Organizations that market themselves as conservative while pushing left-of-center energy policies with financial support from left-leaning foundations have been showing up in force on Capitol Hill.

The self-described Conservative Energy Network, an umbrella group for environmental activists who favor “clean energy solutions” in the form of taxpayer-funded wind and solar boondoggles, have been working to make inroads with conservative audiences. Most recently, network members took part in a forum on “Real Clean Energy and Climate Change Solutions” held in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on June 19. The forum was organized by another group called “Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions” or CRES, which “received $1 million in total startup funding from center-left groups, including the Advocacy Fund (the advocacy arm of the left-of-center Tides Foundation) and the Trust for Energy Innovation,” according to Influence Watch, a project of the Capital Research Center.