Anti-Environmental Archives
The Anti-Environmental Archives is a project to curate historic documents from the anti-environmental movement, cataloging organizations and individuals who work to undermine environmental protection and conservation.
With the launch of this archive on Earth Day 2015, we are posting over 3,500 documents, some 27,000 pages, covering 350 organizations and individuals. The current archive includes mainly documents collected in the late 1980s through the early 2000s by The Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR), an organization that tracked the rise of the so called "Wise Use" movement in the 1990s during the Clinton presidency. Multiple organizations and individuals who were active in the anti-environmental movement in the 1990s are still fighting today against Federal environmental and public lands policy.
More documents will be added over time from FOIAs, court records and other research. We welcome document contributions. Please contact us anonymously or directly through the mail or email.
Advanced Document Search How to use the Archives Top Anti-Environmental Groups
Full list of Anti-Environmental and Wise-Use groups and individuals below.
Narrow your search by using these categories:
Group Types Anti-Environmental Issues Trade Associations/Corporate Front Groups Significant Individuals
- 700 Club
- Abundant Wildlife Society
- Accuracy in Media
- Adirondack Solidarity Alliance
- Air Quality Standards Coalition
- Alabama Forest Owners Association
- Alaska Forestry Association
- Alaska Loggers Association
- Alexis de Tocqueville Institute
- All Citizens Equal
- Alliance for America
- Alliance for the West
- America's Partner
- America's Voice
- American Association of Small Property Owners
- American Council for Capital Formation
- American Council on Science and Health
- American Crop Protection Association
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Forest and Paper Association
- American Freedom Coalition
- American Homeowners Foundation
- American Industrial Health Council
- American League of Anglers
- American Motorcyclist Association
- American Petroleum Institute
- American Policy Center
- American Property Rights Alliance
- American Recreation Coalition
- American Sheep Industry
- Americans for Constitutional Enforcement
- American's Future
- Annapolis Center
- Arizona Cattle Growers Association
- Arnold, Ron
- Associated Oregon Loggers
- Atlantic Legal Foundation
- Batsel, Henry
- Bivings Woodell Inc.
- Blue Ribbon Coalition
- Bonner and Associates
- Boycott Chevron
- Boycott Mitsubishi
- Burson Marsteller
- Bush, George W. and George H. W. Bush
- Business Roundtable
- California Association of Business, Property, and Resource Owners
- California Environmental Business Coalition
- California Forest Products Commission
- California Forestry Association
- California Landowners Alliance
- California Mosquito and Vector Control
- Campus Report of the Right
- Canadian Share Movement
- Capital Research Center
- Capitol Watch
- Cascade Policy Institute
- Cato Institute
- Center for Individual Rights
- Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
- Chemical Manufacturers Association
- Chenoweth, Helen
- Chlorine Chemistry Council
- Chlorine Institute
- Christian Coalition
- Citizen Energy Alert Network
- Citizens Equal Rights Alliance
- Citizens for a Healthy Forest Economy
- Citizens for a Sound Economy
- Citizens for Honest Government
- Citizens for Responsible Zoning
- Citizens Land Alliance
- Citizens to Protect the Northwest Economy
- Citizens United
- Clallam Citizens Coalition
- Claremont Institute
- Clausen, Barry
- Clean Water Industry Coalition
- Clean Water Network
- CLEAR Reports
- Club 20
- Coalition for a Competitive Food and Agriculture System
- Coalition for America
- Coalition for Energy and Economic Revitalization
- Coalition for Fair Regulation
- Coalition for Local Environmental Action and Responsibility
- Coalition for Natural Resource Damages Reform
- Coalition for Truth in Environmental Marketing
- Coalition for Vehicle Choice
- Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates
- Coalition of Resources and Economies
- Colorado Mining Association
- Colorado River Resources Association
- Common Man Institute
- Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
- Committee of One Million
- Committee to Preserve American Security and Sovereignty
- Committee to Restore the Constitution
- Communities for a Great Northwest
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Conch Coalition
- Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus
- Conservationists with Common Sense
- Conservative Caucus
- Conservative Foundations
- Consumer Alert
- Council for Agriculture, Science, and Technology
- Council on Competitiveness
- Council for National Policy
- Council on Property Rights
- County Action News
- Craig, Senator Larry
- Crawford, Lester
- Cushman, Chuck
- Cyprus Amax Mineral Company
- Davis Mountain Trans-Pecos Heritage Association
- Defenders of Property Rights
- Defund the Left
- Devos Foundation
- Douglas Timber
- DOW Chemical
- Dunlop, Becky Norton
- DuPont
- E.L. Wiegand Foundation
- Eagle Council
- Earth Day Alternatives
- Earth Vision Institute
- Eco-terrorism: the Wise-Use Perspective
- Ecology Channel
- Ecoterrorism Watch
- Edison Electric
- Electric Consumer Alliance
- Environment Now
- Environment, Yes! Bureaucracy, No!
