Sentences with phrase «spending by environmental groups»
In spite of EPW's focus on Vitter's billionaire's club and political spending by environmental groups, Senator Vitter has refused to support campaign finance reform, or efforts aimed at reducing the wealthy's influence in politics, like the DISCLOSE Act.
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By comparison, anti-fracking environmental organizations, unions and advocacy groups spent merely $ 1.9 million on campaign contributions during that period.
On the other side, environmental groups led by NextGen Climate, which aspired to spend $ 100 million, unleashed waves of advertising to attack Republican positions on climate change, energy and the environment.
Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).
In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy — an appalling statistic.