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new trend is sweeping conservative America. It’s called the anti-ESG movement, or anti-”woke capitalism” movement, and it’s one of the biggest emerging barriers to corporate action on climate change.

Anti-ESG proponents want to stop corporations from following environmentally and socially conscious investing principles, commonly referred to as Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) principles. They say companies are prioritizing “left-wing” goals over the financial interests of businesses and their employees, and should be prevented by law from doing so.

This movement has gained a massive following in the last six months. Elon Musk supports it, as do billionaire investors Peter Thiel and Bill Ackman, who are are backing a new financial firm dedicated to anti-ESG investing. Banning “woke investing” is also one of the biggest recent priorities of Leonard A. Leo, the prominent conservative legal activist who runs one of the “best-funded and most sophisticated operations in American politics,” according to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday. In the past year, 17 states have proposed or adopted legislation seeking to bar state investments in “woke” companies[twt]

the anti-ESG movement frames itself as a strictly financial enterprise. Its proponents insist it’s not political movement. They’re simply trying to get politics out of the financial system so people can make the most money as possible.

But the anti-ESG movement is, at its core, a lobbying effort created by climate deniers to make money for fossil fuel companies. It did not originate with financial experts or economists, but with two prominent industry operatives who’ve spent decades spreading disinformation about the human health risks of fossil fuels and cigarettes.

These former coal and tobacco operatives first started their movement to ban socially conscious investing in 2004. Only now, nearly two decades later, have they been able to get mainstream conservative America on board.

The anti-ESG movement is the climate denial movement

Before the anti-ESG movement was the anti-ESG movement, it was the anti-CSR movement, the acronym standing for Corporate Social Responsibility. The two leaders of the anti-CSR movement were Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli.

Milloy is a former coal company executive and paid advocate for Phillip Morris and ExxonMobil. His career focus is developing communication strategies to deny or downplay the risks of tobacco and fossil fuel pollution. He is among the most prominent people “clouding the climate change debate,” according to theThe Washington Post.

Borelli is “one of the best-known of the science corrupters who worked for the tobacco industry,” according to The Center for Media and Democracy. In the 90s, while working for Phillip Morris, he led the tobacco industry’s efforts to team up with other polluting industries—like coal and chemicals—to promote anti-science rhetoric. “The climate denial movement is a direct result of these coalitions,” according to CMD. (He now promotes climate denial).

In 2004, Milloy and Borelli formed a non-profit called the Free Enterprise Education Institute. The non-profit’s purpose, according to its tax forms, was to “educate the public about the American system of free enterprise” by “maintaining a website about its research.”

The website they launched was called CSRwatch.com, and was marketed as a news destination for anyone opposed to “corporate social responsibility.” CSRwatch primarily aggregated news articles attacking corporations that had climate change and other socially conscious policies, like refusing to invest in child labor.

A February 16, 2006 screenshot of CSRwatch.com. Source: Wayback Machine.

One article posted to CSRwatch in 2006, for example, slammed corporations that refuse to invest in overseas sweatshops, saying they deprive children in developing countries of good paying jobs. "They try to shut down so-called sweatshops as though no jobs [are] better than what they consider to be low quality jobs, as though working as a 12-year-old beggar, thief or prostitute is better than working in a garment or shoe factory,” it read.

The article also slammed pro-indigenous corporate policies. "I would love to meet just one corporate social responsibility activist … who's willing to go native for even one month and live in a state-of-the-art mud hut in malaria-infested rural Africa under the indigenous conditions they extol and perpetuate,"it read.

CSRWatch was directly funded by the fossil fuel industry. From 2004 to 2005, ExxonMobil gave the Free Enterprise Education Institute $80,000. The non-profit also received grants from a Koch family charity foundation, DonorsTrust, and The Randolph Foundation, all conservative groups with ties to fossil fuels.

The original anti-ESG investing movement was not so great at investing

CSRWatch was not Borelli and Milloy’s only effort to push back against ESG investing in the mid-2000s. They also set up a mutual fund called the The Free Enterprise Action Fund, designed to show that being anti-woke was also good business.

The fund sought to achieve long-term investment returns “while aggressively challenging CEOs who use shareholder assets to advance the liberal political agenda.” But, perhaps because neither Borelli nor Milloy had any experience managing money professionally, the fund didn’t do very well, according to a 2006 Slate piece:

Judging by the early returns, these free-marketers are failing the test of the marketplace. The fund has attracted a paltry $5.2 million in assets as of March 31. Returns have lagged the S&P 500 badly. In its first 10 months in business, the fund returned 2.32 percent while the S&P 500 rose 4.72 percent.

