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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. 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Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
It drew attention to the fact that numerous cryptocurrency companies and executives contributed large sums of money to politicians who supported the sector during the most recent US elections. Given that a number of these politicians have won their races, Kganyago voiced concern that this would result in a situation where the riches and power of the cryptocurrency business drive regulation. Noting the perils of political influence on the regulatory process, Kganyago declared, \"Regulation is going to be established through the power of money.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
It drew attention to the fact that numerous cryptocurrency companies and executives contributed large sums of money to politicians who supported the sector during the most recent US elections. Given that a number of these politicians have won their races, Kganyago voiced concern that this would result in a situation where the riches and power of the cryptocurrency business drive regulation. Noting the perils of political influence on the regulatory process, Kganyago declared, \"Regulation is going to be established through the power of money.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Kganyago not only criticized the Bitcoin lobbying effort but also cautioned about the dangers of what he called \"regulatory capture.\" This phrase describes a circumstance in which regulatory bodies, tasked with monitoring the industry, are unduly swayed by the very industries they are meant to be monitoring. The crypto industry's vigorous lobbying activities, particularly in the US, may result in a system where well-funded corporations' interests rather than more general social or economic concerns shape policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It drew attention to the fact that numerous cryptocurrency companies and executives contributed large sums of money to politicians who supported the sector during the most recent US elections. Given that a number of these politicians have won their races, Kganyago voiced concern that this would result in a situation where the riches and power of the cryptocurrency business drive regulation. Noting the perils of political influence on the regulatory process, Kganyago declared, \"Regulation is going to be established through the power of money.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Kganyago, however, strongly disagreed with the idea that Bitcoin ought to be included in national reserves and questioned why it was chosen over other important assets. He underlined that before making such a choice, one should take into account Bitcoin's volatility and lack of inherent worth. A lobby arguing that \u201cgovernments ought to own this or that asset would seriously bother everybody. Gold is not without its history. The gold standard used to be Okay, let's talk about bitcoins. How about platinum? How about coal? Why does everybody not have strategic stores of apples, mutton, or beef? Why Bitcoin?\u201d Kganyago questioned the reasoning for giving Bitcoin precedence over other commodities that would be more suited for national reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago not only criticized the Bitcoin lobbying effort but also cautioned about the dangers of what he called \"regulatory capture.\" This phrase describes a circumstance in which regulatory bodies, tasked with monitoring the industry, are unduly swayed by the very industries they are meant to be monitoring. The crypto industry's vigorous lobbying activities, particularly in the US, may result in a system where well-funded corporations' interests rather than more general social or economic concerns shape policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It drew attention to the fact that numerous cryptocurrency companies and executives contributed large sums of money to politicians who supported the sector during the most recent US elections. Given that a number of these politicians have won their races, Kganyago voiced concern that this would result in a situation where the riches and power of the cryptocurrency business drive regulation. Noting the perils of political influence on the regulatory process, Kganyago declared, \"Regulation is going to be established through the power of money.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":45},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Kganyago, however, strongly disagreed with the idea that Bitcoin ought to be included in national reserves and questioned why it was chosen over other important assets. He underlined that before making such a choice, one should take into account Bitcoin's volatility and lack of inherent worth. A lobby arguing that \u201cgovernments ought to own this or that asset would seriously bother everybody. Gold is not without its history. The gold standard used to be Okay, let's talk about bitcoins. How about platinum? How about coal? Why does everybody not have strategic stores of apples, mutton, or beef? Why Bitcoin?\u201d Kganyago questioned the reasoning for giving Bitcoin precedence over other commodities that would be more suited for national reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago not only criticized the Bitcoin lobbying effort but also cautioned about the dangers of what he called \"regulatory capture.\" This phrase describes a circumstance in which regulatory bodies, tasked with monitoring the industry, are unduly swayed by the very industries they are meant to be monitoring. The crypto industry's vigorous lobbying activities, particularly in the US, may result in a system where well-funded corporations' interests rather than more general social or economic concerns shape policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It drew attention to the fact that numerous cryptocurrency companies and executives contributed large sums of money to politicians who supported the sector during the most recent US elections. Given that a number of these politicians have won their races, Kganyago voiced concern that this would result in a situation where the riches and power of the cryptocurrency business drive regulation. Noting the perils of political influence on the regulatory process, Kganyago declared, \"Regulation is going to be established through the power of money.