- Environmental Conservation Organization
- Environmental Education Enterprise
- Environmental Issues Council
- Environmental Perspectives
- Environmental Policy Analysis Network
- European Science and Environment Forum
- Evergreen Foundation
- Fairness to Landowners Committee
- Family Business First Coalition
- Family Research Council
- Family Water Alliance
- Farm Credit Property Rights Foundation
- Federated Women in Timber
- Ferry County Action League
- Fertilizer Institute
- Fishermen's Coalition
- Forest Values Task Force
- Fossil Bill Kramer
- Foundation for Clean Air Progress
- Foundation for Economic Education
- Foundation for Habitat Conservation
- Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
- Franks, Adrian
- Free Congress Foundation
- Freedom Alliance
- Friends of the River
- Fumento, Michael
- Fur Commission
- Future Earth
- George C. Marshall Institute
- Gerber, Grant
- Get Government Off Our Back
- Global Climate Information Project
- Gottlieb, Alan
- Governments Institute
- Grassroots Endangered Species Act Coalition
- Grassroots for Multiple Use
- Green Speak
- Green Watch
- Greening Earth Society
- Grocery Manufacturers of America
- Gudmundsson, Magnus
- Hage, Wayne
- Handmade in America
- Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
- Heartland Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- High North Alliance
- Hodel, Don
- Hoover Institute
- Hudson Institute
- Hunting and Angling Club
- Idaho Cattle Association
- Independent Institute
- Independent Petroleum Association
- Indiana Land Improvement Contractors
- Individual Rights Foundation
- Institute for Humane Studies
- Institute for Justice
- Intermountain Forest Industry Association
- International Wildlife Management Consortium
- John Birch Society
- Keep America Beautiful
- Klamath Alliance for Resources and Environment
- Koch Family
- Ku Klux Klan
- Land Rights Letter
- Landmark Legal Foundation
- LaRouche, Lyndon
- Leadership Institute
- League for Historical and Cultural Preservation
- League of Kentucky Landowners
- League of Private Property Voters
- Legal Affairs Council
- Legal Foundations: Wise-Use and Anti-Environmental, general
- Liberty Matters
- Limbaugh, Rush
- Lincoln Heritage Institute
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- Living Lakes, Inc.
