Sentences with phrase «conservative thinktanks»

Peabody's filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative thinktanks and organisations.

... «The conservative thinktanks are really the spearhead of the conservative assault on climate change,» said Riley Dunlap, * a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who studies environmental politics.

The uniformity of views is particularly notable among conservative thinktanks.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry and so - called «free market» ideologues at conservative thinktanks have misled the public on the science and the risks of climate change.

Olliff - Cooper, an executive member of the young Conservative thinktank Bright Blue, has worked across Whitehall, first in the Conservative Party Policy Unit and later for the Cabinet Office.

Unfortunately, it is also hard to ignore that it could be perceived as timely hype given this conservative thinktank's opposition to the carbon tax, what with Salby making his sweeping political statement against the IPCC right on cue.

Not exact matches

During the twilight years of the Clinton administration, a conservative republican thinktank presented the President with a bold statement of principles conceived to advance America's interests as the dominant global empire.

Conservative plans to introduce a marriage tax break have been challenged by a thinktank report arguing marriage is not decisive in making relationships more stable.

Policy Exchange, probably the biggest and richest of the thinktanks, has enjoyed close links with the Conservative party.

The backlash against a report which called for people to move from poor northern cities to London has triggered a massive backlash from the Conservative party, which has close links with the thinktank which produced it.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

[20][21] In 2012, he published a pamphlet through the thinktank Demos called Stop the Union Bashing: Why Conservatives Should Embrace the Trade Union Movement, which relayed the history of trade unionism in the Conservative Party, and called for these links to be revived.

Naturally the conservative papers will cater to their thinktank contributors like Pete du Pont et al..

A while ago, the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, a conservative / libertarian / denialist thinktank, got into a lot of trouble by putting up billboards with pictures of people like the Unabomber who, Heartland claimed, were climate change believers.

One is a thinktank of the conservative nature.