Anti-nuclear advocates raking in $9.3 million per day -Capital Research Center

Every day in America alone, an average of more than $9.3 million falls into the bank accounts of nonprofits and political committees that oppose nuclear power. That’s more than $3.4 billion raked in annually by the enemies of our largest source of electricity that flows without carbon dioxide emissions.

Readers of regime media will be surprised by nearly all of the names on this list. Prominent examples include the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund and the Environmental Defense Fund. There are at least 700 more.

Nearly all of them (and possibly, literally, all of them) also oppose the use of hydrocarbon fuels (oil, coal and natural gas) on the grounds that these energy sources produce greenhouse gas emissions. Adding their opposition to carbon-free nuclear power means Sierra and the rest are opposed to 91 percent of all the energy used in the United States.

These anti-nuclear NGOs are not conservation groups. They are an anti-energy industry.

Another way to understand this is to compare nuclear to the carbon-free electricity sources these groups love to promote: weather dependent wind and solar power.

Way back in the early 1980s nuclear power became our largest source of emissions-free electricity. It has held the title ever since, even though total nuclear energy output today is functionally equal to where it was back in 2005. Nuclear power produced 8.2 quadrillion BTUs of total American energy in 2024. This is more than triple the 2.6 quadrillion BTUs produced by wind and solar energy.And this is despite decades of taxpayer subsidies for wind and solar that now total a dollar sign followed by twelve digits.

Political and legal opposition from the anti-energy NGOs is one of the major reasons total American nuclear power generation hasn’t increased since the early 1990s. During that same period, Chinese nuclear power output has grown from nothing to the second largest in the world.

The culture of opposition to American nuclear power is so pervasive that it even includes left-leaning religious groups, labor unions and civil rights nonprofits. Examples include Church World Service, the California Teachers Association, the NAACP, and American Friends Service Committee.

Here are the 25 largest known opponents of American nuclear energy, as measured by their most recently reported annual revenue:

1. World Wildlife Fund – $374,807,108
2. Environmental Defense Fund – $298,689,286
3. Church World Service – $283,783,530
4. World Resources Institute – $267,358,799
5. California Teachers Association – $238,635,993
6. Natural Resources Defense Council – $204,253,182
7. Sierra Club – $169,031,870
8. Rocky Mountain Institute – $164,733,491
9. League of Conservation Voters – $159,276,886
10. Oxfam America – $75,339,434
11. NAACP – $60,637,077
12. Southern Environmental Law Center – $58,167,590
13. National Parks Conservation Association – $47,686,917
14. GRID Alternatives – $46,882,198
15. Center for Biological Diversity – $45,735,714
16. Conservation Law Foundation – $41,597,517
17. American Friends Service Committee – $41,149,804
18. Center for Popular Democracy – $40,876,653
19. Greenpeace – $38,578,684
20. Carbon Disclosure Project – $38,391,672
21. Earth Island Institute – $30,907,440
22. Movement Strategy Center – $29,557,560
23. Climate Reality Project – $23,780,945
24. CASA – $23,273,411
25. Climate Policy Initiative – $22,537,930

For a complete list, please see the InfluenceWatch profile page for Opposition to Nuclear Energy.