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Fossil Fuel Industry Mobilizes Front Group To Weaken NY Climate Law

By Rob Galbraith and Derek Seidman
April 19, 2022

A new astroturf “coalition” that’s pushing fossil fuels in New York State is backed by a slew of major oil and gas companies.

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Real estate & private equity billionaires set to profit from NY clean grid investments

By Rob Galbraith
December 13, 2021

Clean power transmission projects planned for New York will be built and owned by Blackstone Group and Related Companies.

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Utilities Continue to Profit from Pandemic Misery & Obstruct Energy Transition

By Rob Galbraith, Munira Lokhandwala and Derek Seidman
November 30, 2021

Here are some resources on how to research and map utility power that is super-exploiting captive customers amidst the pandemic.

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The Iraq War ‘spinmeister’ and high-powered lobbyists behind Pegula’s stadium shakedown

By Rob Galbraith
August 20, 2021

A war propagandist from the Bush administration and well-connected Albany lobbyists are working to extract $1.4 billion in subsidies from New Yorkers.

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Gig work front group run by lobbying firm Mercury falsely claimed support from Buffalo community organizations

By Rob Galbraith
June 4, 2021

Uber and Lyft-backed group falsely claimed that several community groups in Buffalo endorse its effort to deny workplace protections to app workers in New York.

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Buffalo News’s anti-tax screed fails to disclose ties to group lobbying against taxing the rich

By Rob Galbraith
March 29, 2021

The Buffalo News is a “major investor” in – and publisher Tom Wiley sits on the board of – a group lobbying against taxing the rich.

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Newsom Delivers for Energy Clients of Lobbyist he Celebrated at French Laundry

By Derek Seidman and Donald Shaw, Sludge
January 12, 2021

The Newsom administration’s decisions have repeatedly benefited the energy clients of the firm of his close lobbyist friend Jason Kinney.

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Energy Giant NRG Splurges on Powerful NY Lobbyists in Pursuit of Astoria Fracked-Gas Plant

By Derek Seidman
December 17, 2020

NRG has paid an army of powerful lobbyists hundreds of thousands of dollars to push a proposed fracked-gas plant against community opposition.

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Cuomo fundraises with Finger Lakes billionaires as austerity cuts drive upstate NY cities towards crisis

By Rob Galbraith
September 3, 2020

NY governor is raising money from billionaires on promises not to raise their taxes and instead slash state funding for poor cities

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Cuomo puts private equity vulture in charge of coronavirus economic recovery

By Rob Galbraith
March 24, 2020

Selection of Blackstone senior advisory director Bill Mulrow raises concerns about Wall Street profiteering from coronavirus recovery

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Insurance-backed lobbying group attacking universal healthcare in NY is also funded by public hospital and cancer research center

By Rob Galbraith
February 14, 2020

Roswell Park Cancer Center and Erie County Medical Center belong to lobbying group working to protect health insurance profits

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Why is the University of Michigan Financing the Billionaire Oilman Who’s Bankrolling the Texas Far Right?

By Derek Seidman
February 3, 2020

The University of Michigan and Michigan State have tens of millions invested in the private equity fund that finances the business operations of Tim Dunn, the billionaire oilman who is bankrolling the Texas extreme right.

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