Dozens of corporations have partnered with environmental groups to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, RedState reports.
The Keystone pipeline has faced fierce opposition from liberal environmental groups, particularly the World Wildlife Fund and the Environmental Defense Fund, who have engaged in lobbying with a host of other environmental groups.
The groups found success after the Senate rejected on Tuesday a bill that would allow construction of the Keystone pipeline.
According to RedState, a number of corporations have partnered with the radical environmental groups "under the guise of ‘environmental protection.’"
Bank of America, Barnes and Noble, Coca-Cola, CVS, Disney, Hilton, Gap, Hewlitt-Packard, Nabisco and Subway are all listed as corporate partners with the World Wildlife Fund having made substantial donations to the organization. Likewise, Caterpillar, Starbucks, Walmart, McDonald’s and AT&T have all engaged in partnerships with the Environmental Defense Fund, the same organization that ran television ads and organized voter turnout efforts to support Democrat Senate candidates in Iowa, Colorado and North Carolina in 2014.
To be fair, many of those companies listed above are also members of the Business Roundtable, the pro-business organization that "strongly endorse(d)" the approval of the Keystone XL project just last week.
So why does it seem that large corporations are playing both sides of the fence on this issue? In part, because conservatives have not educated themselves on the final destination of their dollars Liberals have a corner on the hyperbolic protest and false outrage market because they know corporations are responsive. As a result, companies are funding both pro-business agendas to support their own financial interests, and left-wing environmental groups because of outside pressure.