Of course, the fund’s poor performance could also simply have been explained by the fact that it’s bad business to ignore environmental and social risk factors. Indeed, this is why the bulk of the financial and corporate worlds don’t agree with the anti-ESG movement. They know that ESG investing, particularly investing with climate change risk in mind, is not ideological. It’s merely the smartest long-term financial decision.

The anti-ESG movement doesn’t agree with this assessment for one reason, and one reason only: They’re climate deniers. And the fact that they’re climate deniers is not a coincidence. That is what the fossil fuel industry intended.

The new anti-ESG movement: same folks, different face

The original anti-ESG movement eventually appeared to fizzle. CSRwatch.com stopped being updated in late 2007 and the domain expired in 2008. Shortly after, The Free Enterprise Action Fund was merged into a separate mutual fund that had nothing to do with anti-ESG advocacy.

The Free Enterprise Education Institute was then acquired by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a much larger right-wing think tank funded by some of the similar players, including ExxonMobil. The NCPPR announced that Milloy and Borelli would remain at the head of the project, which would from then on be called the Free Enterprise Project.

At the time, Borelli said the merger would “significantly enhance our ability to educate the public on emerging threats to our free enterprise system.” And though it took about 14 years, it appears Borelli was correct.

The new anti-ESG financial firm backed by Peter Thiel and Bill Ackman, Strive Asset Management, is being led by Justin Danhof, the former executive Vice President of the NCPPR. In a recent interview with the Capitol Account newsletter,Danhof explained his qualifications: “I ran a program called the Free Enterprise Project,” he said. “We were really at the beginning of what you would call any sort of pushback against ESG, woke capital — before it was even a term.”

It may be more sophisticated today, but the anti-ESG movement is the same as it ever was: a political effort to delay climate action led by fossil fuel industry propagandists. It follows the classic playbook of climate disinformationby trying to “both sides” the idea of climate risk. But Witold Henisz, the director of the Wharton School’s ESG program, put it best: “Climate risk is investment risk. There is no credible other side, only an ideological opposition cynically seeking a wedge issue for upcoming political campaigns.”

“Proponents of climate science and more sustainable investing need to plan and execute their counterattack,” he added. “Silence in the face of such an attack is complicity. Which side are you on?”

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dr. Tom Borelli Ph.D. had a doctorate in biochemistry from the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. He is one of the best-known of the science corrupters who worked for the tobacco industry, mainly because of his roles with what became the 'Science Issues' division of Philip Morris which was, for many years, at the center of industry attempts to delay any legislation on passive smoking (ETS). One of his more notorious projects was to run a scam using the part-finished research of Luis Varela, a Yale PhD student who died unexpectedly in February 1990. This became known as the Varela Study project.

Before working for Philip Morris, Borelli was a technical specialist for the Products Safety and External Technical Affairs Division of General Foods World Wide [Note: General Foods was bought by Philip Morris.]. He also worked as a science consultant for the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. (DOCS 000033)

He became the manager of Philip Morris Corporate Scientific Affairs Department in January 1989. In this position he became one of the chief architects of most of the company's (and therefore the industry's) main operations which aimed to confuse not only smoking and health research, but also to discredit science in general -- in both general terms (ridiculing epidemiology, etc) and specific scientists and their findings. The tobacco archives have thousands of documents taken from Philip Morris files, which show how destructive these malicious projects were to anti-smoking activism and legislation -- and how, by widening out their attacks on science in general, they were able to form coalitions with other industries withpoisoning and polluting problems (coal, nuclear energy, chemicals, freon, formaldehyde). The climate denial movement is a direct result of these coalitions.

The signing of the Master Settlement Agreement between the States Attorneys General (followed by the Clinton Presidency) and the American tobacco companies led to the slow release of 14 million file documents. This subsequently exposed the corporate-driven Machaevellian activities of tobacco industry scientist as lobbyists and designers of scams to distort scientific fundings. Borelli transferred to work for Philip Morris Corporate Services, Inc. in Brussels (probably to get him out of reach of American lawyers). (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

Junk-science, funds-management business

Later Borelli joined forces with the industry's notorious junk-science promoter, Steve Milloy (of TASSC and Fox News) and they went into the funds management business. Milloy was one of the key science lobbyists in America who was vocal (and developed celebrity status) in dismissing the dangers of passive smoking and he ridiculed the idea of climate change. Borelli had run him as an undercover tobacco industry supporter during his many years with Philip Morris.

