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===2023: [https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/tobacco-control/ Open Philanthropy - Tobacco Control ]=== | |||
*"Legal aid. One strategy outside the MPOWER framework is training legal experts to write better policies and fight against the tobacco industry lobby. There are some organizations working on this. The Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund, which is funded by both Bloomberg and Gates, provides resources to LMICs to pass tobacco control laws. The McCabe Centre in Australia trains government lawyers and policymakers to advance tobacco control laws. I did not find any estimates of how much funding is spent on legal aid, so I am unsure how much this space would benefit from additional funding." | |||
*"The Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies are two of the largest funders in this space. Gates mainly funds tobacco control in Africa, while Bloomberg focuses on large, mainly Asian countries." | |||
===2015: [https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31944575 New global fund to help countries defend tobacco control]=== | |||
===2014: [https://www.uicc.org/news/law-and-cancer-workshop-big-success Law and Cancer workshop a big success]=== | ===2014: [https://www.uicc.org/news/law-and-cancer-workshop-big-success Law and Cancer workshop a big success]=== | ||
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*"The workshop was primarily supported by grants from...and the Bloomberg Philanthropies." | *"The workshop was primarily supported by grants from...and the Bloomberg Philanthropies." | ||
=== | ===2008 - 2013: [https://www.cancervic.org.au/research/behavioural/major-topics-projects/tobacco/pre-testing-and-evaluation-of-mass-media-communications-in-low-and-middle-income-countries.html Pre-testing and evaluation of mass media communications in low and middle income countries]=== | ||
*Funding: Bloomberg Philanthropies via the World Lung Foundation | |||
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==Bangladesh== | ==Bangladesh== | ||
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===2018 Nov 06 - [https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-ags-for-rent-1541549567 State AGs for Rent]=== | ===2018 Nov 06 - [https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-ags-for-rent-1541549567 State AGs for Rent]=== | ||
*Subscription site | *Subscription site | ||
*[https://archive.ph/PkxCQ Alternative link] | |||
*"With the courts and Trump Administration rolling back federal climate regulation, green activists have turned to the states. But there’s a troubling ethical twist: Instead of merely lobbying, activists are placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums. | |||
Consider a remarkable arrangement brokered by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center to fund legal services for state AGs. The group was launched in August 2017 to advance a liberal climate and energy agenda, courtesy of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, which also financed the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign." | |||
===2018 Oct 10 - [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/09/bloomberg_funds_green_work_of_democrat_state_attorneys_offices.html How Bloomberg Embeds Green Warriors in Blue-State Governments]=== | ===2018 Oct 10 - [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/09/bloomberg_funds_green_work_of_democrat_state_attorneys_offices.html How Bloomberg Embeds Green Warriors in Blue-State Governments]=== | ||
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*At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight board member Chris Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | *At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight board member Chris Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | ||
*That suit requested records related to AG Mark Herring’s rather fevered, successful — and then suddenly dropped — pursuit of Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” “to advance the agenda represented by” Bloomberg’s climate group. | *That suit requested records related to AG Mark Herring’s rather fevered, successful — and then suddenly dropped — pursuit of Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” “to advance the agenda represented by” Bloomberg’s climate group. | ||
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===2025 Oct 8 - [https://www.thefirebreak.org/p/can-mike-bloomberg-buy-the-american Can Mike Bloomberg Buy the American Legal System?]=== | |||
*"A group of Wisconsin dairy farmers may be all that stands between the rule of law and billionaire-branded attorneys general." | |||
*"This isn’t just a niche legal spat—it’s a symptom of a larger erosion in democratic accountability. Across at least ten states, similar programs allow ideologically driven nonprofits to plant their attorneys inside public offices, flipping the traditional model where the state hires and oversees outside counsel. The Firebreak has previously documented multiple cases—in Oregon, Michigan and Hawaii—of private lawyers wielding state power to push their climate crusade through the courts." | |||
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