Heritage Foundation-Xxxx Sample Clauses

Heritage Foundation-Xxxx. Gop Relationship The policy stream will start with an analysis of the relationship between Heritage Foundation and Xxxx Industries. The Heritage Foundation is part of the State Policy Network, an umbrella organization for various conservative think tanks (Xxxxx et al., 2016). The funding of this organization is done by Xxxx Industries. the fossil-fuel enterprise has considerable stakes in deregulating environmental policies (Brulle, 2014). Xxxxx et al., (2016) argued that they have been ardently funding climate sceptic think tanks since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. According to reports by Greenpeace, Xxxx Industries donated via the Xxxx Family Foundation, approximately 6 million dollars to the Heritage Foundation between 1998 (Kyoto Protocol) and 2017 (Greenpeace, 2017 ). The same report, which based its findings on IRS forms submitted by the Xxxx Family Foundation, found that the Xxxx Family Foundation donated close to 130 million dollars to climate sceptic groups in the same period. With the biggest donations going to the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Greenpeace, 2017: Brulle, 2014). Xxxx Industries also made considerable donations to Republican policymakers (Xxxxxx, 2019). Xxxxxxx Xxxx is a member of the Republican Party who frequently organizes fundraising events for the GOP (Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, 2017: Xxxxxx, 2019 Xxxxxx, 2017). Xxxxxxx Xxxx mentioned in an interview with ABC News that he raised over 400 million dollars for the GOP prior to the presidential elections of 2016 (BBC, 2018: Xxxxxx, 2019: Malin & Xxxx, 2016). Furthermore, the Xxxx Family Foundation made considerable campaign donations to some of the Republican Representative in the Committee of SS&T (Armiak, 2018). For instance, Republican Representative Xxxxxxx (see political stream) received 10,000 dollars from Koch (Xxxxxx, 2018: Centre for Responsive Politics, 2018: S. Rep. No. 2443-2445, 2018). When the Obama administration created the Climate Action Plan, Xxxx Industries went on the assault calling the administrations plan “the greatest assault on American freedom and prosperity in our lifetimes (Xxxxxx, 2019: Xxxxx, 2015). According to Xxxxxx (2019), Xxxx Industries intensified its financial and strategic involvement in politics after the creation of the CAP. Meaning that this could be evidence for the CAP being the focussing event for Xxxx Industries. Xxxxxxx Xxxx mentioned that the environmental regulations in the CAP “make people’s lives worse rather than bette...
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