New research from the Capital Research Center, an American-based think tank, reveals environmental groups poured a record $2.4 billion in 2019 to further left-wing climate change ideology..“This stunning figure contrasts with the environmentalist movement’s self-image as David vs. Goliath: impoverished, idealistic eco-activists outgunned by powerful interests in the “fossil fuel” industry,” said its Senior Investigative Researcher, Hayden Ludwig..He said Liberals have long claimed the Right outguns environmentalists despite holding the country’s best-funded special interests..However, a 2018 misleading study measuring the income of broadly right-leaning groups focused on a host of issues, including welfare, telecom regulation, agricultural policy, etc., to produce the claim conservatives spend $1 billion per year to stop action on climate change, amounting to a 10 to 1 disparity with environmental groups..CRC examined the finances of 166 left-leaning policy, activist, litigation, and research organizations along with any associated political action committees (PACs) that primarily focus on climate change or environmental regulation. .The think-tank captured their revenues, expenditures, and the amounts of grants they paid out in 2019 using publicly available Form 990 findings..Their inquiry found these organizations raked in $2.67 billion from donors, nearly all of whom remain undisclosed. These organizations, including special interests, spent a whopping $2.43 billion paying staffers, attorneys, activists, professional fundraisers, and researchers and lobbying for environmental regulations. .“In the case of 501(c)(4) groups and PACs, they also helped elect Democrats and oppose Republicans in the 2019-2020 election cycle,” said Ludwig, as mostly left-leaning nonprofits received $435 million in grants..“These figures don’t include lobbying by private firms for renewables subsidies, left-wing groups with a broader focus than climate change or the environment or eco-Right groups, self-identified “conservative” organizations that support carbon taxes and other global warming policies.” .He warned had the finances from these groups also been included, the final numbers might be double or even three times current figures..“The tax status of these organizations sheds light on the distribution of funds within the environmental movement,” said Ludwig. .With 111 of 166 groups IRS-designated 501(c)(3) public charities, donations provided to them are tax-deductible. The 501(c)(3) nonprofits account for the overwhelming majority of finances CRC traced..CRC traced 83.95 per cent or $2.24 billion of the $2.7 billion in total revenues uncovered, 83.1% of $2.02 billion of the $2.4 billion in total expenditures found, and 78.5% or $342 million of the $435 million in grants paid..Of the 166 groups, 46 are 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofits, which are permitted to spend significantly more on lobbying than their 501(c)(3) counterparts. .The top 20 biggest spenders also number among the loudest voices pushing environmental regulations:.World Wildlife Fund: $236 millionEnvironmental Defense Fund: $188.6 millionNatural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): $173 millionSierra Club: $150 millionWorld Resources Institute: $120.8 millionNational Audubon Society: $118 millionAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): $109.9 millionSierra Club Foundation: $93.9 millionNational Wildlife Federation: $89.7 millionEarthJustice: $78 millionLeague of Conservation Voters: $66.5 millionNextGen Climate Action Committee: $56.8 millionNextGen Climate Action: $54 millionPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): $53.5 millionRocky Mountain Institute: $45 millionResources Legacy Fund: $42.3 millionUnion of Concerned Scientists: $40.7 millionGreenpeace: $37.7 millionOceana: $36 millionLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $34.8 million.“These are the titans of “Green” Activism Inc. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars to pass the socialist Green New Deal and promote radical global warming legislation that promises to jack up household electricity prices and enable the Left’s war on science,” said Ludwig..Dhaliwal is the Western Standard’s reporter based in Edmonton.
New research from the Capital Research Center, an American-based think tank, reveals environmental groups poured a record $2.4 billion in 2019 to further left-wing climate change ideology..“This stunning figure contrasts with the environmentalist movement’s self-image as David vs. Goliath: impoverished, idealistic eco-activists outgunned by powerful interests in the “fossil fuel” industry,” said its Senior Investigative Researcher, Hayden Ludwig..He said Liberals have long claimed the Right outguns environmentalists despite holding the country’s best-funded special interests..However, a 2018 misleading study measuring the income of broadly right-leaning groups focused on a host of issues, including welfare, telecom regulation, agricultural policy, etc., to produce the claim conservatives spend $1 billion per year to stop action on climate change, amounting to a 10 to 1 disparity with environmental groups..CRC examined the finances of 166 left-leaning policy, activist, litigation, and research organizations along with any associated political action committees (PACs) that primarily focus on climate change or environmental regulation. .The think-tank captured their revenues, expenditures, and the amounts of grants they paid out in 2019 using publicly available Form 990 findings..Their inquiry found these organizations raked in $2.67 billion from donors, nearly all of whom remain undisclosed. These organizations, including special interests, spent a whopping $2.43 billion paying staffers, attorneys, activists, professional fundraisers, and researchers and lobbying for environmental regulations. .“In the case of 501(c)(4) groups and PACs, they also helped elect Democrats and oppose Republicans in the 2019-2020 election cycle,” said Ludwig, as mostly left-leaning nonprofits received $435 million in grants..“These figures don’t include lobbying by private firms for renewables subsidies, left-wing groups with a broader focus than climate change or the environment or eco-Right groups, self-identified “conservative” organizations that support carbon taxes and other global warming policies.” .He warned had the finances from these groups also been included, the final numbers might be double or even three times current figures..“The tax status of these organizations sheds light on the distribution of funds within the environmental movement,” said Ludwig. .With 111 of 166 groups IRS-designated 501(c)(3) public charities, donations provided to them are tax-deductible. The 501(c)(3) nonprofits account for the overwhelming majority of finances CRC traced..CRC traced 83.95 per cent or $2.24 billion of the $2.7 billion in total revenues uncovered, 83.1% of $2.02 billion of the $2.4 billion in total expenditures found, and 78.5% or $342 million of the $435 million in grants paid..Of the 166 groups, 46 are 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofits, which are permitted to spend significantly more on lobbying than their 501(c)(3) counterparts. .The top 20 biggest spenders also number among the loudest voices pushing environmental regulations:.World Wildlife Fund: $236 millionEnvironmental Defense Fund: $188.6 millionNatural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): $173 millionSierra Club: $150 millionWorld Resources Institute: $120.8 millionNational Audubon Society: $118 millionAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): $109.9 millionSierra Club Foundation: $93.9 millionNational Wildlife Federation: $89.7 millionEarthJustice: $78 millionLeague of Conservation Voters: $66.5 millionNextGen Climate Action Committee: $56.8 millionNextGen Climate Action: $54 millionPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): $53.5 millionRocky Mountain Institute: $45 millionResources Legacy Fund: $42.3 millionUnion of Concerned Scientists: $40.7 millionGreenpeace: $37.7 millionOceana: $36 millionLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $34.8 million.“These are the titans of “Green” Activism Inc. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars to pass the socialist Green New Deal and promote radical global warming legislation that promises to jack up household electricity prices and enable the Left’s war on science,” said Ludwig..Dhaliwal is the Western Standard’s reporter based in Edmonton.