In November 2010, the records show that Tom Borelli was a managing partner with Action Fund Management, an investment advisory firm, and a portfolio manager for the Free Enterprise Action Fund.[1] He was also still listed as a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C.[2]

As of 2012 Borelli was working at the right-wing think tank FreedomWorks as a Senior Fellow and an "expert" on the coal industry.[3]

Quick overview of his positions

1978 Nov 6 -1988 Dec 31 "Product Safety & External Technical Affairs" General Foods Worldwide (aka Technical Specialist, Kraft Foods North America)1988 June 1 Senior VP Scientific Issues at PM Corporate1989 Jan 1 - 1990 Oct 31 Manager, Scientific Issues, Philip Morris USA1990 Jan 1 - 1992 Oct 14 Director, Scientific Issues, Philip Morris USA1992 Oct 15 - 1996 Oct 30 Director, Science & Environmental Policy, Philip Morris Management Corporation1996 Nov 1 - 2001 Feb 1 Director, Science &. Policy Issues, Philip Morris Management Corporation2001 Feb 2 - Aug ??? Director, Legislative Policy & Issues, Philip Morris Management Corporation

Articles by Thomas Borelli

The Anti-Capitalism Virus, National Policy Analysis, Feb. 2006 (a publication of the National Center for Public Policy Research)

Documents & Timelines

1983 Listed as a researcher into Double-stranded RNA in study with JM Wu of NY Medical College (also twice in 1985). This is during his work at Kraft. Published in Biochemisty International. [2]

1988 Feb 22 - 24 The Toxicology Forum has an early mention of Tom Borelli, who later became the notorious science confuser at Philip Morris USA. He is listed as "Product Safety & External Technical Affairs, General Foods Worldwide" (General Foods was then in the process of being acquired by Philip Morris) [3]

1989 Jan 1Began working with Philip Morris as Manager of Scientific Affairs. [Note: This is not a research or R&D position (they are separate entities) -- Borelli was hired to manage of scientific counter-measures ... later termed "Scientific Issues Management".]

1989 Nov 27 A brief internal email from Tom Borelli (then Manager of Corporate Scientific Affairs for Philip Morris) to his superior Jack Nelson (Mgr, Public Affairs Research and Analysis) relates Philip Morris's early efforts to influence a scientific meeting discussing secondhand smoke held by the Toxicology Forum. [Note: ETS=environmental tobacco smoke]. Borelli had been hired to help the company plan ways to influence this type of scientific group.

This email shows that the company already had a reputation for science distortion and manipulation. Borelli describes the anger expressed by a National Cancer Institute (NCI) attendee in having Borelli/PM's attendance at the ETS session of the Toxicology Forum. His contact at the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) would have been Alex Malaspina who also worked for Coca Cola -- and who served the tobacco industry faithfully for many years.

My contact at the ILSI told me that the person from the NCI was not pleased with the Toxicology Forum. Unfortunately, the NCI representative did not stop there but went on to say that if the tox forum allows Phillip Morris to become a member, the NCI will remove itself from the advisory committee. It was also mentioned that if I want a career in the science/health issues, I should consider who I work for.

Thus if everything remains the same the tox(icology) forum is a one shot deal and I get blacklisted. I think it is time to move with the PM Co., Inc strategy for sponsorship of outside groups (remember the proposal I wrote).

Borelli discusses how PM could continue to try and influence this group, and proposes funneling sponsorship money through a PM subsidiary as a way to make it financially essential for the group to continue working with PM:

Of course that would raise the stakes of forcing these groups to accept PM and I guess they could choose to keep us out. But then they go broke. The only other option is to funnel money through KGF [Kraft General Foods, a PM subsidiary] but then we lose control of the issues.

It turns out that as a result of the KGF merger (with Philip Morris), ILSI will be losing the GF (General Foods) share. ILSI was thinking that we should make KGF International a member, so their funds remain the same.[4]

He also wanted them to make a donation to the New York Medical College, Department of Biochemistry. He had a pending appointment here as an "adjunct professor" -- and the cash grant would help make it real.

1990 Jan 9 This is a Tom Borelli planning list for activities to be developed during 1990. The first page is missing, the rest are out of order, and some extra material has been inserted, but it gives a good overview of the thinking of Philip Morris executives on the corruption of science and the manipulation of scientific organisations.[5] {MUST READ} Also the later revision - cut back to 4 pages. [6] See Borelli's original handnote draft for these documents [7]

1991 Dec 3 Robert A Pages writes to Steve Parrish and Tom Borelli about the Gori Confounders Proposal. Clausen Ely a lawyer at Covington & Burling has copied them in on the Gio B Gori proposal for a $1.3 million study into possible 'confounders' in anti-smoking epidemiological studies. They are hoping to find points to attack.

