“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“by 2008 the arithmetic of climate change presented an almost unimaginable challenge. If the world were to stay within the range of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“One former insider in the Kochs’ realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribution, described the early donor summits as… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“By the time he accepted the Republican nomination in Tampa the following summer, Romney treated the notion of acting on climate change… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As even the Pentagon, a cautious bastion of technological nonpartisanship, concluded, “the danger from climate change is real, urgent, and severe.” An… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“At the end of 2011, only twenty of the sixty-five Republican members of Congress who responded to a survey were willing to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Kochs’, declared, “The blue dress moment may have arrived.” But instead of using Monica Lewinsky’s telltale garment to impeach Bill Clinton,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image