Business opposition to environmental law built its own foundation-backed intellectual apparatus

Evidence

Accordingly, a group of conservative business and intellectual leaders identified those charitable foundations that had played instrumental roles in promoting the efforts of environmental public interest groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and lobbied those foundations to cease their funding. The leaders of this new conservative movement decided to create their own foundations to support new think tanks and conservative public interest law firms— for example, the Heritage Foundation, the American Council on Science and Health, the Institute for Educational Affairs, the Washington Legal Foundation, and the Pacific Legal Foundation—that would be philosophically supportive of business concerns. Industry leaders also sought ways to influence the national news media that they believed had been unduly sympathetic to the claims of environmentalists. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the earlier passage on ‘Post-1970s business philanthropy deliberately funded think tanks and intellectuals to reverse environmental regulation’ — this is the concrete mechanism chapter showing how. — connects to: Post-1970s business philanthropy deliberately funded think tanks and intellectuals to reverse environmental regulation. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 436; Business funded a two-decade intellectual pipeline to change environmental law — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 439; Business patrons funded free market ideas while fearing intellectual disloyalty — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1442 (+1 more)
• SHARE: Good for someone following modern conservative infrastructure — the Heritage Foundation lineage from anti-environmental backlash.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Business patrons funded free market ideas while fearing intellectual disloyalty #corroborates (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1442