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milloy claims rolled him on green?http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.ImmeltJeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Electric" title="General Electric" style="line-height: 19.2px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">General Electric</a>, "a post he has held since September 7, 2001."Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer."Barron's twice named Mr. Immelt one of the "World's Best CEOs" and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE was named "America's Most Admired Company" in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and one of "The World's Most Respected Companies" in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times."Mr. Immelt is also a member of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Business_Council" title="The Business Council" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Business Council</a> and he is on the board of three non-profit organizations: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Catalyst" title="Catalyst" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Catalyst</a>, devoted to advancing women in business, Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City, and the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_York_Federal_Reserve_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New York Federal Reserve Bank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Federal Reserve Bank</a>."Mr. Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife Andrea have one daughter." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#Future_of_nuclear_power" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Future of nuclear power</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Affiliations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Resources and articles</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Future of nuclear power</h2>In an interview in 2013 Immelt stated:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"The issue is always one of economics and, for right now, nuclear is a sovereign business, a government to government business. It's not really a commercial business. There's a liability regime, there's government approval processes and things like that. To me the future of nuclear is very much about where governments want to spend the money, as it is about safety or technology. 'If governments want to use their own balance sheet to promote nuclear power, it's going to go forward. But if governments don't want to use their own balance sheet to promote nuclear power, it's not going to go forward."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Affiliations</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robin_Hood_Foundation" title="Robin Hood Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robin Hood Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Patron, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum" title="World Sustainable Development Forum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World Sustainable Development Forum</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resources and articles</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related Sourcewatch articles</h3><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ge.com/company/leadership/ceo.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Jeffrey R. Immelt</a>, GE, accessed February 8, 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Glenda Korporaal, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/ge-chief-immelt-cautious-on-nuclear-energy/story-fn91v9q3-1226603809616" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"GE chief Immelt cautious on nuclear energy"</a>, The Australian, March 23, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> World Sustainable Development Forum <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wsdforum.org/patrons.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Patrons</a>, organizational web page, accessed October 21, 2012.</li></ol>The World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF) was established in 2005 to function as a global platform for knowledge sharing and policy discourse aimed at advancing the achievement of the MDGs (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Millennium_Development_Goals" title="Millennium Development Goals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Millennium Development Goals</a>), and promoting global developmental cooperation to expedite the alleviation of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease and correct gender imbalances." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; 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list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#Related_Sourcewatch" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Related Sourcewatch</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Founder members</h2>Accessed October 2012: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/R.K.Pachauri" title="R. K. Pachauri" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">R. K. Pachauri</a>, President</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nitin_Dayalji_Desai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nitin Dayalji Desai (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nitin Dayalji Desai</a>, Vice-President</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sanjivi_Sundar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sanjivi Sundar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sanjivi Sundar</a>, Secretary</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rajiv_Seth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rajiv Seth (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rajiv Seth</a>, Treasurer</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Raghunandan_Singh_Tolia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raghunandan Singh Tolia (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Raghunandan Singh Tolia</a>, Member</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leena_Srivastava&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leena Srivastava (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Leena Srivastava</a>, MemberI</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vijay_Laxman_Kelkar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vijay Laxman Kelkar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vijay Laxman Kelkar</a>, Member</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_D.Sachs" title="Jeffrey D. Sachs" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Jeffrey D. Sachs</a>, Member</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Haruhiko_Kuroda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haruhiko Kuroda (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Haruhiko Kuroda</a>, Member</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Patrons</h2>Accessed October 2012: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lord_John_Browne" title="Lord John Browne" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lord John Browne</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_D.Sachs" title="Jeffrey D. Sachs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeffrey D. Sachs</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Soros" title="George Soros" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Soros</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shoichiro_Toyoda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shoichiro Toyoda (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shoichiro Toyoda</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jens_Stoltenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jens Stoltenberg (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jens Stoltenberg</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bharrat_Jagdeo" title="Bharrat Jagdeo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bharrat Jagdeo</a> , <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Olafur_Ragnar_Grimsson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Olafur Ragnar Grimsson</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tarja_Halonen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tarja Halonen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tarja Halonen</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_R.Immelt" title="Jeffrey R. Immelt" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeffrey R. Immelt</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Haruhiko_Kuroda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haruhiko Kuroda (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Haruhiko Kuroda</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Yukio_Hatoyamaformer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yukio Hatoyamaformer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Yukio Hatoyamaformer</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Abdoulie_Janneh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdoulie Janneh (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abdoulie Janneh</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ricardo_Lagos" title="Ricardo Lagos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ricardo Lagos</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contact</h2>Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wsdforum.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.wsdforum.org</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resources and articles</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related Sourcewatch</h3><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 19.2px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> World Sustainable Development Forum <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wsdforum.org/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Home</a>, organizational web page, accessed October 20, 2012.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Sustainable_Development_Forum#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; 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2. Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric Company. In 2011, President Obama welcomed outsourcing pioneer Jeffrey Immelt to his White House inner circle as chair of a newly created jobs council – a move that was a sharp slap in the face to American workers. Immelt returned the favor by dumping Obama in favor of Mitt Romney in the recent election.

