{"id":4794,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/american-council-on-capital-formation-accf\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:56:26","slug":"american-council-on-capital-formation-accf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/american-council-on-capital-formation-accf\/","title":{"rendered":"American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4subtitle'>Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span><br \/><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>$600,000 received from Koch foundations, 1997-2015<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"leader\">The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers\u00a0to produce and disseminate <a class=\"zoom\" title=\"ACCf distorted economic analyses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accf.org\/publications\/126\/accf-nam-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distorted economic analyses<\/a> that overstate the costs of climate legislation and have been prominently featured at <a class=\"zoom\" title=\"ACCF US Chamber &quot;forums&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yourenergyfuture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Chamber of Commerce-organized &#8220;forums&#8221;<\/a> on climate over the past year. The ACCF\/NAM studies have been credibly <a class=\"zoom\" title=\"ACCF debunked\" href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/ljohnson\/namaccf_distorting_their_own_d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunked<\/a> <a class=\"zoom\" title=\"ACCF more than twice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-08-05-pay-no-attention-to-footnote-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than once<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>ACCF is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/en\/campaigns\/global-warming-and-energy\/polluterwatch\/koch-industries\/state-policy-network-spn\/?__utma=1.834972712.1309880319.1345146585.1345148660.342&amp;__utmb=1.1.10.1345148660&amp;__utmc=1&amp;__utmx=-&amp;__utmz=1.1345137232.339.249.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&amp;__utmv=-&amp;__utmk=254992904\">State Policy Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secureusa.greenpeace.org\/convio\/koch_funding.php?o=58\" width=\"600\" height=\"1150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SourceWatch profile:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/American_Council_for_Capital_Formation\">American Council for Capital Formation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeSmogBlog profile: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/american-council-for-capital-formation\">American Council for Capital Formation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little Sis profile of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/org\/40351\/American_Council_for_Capital_Formation\">American Council for Capital Formation<\/a>\u00a0political affiliations<\/p>\n<p>OpenSecrets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/lobby\/clientsum.php?id=D000046902&amp;cycle=2014\">American Council for Capital Formation lobbying expenditures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ExxonSecrets profile: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exxonsecrets.org\/html\/orgfactsheet.php?id=77\">American Council for Capital Formation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conservative Transparency: <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetransparency.org\/recipient\/american-council-for-capital-formation\/\">American Council for Capital Formation funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group$600,000 received from Koch foundations, 1997-2015 The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers\u00a0to produce and disseminate distorted economic analyses that overstate the costs of climate legislation and have been prominently featured at US Chamber of Commerce-organized &#8220;forums&#8221; on climate over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":4716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_hide_page_title_checkbox":"","p4_title":"","p4_subtitle":"","p4_description":"","background_image_id":"","background_image":"","p4_button_title":"","p4_button_link":"","p4_button_link_checkbox":"","p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-climate-campaign"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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