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Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network

| Importance: 9/10

Koch Family Foundations began systematic funding of climate science denial and clean energy opposition, eventually spending $145,555,197 directly financing 90 groups attacking climate science and policy solutions from 1997-2018. The Koch network funneled $127,006,756 to 92 organizations from …

Koch Industries Charles Koch David Koch Koch Family Foundations Cato Institute +4 more climate-denial regulatory-capture fossil-fuels think-tank-funding political-influence
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Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding

| Importance: 8/10

In 1985, the Bradley Foundation underwent a dramatic transformation when Rockwell International Corporation acquired the Allen-Bradley Company, expanding the foundation’s assets from $14 million to over $290 million - a more than 20-fold increase. This windfall enabled systematic, coordinated …

Michael S. Joyce Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Heritage Foundation Federalist Society American Enterprise Institute +2 more foundation-funding think-tank-infrastructure conservative-movement coordinated-funding powell-memo-implementation
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