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MORE LINKSThink Progress Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My ResearchOn Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies – launched two advertisements in response to Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.
Tim Lambert When Think Tanks AttackThink tanks vs Open Source The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute’s attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks: CEI Sep 19, 2002, Author: James DeLong Software Wars: Open Source And The New York Times
Impropaganda Review A Rogues Gallery of Industry Front Groups And Anti-Environmental Think TanksCompetitive Enterprise Institute CEI calls itself "a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government..." ...In fact, it [CEI] is an ideologically-driven, well-funded front for corporations opposed to safety and environmental regulations that affect the way they do business...
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RECIPIENT PROFILEEIN: 52-1351785 Competitive Enterprise InstituteWashington, DC 20036 [Note: The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed two IRS 990s with the year 1998 on them. The first covers the period 1/1/1998 through 9/30/1998. The second 990 for 1998 covers the period 10/1/1998 through 9/30/1999. If you see more than one entry for 1998 for various financial reports on this website for the CEI they are NOT duplicates.] CEI calls itself "a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government." The Boston Globe has called it "one of Washington's feistiest think tanks." CEI's commentaries frequently appear in media venues such as ABC's 20/20, American Spectator, Christian Science Monitor, Consumers' Research, Crossfire, Forbes, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, Moneyline, New York Times, Policy Review, PBS, Reader's Digest, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Washington Times. It postures as an advocate of "sound science" in the development of public policy. In fact, it is an ideologically-driven, well-funded front for corporations opposed to safety and environmental regulations that affect the way they do business. (Sourcewatch.org)
Judd Legum ExxonMobil Stops Funding Competitive Enterprise InstituteIn response to an inquiry from the Guardian, Exxon announced that the company “stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute this year.” Also, Exxon promised the Royal Society in July that they would “not be providing any further funding” to groups that distort global warming science.
Greenpeace Greenpeace obtains smoking-gun memo: White House/Exxon linkConservative front group may have thanked White House for help in suing EPADid conservative elements in the White House provoke an Exxon front group to sue EPA to suppress a report on climate change? That's the question that two State Attorney Generals have asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate, after Greenpeace uncovered a routine email in a Freedom of Information Act request. In the email, Myron Ebell of the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute writes to Phil Cooney, a senior official at the White House Council for Environmental Quality. He describes his plans to discredit an EPA study on climate change through a lawsuit. He states the need to: "drive a wedge between the President and those in the Administration who think that they are serving the president's interests by publishing this rubbish." He notes his group is considering a call for the then-head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, to resign, and openly suggests that she'd make an appropriate "fall gal" if the administration is serious about getting back into bed with conservatives opposing action on climate change. His memo to the US government official begins "Thanks for calling and asking for our help." ...The Competitive Enterprise Institute received nearly a half million dollars in funding last year from Exxon/Mobil, the world's largest oil company.
Glenn Adams Did the Bush Administration Tell Think Tank to Sue EPA?AUGUSTA, Maine - Attorneys general in two New England states suggested Monday that the White House is behind a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate a federal report on global warming. Maine Attorney General G. Steven Rowe and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, both Democrats, also asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft for an investigation. Rowe and Blumenthal said they want to know whether White House officials working at the Council on Environmental Quality solicited a lawsuit filed by a conservative Washington think tank to discredit a 2000 report that documents the dangers of global warming. The lawsuit was filed last week by the Competitive Enterprise Institute against the White House Office on Science and Technology. Blumenthal said a June 2002 e-mail between a CEI executive and White House staffers "indicates a secret initiative by the administration to invite and orchestrate a lawsuit against itself to discredit an official United States government report on global warming dangers." Such action, Blumenthal said, could constitute improper and possibly illegal conduct. Rowe said the idea the administration is inviting a lawsuit from a special interest group in order to undermine the federal government’s own work under an international treaty "is very troubling."
Tom Paine Competitive Enterprise Institute does field work for ABC News' John StosselHead of institute looks for "examples of kids who have been 'scared green' by schools teaching doomsday environmentalism in the classroom" The head of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Michael Sanera, sent out an email last March looking for kids who had been "scared" by environmental education: "I have been contacted by ABC News," Sanera wrote..."A producer for John Stossel...needs examples of kids who have been 'scared green' by schools teaching doomsday environmentalism ... (He needs kids and/or parents to appear on camera.) I have some examples, but I need more. Would you send out a notice to your group and ask if they know of some examples. As reported by Brills's Content and others, Stossel is now offically part of the conservative movement, raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year making the rounds of the sponsored conservative movement.
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Geoffrey Lean Bush 'prepares emissions U-turn'President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say.
ThinkProgress.org CEI Scholar: Gore Thinks Climate Change is Caused by ‘Widespread Sin,’ a Sign of ‘the Antichrist’Ian Murray, senior fellow at the Exxon-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes for the National Review on global warming issues. Today, he excerpts some promotional material from a horror movie that he says “mirrors Al Gore’s views” on global warming...Global warming skeptics can’t challenge Al Gore on the substance, so they just smear him personally. This is what is left of the “debate” about climate change.
Tim Lambert CEI exaggerates by a factor of one millionAfter everyone laughed at their first two ads, CEI have made another one. This purports to compare Gore's CO2 emissions from flying around to give his presentation on global warming with that of an average person.
MediaMatters.org PBS' Ifill failed to identify Competitive Enterprise Institute as conservative, energy industry-fundedIn a segment on Al Gore's global warming campaign, PBS' Gwen Ifill noted that "critics have called Gore 'alarmist,' " before airing a clip of an ad produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which she identified only as a "Washington think tank." But Ifill did not mention that CEI is a conservative institution largely funded by the energy industry, which has a financial stake in opposing policies that seek to combat climate change.
Center for American Progress CEI Founder on Global Warming: ‘It Looks Pretty Good…We’re Moving To A More Benign Planet.’Josh Marshall linked to our earlier post on the Competitive Enterprise Institute – a front group funded by big oil – and their attack on Al Gore’s new movie. Josh mentioned he remembered that CEI’s founder, Fred Smith, was on Crossfire years ago talking about how “global warming was actually a good thing because of all the cool new crops we could grow.”
John Eggerton CEI accuses FOX News of liberial bias!The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)...has written to Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes complaining about its planned news special this Sunday night, "The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming."
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