year, up from $4.4 million in 2020.

CMD's work was recently cited or republished by the following news outlets:

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