About StateEnvironmentalWatch

State Environmental Watch is an on-line database and information clearinghouse providing factual information on state-based non-profit environmental groups. This free and convenient service identifies the location, leadership and membership of each profiled group. It tells you about its activities and uncovers its sources of funding, including government, foundation, and corporate grants. State Environmental Watch also produces timely news reports and analyses of the environmental movement at the state and local levels.

Ever since the first annual Earth Day in 1970, environmental organizations have grown increasingly assertive. Supported by wealthy foundations and in some cases by government grants, these tax-exempt groups orchestrate political, legal and public relations campaigns that aim to protect and improve the environment. But green activism, however well intentioned, often harms the environment it would save. It misrepresents the real gains made in cleaning the nation’s air and water. And it promotes needlessly costly policy solutions.

The public and policy makers need to know more about the state-based activities of the environmental movement. Capital Research Center is proud to present StateEnvironmentalWatch.org, a valuable on-line research tool providing this information.