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Thursday, June 22nd, 2023

The Koch-Funded Group Undermining US Clean Energy Goals

Author:     OLIVER MILMAN and DHARNA NOOR
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     JUNE 13, 2023
 Link: The Koch-Funded Group Undermining US Clean Energy Goals
Stephan:  

The carbon oligarchs don’t want to see an end to the fossil fuel age because it will damage their profits, and they are pouring millions of dollars into renting the MAGAt Republican Congressional whores who work for them. Personally, given the irrefutable evidence about the role of carbon energy in causing climate change, I think this should be seen as a crime against humanity, and prosecuted as such, both the oligarchs and the Congress members. But so great is the corruption of the American government that I doubt anyone will be held accountable.

Charles Koch’s foundation has donated nearly $5 million to the TPPF.Credit: David Zalubowski/AP

In the scramble before the recent end of Texas’s legislative session, a must-pass bill was amended to impose new costs upon renewable energy. This came amid a barrage of anti-solar and wind power measures pushed forward by Republicans to reshape a state that has become the US’s powerhouse of clean energy.

But the conservative lawmakers had help.

Sections of the bill that impose new burdens upon clean energy providers were directly crafted and edited by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a conservative group that has led the backlash to renewables and to make what it calls “the moral case for fossil fuels,” according to a copy of the draft language seen by the Guardian.

Several dozen edits were made to the bill’s amendments by Brent Bennett, a TPPF policy staffer, the document shows, and Texas lawmakers subsequently passed parts of this language along with the key TPPF desires—to impose new transmission costs on renewables and require them to source fossil fuel “backup” power when the sun isn’t shining […]

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