As several business owners in North Carolina recently found out, "green" nonprofits aren't always forthcoming about their agendas. Despite receiving tens of millions of dollars from billionaires like Tom Steyer and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, many of these environmental groups have taken to desperate measures to attract support from the general public for their unpopular agendas.
Recently,
investigative journalists at the Asheville Citizen-Times and National Review
revealed that the Sierra Club had allegedly added signatories to a petition demanding that Duke Energy
cease the operations of one of its coal-fired power plants in Asheville, North
Carolina. Of the 80 businesses listed on the petition, at least six had never
agreed to lend their support to the Sierra Club at all, several claimed to be
victims of bait-and-switch, strong-arming tactics and one didn't even exist.
These
businesses reportedly signed up for information relating to the Sierra Club's
environmental agenda, which included helping the group address concerns about
the Duke plant's waste management. Calling for the plant's outright closure,
however, was not something they signed their names to.
These
questionable and unethical practices have earned the Sierra Club a spot on Charity Navigator's "watch list," a major warning
to potential donors and signatories that they may want to think twice before
supporting groups that engage in dishonest behavior. Disturbingly, the Sierra
Club is only the latest environmental nonprofit to exhibit bad behavior and be
forced to address public relations nightmares over the last year.....To Read More....
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