Obviously, supporting disastrous financial deregulation, dodging taxes and helping to destroy American manufacturing has not satisfied Immelt. He’d like to add insult to injury by making sure that people who have been screwed by the reckless activities of short-sighted corporate titans like himself are left to starve in their golden years and go without medical care. And as for the poor, well, couldn’t they be just a little bit poorer? Immelt thinks that would be swell.

After the 2008 crash, the government gave a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802955.html">giant boost </a>[9]to hard-pressed GE Capital, the company’s financing arm, through the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program. GE has also helped itself to enormous taxpayer-funded subsidies, especially in green energy.  And guess how much GE paid in taxes in 2010? Nothing. In fact, using what the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?pagewanted=all">New York Times describes</a> [10] as its “innovative accounting practices,” it claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion!

4/4/14 valid indep news fukushima Mk 1; BO commission=hmn: debunkasaurus  seems to just be parroting milloy?
<ul style="line-height: 19.049999237060547px; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/bullet.gif);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Banned from CNBC by order of the GE CEO. As a featured panelist at the first Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference in March 2008, which also featured General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, Milloy was scheduled for a televised debate with fellow conference panelist and CERES head Mindy Lubber. The debate was to be moderated by CNBC host Melissa Francis. Though Milloy's Free Enterprise Action Fund had vigorously campaigned for almost three years against GE's support for global warming legislation, including at shareholder meetings where Immelt was publicly questioned, Milloy chatted amiably with Immelt for about 45 minutes at a pre-conference cocktail party, during which time Milloy mentioned to Immelt that he was scheduled to appear on GE-owned CNBC during the conference. Before Milloy's CNBC appearance, however, Immelt was grilled by free market supporters during the conference's opening event. Immelt received such a hard time that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, who witnessed the public drubbing, confessed to a Wall Street Journal host that what happened to Immelt had kept him up all night. When Milloy showed up for his debate with Lubber, he was told that he had been replaced by a Wall Street Journal staffer. Though he had appeared on CNBC many times before Immelt's ban, Milloy has not appeared on CNBC since.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Carbon criminal" campaign infuriates a U.S. Senator and touches a CEO. The 111th Congress’ push for cap-and-trade was heavily lobbied by the <a href="http://www.us-cap.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.us-cap.org" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">U.S. Climate Action Partnership</a> – a coalition of big businesses and environmental activist groups. JunkScience.com developed its "<a href="http://junksciencearchive.com/Wanted/index.html" class="external text" title="http://junksciencearchive.com/Wanted/index.html" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Carbon Criminal</a>” campaign featuring “Wanted” posters for 11 of the USCAP member company CEOs. JunkScience.com also commissioned a bobblehead of Exelon Corp. CEO John Rowe as the “Carbon Bandit.” Rowe had publicly boasted of the billions of dollars in windfall profits Exelon anticipated making from cap-and-trade. Rowe was <a href="http://greenhellblog.com/2009/11/02/exelon-ceo-bobbleheaded-at-senate-hearing/" class="external text" title="http://greenhellblog.com/2009/11/02/exelon-ceo-bobbleheaded-at-senate-hearing/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">presented</a> with the <a href="http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/rowe-bobblehead-092309.jpg" class="external text" title="http://greenhellblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/rowe-bobblehead-092309.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">bobblehead</a> after his testimony before the Senate for Environment and Public Works. Weeks later, EPW Chairman Barbara Boxer <a href="http://greenhellblog.com/2009/12/22/sen-boxer-condemns-junksciences-carbon-criminal-posters/" class="external text" title="http://greenhellblog.com/2009/12/22/sen-boxer-condemns-junksciences-carbon-criminal-posters/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">attacked</a> JunkScience.com’s “Carbon Criminal” campaign in a December 14, 2009 speech on the Senate floor. During a March speech (<a href="http://eenews.net/tv/video_guide/1293" class="external text" title="http://eenews.net/tv/video_guide/1293" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">video</a>/<a href="http://eenews.net/tv/transcript/1293" class="external text" title="http://eenews.net/tv/transcript/1293" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">transcript</a>) at the American Enterprise Institute in which he surprisingly called for the 112th Congress to take no action on energy, Rowe set his bobblehead on the speaker’s podium, and waved it around calling it a “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB37dxNXrE0" class="external text" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB37dxNXrE0" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">cherished memento</a>.” Did the bobblehead help Rowe re-think his cap-and-trade rentseeking? Only the Carbon Bandit knows.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GE CEO admits error in going green. Through the Free Enterprise Action Fund, Milloy launched a six-year long campaign against General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt's decision to lobby for climate legislation. On May 3, 2011, Immelt publicly acknowledged that going "green" was a mistake and that he would stop lobbying for comprehensive climate and energy legislation. Milloy's campaign is described in this Investor's Business Daily <a href="http://junkscience.com/2011/05/08/ges-immelt-returns-focus-to-green-cash/" class="external text" title="http://junkscience.com/2011/05/08/ges-immelt-returns-focus-to-green-cash/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">op-ed</a>.</li></ul><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>link is not to IBD but to milloy:</div><div>
