He identified himself as being with a group that is affiliated with America Rising Squared. In April, Politico and The Hill reported that America Rising Squared, an arm of the Republican opposition research group America Rising, had decided to go after me and Tom Steyer, another prominent environmentalist, with a campaign on a scale previously reserved for presidential candidates. They aren’t interested in my arguments; instead, these videos, usually wordless, are simply posted on Twitter, almost always with music. In one series, my groceries are being packed into plastic bags, as I’d forgotten to bring cloth ones. From Honduras to the Philippines, in the last two years, activists have been assassinated after getting in the way of megaprojects.

Source: New York Times August 05, 2016 16:30 UTC