- Louisiana-Pacific
- Lucas, David
- Maduro, Rogelio
- Maine Conservation Rights Institute
- Manufacturing Chemists Association
- Martinez, Carlos
- Michigan Forest Association
- Michigan Land Use Institute
- Michigan Property Owners Association
- Milloy, Steven
- Mills, Ocie
- Mineral Exploration Coalition
- Mississippi Water Resources Coalition
- Molalla Timber Action Committee
- Mongoven
- Montanans for Common Sense
- Montanans for Private Property Rights
- Moss-Adams
- Mountain States Legal Foundation
- Multiple Use Association
- Multiple Use Council
- Munro, Jack
- Murchison, Clint
- National Association of Home Builders
- National Association of Manufacturers
- National Association of Reversionary Property Owners
- National Cattlemen's Association
- National Center for Public Policy Research
- National Consumer Coalition
- National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition
- National Federal Lands Conference
- National Forest Counties and School Coalition
- National Grange
- National Groundwater Association
- National Hardwood Lumber Association
- National Institute for Chemical Studies
- National Landowners Alliance
- National Legal Center for the Public Interest
- National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association
- National Mining Association
- National Policy Forum
- National Rifle Association
- National Security Center
- National Wetlands Coalition
- National Wilderness Institute
- New England Legal Foundation
- New Federalist
- North Texas Oil and Gas
- Northern Lights
- Northwest Forest Resource Council
- Northwest Forestry Association
- Northwest Mining Association
- Northwest Natural Resources Institute
- Northwesterners for More Fish
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- O'Keefe, William
- Ocean Trust
- OffRoad.com
- Ohio Farm Bureau
- Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts
- Oklahoma Conservation Commission
- Oregon Institute of Science
- Oregon Lands Coalition
- Oregon Sportsmen Defense Fund
- Oregonians for Food and Shelter
- Oregonians in Action
- Our Land Society
- Pacific Lumber
- Pacific Research Institute
- Pendley, William Perry
- Pennsylvania Landowners Association, Inc.
- People for the West!
- Philanthropy Roundtable
- Plum Creek
- Potlach Meeting
- Pratt, Larry
- Private Landowners of Wisconsin
- Progress and Freedom Foundation
- Project Relief
- Proper Economic Resource Management
- Property Owners Standing Together
- Property Owners Working for Environmental Responsibility
- Property Rights Alliance
- Property Rights Council of America
- Property Rights Foundation of America
- Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
- Protect American's Rights and Resources
- Public Lands Council
- Public Relations Firms: general
- Pulp and Paperworkers Resource Council
- Putting People First
- Rangeland Reform
- Ray, Dixy Lee
- Regulatory Improvement Council
- Repeal the Endangered Species Act Now
- Resource Development Council
- Resource Sentential
- Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment
- Rhode Island Wise Use
- Rocky Mountain Land Association
- Safari Club
- Sahara Club
- Save Our Industries and Land
- Scaife Foundations
- Science and Environmental Policy Project
- Second Amendment Foundation
- Shandwick
- Sierra Communities Council
- Singer, Fred
- Small Business Survival Committee
- Snow, Tony
- Society Advocating Natural Resources
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
- Society for Objective Science
- Society for the Protection and Care of Wildlife
- Southeastern Legal Foundation
- Southeastern Wood Producers Association
- Southern Defense Initiative Corporation
- Sovereignty International
- Sparber, Peter
- Speak Up America
- Speakers Task Force on the Environment
- Specialty Equipment Market Association
- Sportsmen Defense Fund
- Sportsmen Protecting Every American's Right
- Stand Up Alaska
- State Policy Network
- Statistical Assessment Service
- Stewards of Family Farms, Ranches, and Forests
- Stewards of the Range
- Stop Taking our Property
- Stossel, John
- Sun Valley Institute for Public Policy Analysis
- Superfund Action Alliance
- Superfund Reform Coalition
- Take Back Arkansas
- Tauzin, Billy
- Temperate Forest Foundation
- Texaco
- Texas Conservative Coalition
- Texas Forestry Association
- The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
- Thunder Mountain Wheeler
- Timber Resources Equal Economic Stability
- Unification Church
- Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania
- United Four Wheel Drive Association
- United States Chamber of Commerce
- United States Senate Private Property Caucus
- Vermont Association of Snow Travelers
- Vermont Ski Areas Association
- Vincent, Bruce
- Vinyl Institute
- Virginia Farm Bureau
- Virginia for Property Rights
- Washington Contract Loggers Association
- Washington Legal Foundation
- Washington Private Property Owners Association
- West Central Texas Oil and Gas Association
- West PAC
- West Virginia Forestry Association
- Western States Public Lands Coalition
- Weyerhaeuser
- Wilderness Inquiry, Inc.
- Wildlife Legislative Fund of America
- Wigley, Tim
- Wind River
- Wise Use of the Right
- Women in Mining
- World Climate Report
- World Energy Council
- Young, Don