</div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GE’s Immelt Returns Focus To Green Cash</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Posted on <a href="http://junkscience.com/2011/05/08/ges-immelt-returns-focus-to-green-cash/" title="10:57 am" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 8, 2011</a> by <a class="url fn n" href="http://junkscience.com/author/greenhellblog/" title="View all posts by JunkScience.com" rel="author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JunkScience.com</a> | <a href="http://junkscience.com/2011/05/08/ges-immelt-returns-focus-to-green-cash/#comments" title="Comment on GE’s Immelt Returns Focus To Green Cash" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Comments</a></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 23.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Steve Milloy
May 7, 2011, <a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/571432/201105061854/GEs-Immelt-Returns-Focus-To-Green-Cash.htm" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investor’s Business Daily</a>General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt hasn’t yet seen the light on climate science, but apparently he has at last felt the heat for lobbying for cap-and-trade.Immelt last week announced that he was giving up his green energy lobbying crusade and getting back to the business of creating wealth at the struggling GE.“If I had one thing to do over again, I would not have talked so much about green,” he told a Massachusetts Institute of Technology audience.“Even though I believe in global warming and I believe in the science … it just took on a connotation that was too elitist.“It was too precious, and it let opponents think that if you had a green initiative, you didn’t care about jobs. I’m a businessman. That’s all I care about, is jobs … I’m kind of over the stage of arguing for a comprehensive energy policy. I’m back to keeping my head down and working.”The story begins precisely six years ago when Immelt announced GE’s ecomagination initiative, a marketing and lobbying campaign to push so-called “clean” technologies, such as wind turbines, solar and other politically correct technology. I had just co-launched the Free Enterprise Action Fund, an activist mutual fund initially intended to help CEOs defend their companies against the anti-business activists that masquerade as shareholders.A few days later, right before our fund’s debut at the JPM Morgan Chase shareholder meeting, I was sitting in a Chicago hotel with my partner heatedly discussing the GE situation. His initial reaction was to support Immelt, figuring that Immelt was simply being a good capitalist who just wanted to sell more products. I argued that GE’s participation in climate scaremongering would ultimately be economically disastrous for everyone, including GE itself.Then Immelt really crossed the line, announcing in 2006 that GE had joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of radical green groups and other businesses formed to lobby for comprehensive climate and energy legislation such as cap-and-trade.We filed a novel shareholder resolution with GE asking the company to justify its lobbying for junk science-based and economy-killing carbon caps. GE tried and failed to get the Securities and Exchange Commission to block our proposal from its proxy statement, as it did for the next several years. Each time, though, we prevailed.The resolution gave us status and a public platform for challenging Immelt and drawing attention to the wrong done to shareholders by his carbon-cap lobbying. Thomas Edison innovated for profits, we maintained, while Immelt went to lobby the government for them.Our continued public questioning of Immelt reached a climax of sorts at a March 2008 environmental business conference. After tough questioning from free-market advocates — a confrontation so tense that then-Walmart CEO Lee Scott remarked it had kept him up that night — Immelt retaliated by canceling my scheduled next-morning appearance on GE-owned CNBC. I haven’t been on CNBC since.Immelt remained undeterred and nearly achieved his goal with the June 2009 passage of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. But that was his high water mark — an “achievement” GE used to solicit political contributions from its employees a month later.A GE executive wrote in the solicitation, “The intersection between GE’s interests and government action is clearer than ever … We must also make sure that candidates who share GE’s values and goals get elected to office …“On climate change, we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses.”But by the time of the memo, the air was already rushing out of the cap-and-trade souffle. Today, cap-and-tax is universally acknowledged as dead.The politically flexible Immelt famously remarked, “We’re all Democrats now,” after President Obama’s election. Now with a budget crisis and a Republican-controlled House, the political winds have again shifted dramatically in Washington — even threatening existing taxpayer subsidies and government programs for “clean energy.”Immelt has sensed this and has tacked accordingly. But one wonders how long the back-to-business Immelt will stay as the chair of Obama’s Competitiveness Council. Certainly long-frustrated GE shareholders would rather have him give up his day job.• Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Hell-Environmentalists-Plan-Ruin/dp/1596985852" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them</a>” (Regnery 2009).</div></div><div>=</div>