{"id":4775,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/americans-for-tax-reform-atr\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:55:04","slug":"americans-for-tax-reform-atr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/americans-for-tax-reform-atr\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span>
$117,250 from Koch foundations, 2003-2017
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Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) denies<\/a> the basic science of global warming and opposes federal policies to address it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 1998, ATR’s Peter Cleary was part of a meeting at the American Petroleum Institute that produced the Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan<\/a>. The plan was published by the New York Times, revealing how\u00a0fossil fuel companies and would finance surrogate groups to strategically undermine public trust in climate scientists and their research.<\/div>\n
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ATR focused on costs and denial in their 2008 “Cost of Government”<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

In 2009, ATR’s\u00a0Todd Hollenbeck<\/a>\u00a0promoted<\/a> a film featuring climate science deniers called “Not Evil, Just Wrong<\/a>,” smeared<\/a> Al Gore in attempts to discredit climate science, and encouraged<\/a> ATR’s members to oppose national climate legislation. Despite promoting doubt<\/a> over climate science, Hollenbeck has no scientific qualifications. He\u00a0now works at the Foundation for Economic Education<\/a> and was previously a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow at the Independence Institute<\/a> and a Students for Liberty<\/a> campus coordinator.<\/p>\n

Americans for Tax Reform is a member of the State Policy Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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