In comparison with what was discussed with Borelli and me at our meeting with Gori/Proctor on Oct 15th, the only new things here are: l) the cost estimate ranges,- and 2) the acknowledgement of the active participation by Peter N Lee. Neither of these is surprising, although $1.3m makes you pay attention.

The bottom line still is: the study, if done right, is worth doing.

The " if done right" according to this proposal depends upon our confidence in the team of Gori/Lee/Proctor and Gori's connection with 'EQUIFAX' -- the company that would actually conduct the survey. I have no reason to doubt their ability to oversee the work.

I'm not totally comfortable with signing up for a study which could cost "as little" as $700K or as much as $I.3m -- to be determined along the way -- but 1 can't think of a good alternative.

One thing that might make me a little happier is if they already had their questionnaire in hand, but the point Borelli raised on Oct I5th also remains to be addressed: Is there a way that this study could be done to yield a more 'credible' publication?

Presumably, we're looking at Gori and Lee (?}. Farming out the cotinine analyses to Neal Benowitz is a nice touch, but it won't make him a coauthor.

O.K. Where does all this leave us? WE SHOULD GET ON WITH IT!

It'll probably take months to get all the interested companies 'on board' anyway. Let's do it while we still have the money and before we think of more stupid things to spend it on. [8]

Note: [Peter N Lee was a well-known and well-used British statistician who could produce any result the companies desired. Gio B Gori was a corrupt scientist who had previously been dismissed by the National Cancer Institute after running an early tobacco study with funding from the industry. (known as the Tobacco Working Group.)]It is difficult to find a more damning expose of the way in which the tobacco industry conducted supposedly scientific research -- or more openly condemnatory of the so-called scientists Gori/Proctor/Lee who were being given the funds to conduct this purely propaganda exercise. Gori and Lee were over-used by this time, and their links to the tobacco industry were becoming obvious.]

1996 Mar 14 Matt Swetonic is memoing Tom Borelli at Philip Morris (with a CC to Jim Wieghart).

Subject: Tobacco Industry Funded Research in Medical Journals.

He is recommending Rick Weiss who has written for the Washington Post as a "reporter who we may be able to interest in doing a major piece on medical journals that refuse to publish research funded by the tobacco industry." He also suggests Marcia Angell as a possibility.

"In a Frontline show in late February on breast implants, Marcia Angell of the New England Journal of Medicine dismissed as nonsense the notion that industry funding taints medical research. She pointed out that half of all medical research is funded by industry, and to disregared it "would decimate the science in this country." We know from an editorial she wrote a few years ago that she is also skeptical of the research linking ETS to disease."

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Anti-regulatory and Climate activism

2005 Together with Steven J. Milloy, Borelli founded the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund which aimed to promote an anti-regulatory agenda. in 2005. Milloy left the organization and, on July 20, 2009, the Free Enterprise Action Fund merged with the Congressional Effect Fund. Borelli then became a portfolio manager for the Congressional Effect Fund. [4]

Borelli has been an activist at shareholder meetings opposing company involvement in climate change legislation. His targets have included General Electric, PG&E, Dow Chemical, Caterpillar, John Deere, and Duke Energy.

References

  1. ↑ Biography: Dr. Thomas J. Borelli, Property Rights Foundation of America, accessed November 29, 2010
  2. ↑ Kate Sheppard, "Thank You for Global Warming," Mother Jones, November 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Kevin Grandia, "FreedomWorks' Pro-Coal Lobbyist Tom Borelli is Former Professional Pro-Tobacco Scientist," Desmogblog, Dec 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ [1] "The Free Enterprise Action Fund Merged with the Congressional Effect Fund on July 20, 2009,"

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Tom Borelli spent much of last decade trying to steer companies away from big government. He co-founded the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund that bought stocks in companies for the sake of filing shareholder motions. The fund has typically targeted corporate execs who embraced big government policies that would reduce profits, such as members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership supporting federal climate legislation that would raise taxes on energy companies.

But lately, Borelli has targeted companies who are cozying up to government to increase their profits -- such as Boeing designing export legislation that improves their lot and tax laws that squeeze out competition for H&R Block.

When the Obama administration issued new IRS rules in early 2010, analysts at UBS said the regulations would "help Block by ... add[ing] barriers to entry (or continuation) for small preparers, [and] provid[ing] revenue as Block may sell their continuing education and competency tests to others."

