Defund the Regulatory Studies Center.
The Regulatory Studies Center is an academic center of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and claims to be an unbiased research institute focused on improving regulatory policy.
However, several reports have revealed otherwise. The RSC received over four million dollars from ExxonMobil and the Koch network; support from those who will profit the most from de-regulation of the fossil fuel industry.
These ties to the fossil fuel industry means the RSC publishes consistently biased research supporting de-regulation that policymakers often cite when rolling back environmentally-friendly policies.
Scholarship on the RSC
The RSC in the press
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