It’s no coincidence that the backlash against climate protest looks the same from country to country. Not only is industry sharing tactics across borders, but also a global network of more than 500 think tanks have been swapping strategies and rhetoric for decades.
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How Canada Uses ‘Redwashing’ To Crack Down On Indigenous Pipeline Protesters
In an attempt to neutralize pipeline protests from First Nations groups, Canadian industry organizations and think tanks have devised a strategy to court First Nations pipeline allies, a tactic known as “redwashing.”
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S10, Ep1 | The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
The more successful climate protestors are, the more effort industry is putting in to criminalize them.
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S1, Ep5 | Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
Shifting culture to enable the success of climate denial.
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Roots of ESG, Anti-“Woke” Capital, and the New Battle in Climate Obstructionism
How right-wing groups organized and mobilized state treasurers in the anti-ESG battle.
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False Friends of the Court, with Senator Whitehouse
Why every rightwing think tank has an amicus program
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The New Denial Is Delay
How an attempt to revolutionize the environmental movement became a push to delay action on climate change.
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Another Line 3 Battleground—Free Speech
How the fossil fuel industry is undermining free speech.
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The Reason Covid-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation
For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys, the chemical industry, pharma, you name it. But one thing that became incredibly clear when we began digging into PR firms and specific publicists was that this version of history is not […]
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Letter from fossil fuel industry groups to members of the American Legislative Exchange Council proposing critical infrastructure law
Letter from American Chemistry Council, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Gas Association, Edison Electric Institute, Energy Policy Network, Marathon Petroleum Corporation to state legislator members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) asking for their support of industry-drafted sample legislation aiming to protect “critical infrastructure.”