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong of Coinbase, on the other hand, defended the political involvement of the cryptocurrency industry, saying it was an indication of democracy in action. Armstrong argued that since this is a typical aspect of the political process, cryptocurrency companies ought to be permitted to support candidates who share their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armstrong made the case that democracy works when people can influence their leaders in a way that reflects their interests. It cites the growing role of the cryptocurrency sector in American politics as encouraging for the future of digital assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Notwithstanding their divergent views on lobbying, Kganyago and Armstrong concurred that the cryptocurrency sector is developing quickly and will probably continue to influence international financial institutions. Kganyago's remarks, however, highlight the necessity of balanced regulation to guarantee that the power of cryptocurrency firms does not compromise the integrity of the regulatory process or the general welfare of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kganyago's caution on regulatory capture is especially pertinent in light of the global movement for more transparent crypto laws. Regulators are under growing pressure to develop regulations that foster innovation while maintaining the security and transparency of markets as the cryptocurrency sector expands. However, a significant concern that many regulators will have to confront is the possibility of regulatory capture, in which the interests of influential cryptocurrency corporations may take precedence over those of the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discussion at the WEF is representative of the larger worldwide discussion on how to strike a balance between the expansion of the cryptocurrency business and the requirement for strict financial regulation. The emphasis will probably move toward developing regulatory frameworks that shield markets and investors from manipulation and undue influence as more nations think about how to integrate digital assets into their financial systems. Crypto industry advocates<\/a>, such as Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, push for a deeper integration of digital assets into the global financial system. On the other hand, Lesetja Kganyago continues to support cautious and thorough regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will be critical for regulatory agencies to maintain their independence and public interest focus throughout these discussions rather than allowing the impact of well-funded lobbying campaigns to persuade them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Why South Africa opposes bitcoin in national reserves","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"why-south-africa-opposes-bitcoin-in-national-reserves","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7382","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7379,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-29 19:59:05","post_content":"\n Trump's longstanding advisor and bankruptcy attorney, David M. Friedman, changed diplomatic conventions by using his personal legal connections to land the Israel ambassadorship. His extreme pro-settlement views were a natural fit with Trump's strategy, allowing him to embrace contentious measures like annexing the West Bank and relocating the embassy to Jerusalem. Friedman's unheard-of diplomatic power was directly made possible by his financial and legal connections to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump's potential return signals robust support for Israeli West Bank annexation. By lifting settler sanctions and historically backing expansionist policies, he provides implicit approval for Netanyahu's territorial ambitions. His administration's approach suggests unconditional support for Israel's settlement expansion and sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not a single settlement would be dismantled under Trump's \"peace to prosperity plan,\" which would maintain Israeli control over all of them. Thanks to the administration of Trump<\/a> and Biden, there are already more than 750,000 of those settlers. After knowing Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, the US shifted its embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump ordered the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office, which was in Washington, DC. He also stopped all US aid to the West Bank and Gaza in 2018. He had already given $360 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East\u200c (UNRWA).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n After an agreement with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, the US and Israel lobby want to make their relationship with the United Arab Emirates better way in 2020-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \"Abraham Accords\" signatories were bound together by their shared military and intelligence links with the US lobby. Palestine had been a secondary concern in US policy for many years. It was disappearing off the map now. The Palestinian state, recognized by the UN and increasingly accepted by the international world, is undercut by Trump's regional ambitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration will assist in \"reforming\" a collaborationist Palestinian leadership and hold Biden accountable for the murderous murders in Gaza. It is anticipated to facilitate Israel's lobby's successful annexation of the West Bank and additional settlement growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It will strengthen Jerusalem's position as the capital of Israel. It will make every effort to reduce the role of UNRWA. Trump is a \"transactional\" president who exhibits overt opportunism. His advisors and insiders promote a strange concoction of ultra-conservatism, militaristic policies, biblical righteousness, and Western values. These ideologues will hamper his transactional cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Shaping State Hydrogen Policies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Targeting states for hydrogen growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Is Bitcoin a better reserve asset? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is the link between Bitcoin and US politics?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A balance between cryptocurrency business and financial regulation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s new plans for Palestine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Is it possible for the return of Jews to Israel?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Pro-Israel lobby\u2019s influence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
State-driven hydrogen advocacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hydrogen Alliance goes local<\/h2>\n\n\n\n