Hang with me, here. I will have a Minnesota connection before this post concludes.
A Boston-based, environmental non-profit named Ceres "leads a national coalition of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change." Ceres runs BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy), one of whose goals is "pricing carbon appropriately".
Among the many business members of BICEP are Minnesota-based Best Buy and Target.
We Can Lead is a BICEP project and it pushed hard for the Waxman/Markey cap and trade bill back in 2009. Who funded this effort? One funder, according to its 2009 IRS Form 990, was the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, who gave $500,000 to Ceres to support the We Can Lead effort.
In 2009, the Rockefeller Brothers fund also donated to the Tides Center, the Tides Foundation, the Will Steger Foundation, Fresh Energy, and the Great Plains Institute among others.
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