Contaminated Inquiry
How a University of Texas Fracking Study Led by a Gas Industry Insider Spun the Facts and Misled the Public
Fracking Industry’s Answer to “Gasland”: Devised by Astroturf Lobbying Group and Political Ad Agency
Truthland, a 35-minute compilation of interviews with fracking proponents, is being promoted by the oil and natural gas industry’s PR arm, Energy In Depth, as an answer to the 2010
The UB Shale Play: Distorting the Facts about Fracking
A Review of the University at Buffalo Shale Resources and Society Institute’s Report on “Environmental Impacts During Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling”
Regulator, Captured: The Stephanie Timmermeyer Story
Timmermeyer’s career blurs the line between public service and corporate subservience; she has moved through the revolving door into government and back out again, working as a corporate attorney, then as secretary of West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection, and now as a Chesapeake lobbyist, but never forgetting who she really worked for (hint: not the public). As a regulator, she went soft on industry; as a corporate lobbyist, she leverages her regulatory experience to ease the way for Chesapeake. She is hardly the company’s sole investment in regulatory capture, but her career is a case study in the revolving door and all the skewed incentives that come with it.
ALEC’s Corporate Networks
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a “free-market association of state lawmakers” that also resembles a conservative lobbying group, is facing intense scrutiny for its role in helping corporations influence
Tax Day 2012
Last year on Tax Day we shared some figures from the recently published Big Bank Tax Drain report on the LittleSis blog, showing that six of the largest financial institutions
Rush Limbaugh and his advertisers
“The Rush Limbaugh Show” is the most-listened-to talk radio program in the U.S., according to Arbitron, a consumer research company. The show is syndicated by media giant Clear Channel Communications,
Super PAC Watch: Romney Mystery Donors Include Prominent Predatory Loan Execs
Among the recent large donors to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC Restore Our Future are still more corporations “not easily connected to a specific executive or even business,” Nicholas Confessore writes