According to the Minority Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, a “close knit network of likeminded funders, environmental activists, and government bureaucrats . . . specialize in manufacturing phony ‘grassroots’ movements and in promoting bogus propaganda disguised as science and news to spread an anti-fossil energy message to the unknowing public.” See the Complete Colorado report for details, or see the Senate report itself, titled, “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA.”