A look at the tax-exempt groups working to block government efforts regarding climate change
A look at the tax exempt groups working to block government efforts regarding #climatechange
A two-decade crusade by conservative charities fueled Trumps exit from Paris climate accord
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. September 5
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For nearly two decades, {Myron Ebell} has led the Cooler Heads Coalition, an umbrella group of tax-exempt public charities and other nonprofit organizations in the vanguard of efforts to cast doubt on the gravity of climate change and thwart government efforts to address it.
Coalition members have called climate science a hoax and denounced environmentalists as global-warming alarmists. They have written letters, blasted out emails, pressured lawmakers, sponsored seminars, appeared on television and made a documentary movie.
It was all part of a wave that crested with Trumps rejection on June 1 of the Paris agreement, a landmark accord by nearly 200 countries in 2015 to limit greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
He made the decision. We helped create the circumstances, Ebell told The Washington Post. When you are persistent, good things can happen. ... The story behind the coalition illuminates the influential, little-known role that tax-exempt
public charities play in modern campaigns to sway lawmakers and shape policy in the nations capital, while claiming to be nonpartisan educational organizations.
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Robert OHarrow Jr. is a reporter on the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He writes about law enforcement, national security, federal contracting and the financial world.
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