Celebrating Progress in Clean Energy, Defending Consumer and Environmental Protections, and Making Sense of Disaster: 2017 in Review
At Frontier Group, we provide information and ideas to help America bring its resources to bear on the problems that matter most. Here's what we've done over the last year...
Whether you are a long-time ally of Frontier Group or a new friend, we are grateful for your partnership in our work to provide information and ideas for a cleaner, healthier, fairer and more democratic America.
Here are a few of the highlights of that work over the past year.
Frontier Group's September update highlights wasteful highway projects across the country, suggests better ways for Wisconsin to spend its transportation money, exposes U.S. coal-fired power plants as a major global source of pollution that harms the climate, and more.
Frontier Group's August Update includes news on the states that are leading the nation in solar energy, new evidence of growing child poverty in America's suburbs, and the FDA guidelines that are supposed to slash antibiotics use on factory farms, but won't.
Frontier Group's monthly update highlights our latest reports and activities. This month: we document Big Oil's big money campaign to allow shipments of tar sands oil through Maine, we turn the spotlight on America's biggest industrial water polluters, and we quantify the environmental benefits of a future with more electric vehicles.
Frontier Group's monthly update highlights our recent reports and activities. This month's update spotlights new research on America's leading "solar cities" and state government transparency, as well as a shout-out from Sen. Elizabeth Warren regarding our reports on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's consumer complaint database.
At Frontier Group we work to clarify and illuminate the public policy choices facing our society. This spring and summer, we've highlighted the opportunities presented by emerging clean energy sources such as solar power, the challenges of dirty energy practices such as fracking, and the important implications of changing driving patterns on U.S. transportation policy.
This winter, Frontier Group’s research helped spur debate on public interest issues that have gained new resonance in today’s high-stakes discussions about reforming our tax system and holding our government accountable for its spending. In particular, our work around the impact of offshore tax haven abuse on state budgets, and on states’ efforts to increase the transparency of their spending online not only received widespread media coverage, but also prompted action by public officials. Our analysis of successful clean energy programs across the country also allowed us to offer policy guidance to state and local governments seeking to tap into the benefits of clean energy.
Frontier Group added new information and perspectives this summer to debates on issues ranging from global warming to health care to land conservation, capturing the attention of decision-makers and the media and forwarding efforts to address these critical issues in ways that advance the public interest.
We’re seeing change happening across a swath of issues we’re working on, with major implications for the future. This spring we’ve been working to document emerging trends and unpack their meaning to help set a course forward in a world that is going to look very different, sooner than we might think.