The National Journal examines the growing but controversial practice of so-called grassroots lobbying -- a segment of the industry that remains unregu...
James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011
Jack Bonner and his 'Associates' are Astroturf specialists, working for the agendas of major corporate clients, who pay his firm large sums of money to manufacture 'citizen outrage'.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Thursday night on the Colbert Report, Stephen weighed in on the allegations that Bonner and Associates, a lobby group for the coal industry had sent f...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has expanded its investigation into the lobbying activities of the American Coali...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
On last night's Rachel Maddow Show, she focused attention on two lobbying firms that have recently taken a turn in the baleful eye of the spotlight: s...
James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011
In swing states, 63 percent of voters support the climate change legislation currently being considered in the Senate.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Duke Energy announced today that it has left the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the dirty coal front group lobbying against Congressional action on climate change.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011
Energy companies are beginning to realize that siding with front groups like the coal lobby put them on the wrong side of the clean energy issue.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Fires rage across California as Hurricane Jimena bears down on Baja; Lights out for incandescent lightbulbs; The Summer of...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
This latest evidence of insincerity and misinformation adds to a growing heap of scandals plaguing the coal industry's attempts to weaken action on climate and energy security.
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
The clear solution: end the astroturf loophole in the Lobby Disclosure Act
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Where is the rogue temporary employee to defend himself and shed light on the way Bonner's sweat-shop pro-coal lobby operation operates?
Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011
Bonner and Associates is a naked fraud.
Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011
Who could have predicted that hiring basically anyone off the street and training them for two hours in a "white-collar sweatshop" would lead to something like this?
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Bonner & Associates has a long record of shady Astroturf work on behalf of many polluting industries, pharmaceutical companies and Big Tobacco.
James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011
If Bonner's clients are that desperate to have a voice on Capitol Hill, Congress should call a hearing, inquiring into just how much influence is being peddled through phony organizations.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011
Five new forged letters fraudulently sent to Congressmembers have turned up in an ongoing Congressional investigation into the Astroturf campaign laun...
Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011
There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 05.25.2011