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Net Neutrality Fight Made Allies of Wireless Industry, Conservative Dark Money Organizations A pair of telecommunications industry trade organizations gave more than $3 million to nonprofit organizations that helped secure the Tax Return Shows Mercer Family Fueled Climate Skeptics Last Year With More Than $4 Million A controversial family credited with helping Donald Trump win the White House spent $4.4 million last year to finance climate change deniers, according to its foundation’s latest tax return. Net Neutrality Potentially Gains Powerful Foe in Top Justice Candidate Corporations that have spent millions to gut Obama-era net neutrality laws may soon get more influential help to thwart state measures aimed at protecting consumers from having to pay extra for internet “fast lanes.” Almost Two Years After Pruitt Nomination, Tax Return Reveals Extent of Dark Money Support More than four months after Scott Pruitt resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency in disgrace, the public is finally receiving details about the special interest money spent to confirm him as the agency’s administrator. Wealthy Opponents Of San Francisco Homeless Services Tax Bankrolled 2016 Tent Ban Donors opposing a ballot measure to fund more homeless services in San Francisco with a new tax on its wealthiest companies previously bankrolled a successful 2016 initiative to ban tent encampments in the city. Corporations Flood Midterms With Money Even While Running Up $1.7 Trillion In Debt Corporations that are pouring campaign cash into the midterm election cycle have accu*ulated at least $1.7 trillion dollars in debt, according to a MapLight an*lysis of Securities and Exchange Commission docu*ents. Since March 2017, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt has met with at least 39 organizations that donated $286,000 to his Oklahoma campaigns or affiliated political committees. Read more here Senators Must Now File Campaign Reports Online — a Victory for Democracy