Environmental groups are planning to spend a record-setting amount this election cycle in an effort to elect Democrats to combat President Donald Trump’s policies.
Fueled by surging donations and anger over the Trump administration’s energy agenda, environmental organizations across the U.S. are planning to spend well over $100 million during the 2018 midterms.
The League of Conservation Voters will spend $60 million, surpassing its previous record of $45 million during the 2016 cycle. The Sierra Club expects to spend around $6 million.
The Environmental Defense Action Fund predicts it will spend more than $6 million and the National Resources Defense Council will spend around $2 million.
Additionally, NextGen Climate Action — an environmental group bankrolled by activist Tom Steyer — plans to shell out $32 million into an attempt to drive young, progressive voters to the polls.
One such strategy includes bringing puppies to registration tents in order to attract college voters’ attention.
Environmental activists are drawn to action in the wake of Trump’s energy agenda, which has included an ambitious rollback of many Obama-era environmental rules.
Since entering office, Trump has begun to dismantle a number of climate change regulations, such as the Clean Power Plan and the Waters of the United States.
The Republican president further enraged environmentalists when he withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
“It will be by far the most money we’ve ever spent,” Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), said in a statement to the Washington Post. “Our supporters around the country are stepping up in a big way because what they’re seeing is the most anti-environmental president in history.”
LCV will dole out around $25 million on Senate and House races, and another $25 million will be directed toward gubernatorial, state and local elections. None of the federal candidates LCV has endorsed are Republicans.
However, many environmentalists do not have the most stellar record when it comes to candidate endorsements.
The LCV, for example, spent $19 million on congressional races in the last election cycle, but only 30 percent of that money went toward successful candidates.
Steyer spent $86 million during the 2016 election — a failed bid to give Democrats a majority in Congress.
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Thats why i never donate to these Eco-Wackos their always behind the Democrats the Greens are the democrats biggist supporters llok how much they pushed for AL GORE these Eco-Nazis/Watermelons
It’s always nice when the 1 % er’s sprinkle a bit of their cash around instead of hording it or buying bigger yachts .
Always nice to hear that they are about to waste another small fortune. One wonders who funds this nonsense – how can anyone who benefits from free market capitalism give money on socialist causes? It makes no sense.
The average citizen isn’t concerned about anthropological climate change as poll after poll has shown. These radical organizations provide a means for a small minority to have excessive influence. Let’s hope that the results of the last election is repeated and not many of the candidates being funded are successful.
It would be good if the radicals made climate change a campaign issue. The facts are not on their side and that would provide a means of the other side of the debate being heard. Another thing making a campaign issue would do is show the public how much the environmentalist agenda would cost for an issue the public doesn’t even care about.
Not surprised at all about how much the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons pay big time support to the democrats since Al Bore wrote his Eco-Babble book EARTH IN THE BALANCE back in 1992 and his two fake Documenties a mean Bruce(Babbling)Babbit belonged to the LCV and the Sierra Club supports the Democ-RATS