It is these arrangements -- in which the industry loses, but one company wins, or a few big companies win -- that free-marketeers should pay more attention to.

While Borelli's first trigger for a complaint was an executive selling out his shareholders, Borelli's second trigger is far loftier. It is, in his own words: "Is this ultimately good for the free market? Is this ultimately good for liberty?"

Borelli has given up the shareholder suits -- executives have too much power to quash them -- but he's still trying to pry corporations away from government. His new tactic: "Shaming." This can move businesses, because they care about their "billion-dollar brands being tarnished," Borelli argues.

Liberal groups try to impose a reputation cost on companies that don't protect the environment, hire enough women, or pay high enough wages. Conservatives can create a reputation cost for companies that embrace big government.

"I want to do business with a bank that acts on principle."

To some extent, Borelli argues, it's working: "If I go to a Tea Party rally, all I have to do is mention General Electric, and there are audible boos."

The Rickety Big-Government Bandwagon

Another way for free-marketeers to talk businessmen out of seeking profit (besides name and shame) might be to persuade them that getting into bed with Washington often ends messily.....

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/22/al-gore-accused-of-abusing-his-spot-on-apple-s-board-for-personal-gain.html

gary rivlin

Nine years ago, Al Gore, unemployed after eight years as vice president and after nearly becoming president, took a position on the board of directors of Apple. The gig pays $50,000 annually (more than the average American earns in a year) for maybe a couple of weeks' worth of work. But it’s the stock-option grants each director receives that make the arrangement so lucrative.

In the last few years alone, Gore has cashed out more than $2 million in Apple stock options he's been awarded for serving as a company director since 2003. And he's sitting on tens of millions of dollars more in Apple stock, all for attending a few meetings a year.

By contrast, Foxconn, the infamous Apple supplier, announced in mid-February that it was boosting worker salaries at its Chinese factories by 16 to 25 percent—so now the average worker would earn just under $5,000 a year.

Gore promises to be a topic of debate when shareholders gather in Cupertino on Thursday for Apple’s annual meeting. The issue, however, won’t be his compensation as an Apple board member or the atrocious, shameful treatment of those assembling Apple products on the former vice president’s watch.

Instead, Apple shareholders are being asked to consider a resolution sponsored by a conservative, D.C.-based think tank that is accusing the company of letting Gore manipulate its policies for his own personal gain. The initiative is being championed by Tom Borelli, who wears the title of Free Enterprise Project Director at the National Center for Public Policy Research.

Gore’s supposed crime? Near the end of 2009, Apple resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the chamber’s high-profile opposition to “cap and trade” legislation then being debated in Congress—legislation that would have used economic incentives to cap carbon emissions. The chamber also fought the EPA’s efforts to (finally) limit greenhouse gases and ran a series of ads questioning the science behind global warming.

One might extol Apple for acting in the fashion of a responsible corporate citizen with its decision. It wasn’t about profits but principles. But Apple’s lack of a clear economic motive is precisely what drives Borelli to see darker motives in Apple’s decision to quit the chamber. Gore has personally invested in a range of clean technologies. He’s a partner in the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he is part of a team in search of green investments that will earn him and his partners riches that dwarf his compensation as an Apple director.

And cap-and-trade, while irrelevant to Apple’s bottom line, would help Gore’s. “The question is why Apple is applying pressure on an issue that it has no business interest in,” Borelli says. The answer: “Apple doesn’t have a financial interest in climate-change regulations, but Al Gore does.”

Borelli’s resolution, one of four on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, asks shareholders to request that the company generate a “conflict of interest report” over a policy “developed to personally benefit a board member.”[scam picked up by breakthru?]

“Shareholders have a right to know if Apple’s involvement in greenhouse gas regulations is being driven by Gore’s personal interests,” Borelli argues in the “supporting statement” that accompanies his proposal.

In its response to Borelli, Apple notes that it “resigned its membership because the Chamber’s position on climate change differed so sharply with the company’s.” It might also have noted that Nike resigned from the chamber’s board of directors over its global-warming policies, and that General Electric, Alcoa, Johnson & Johnson, Dow, and Microsoft were among the businesses criticizing the chamber over its stance. Presumably, Gore’s influence does not reach into the executive suites of those companies. Apple also notes that the decision hasn’t exactly hurt its bottom line, either—an understatement for a company that earned $26 billion in profits in 2011, compared with $8 billion in 2009, the year it cut its ties with the chamber.

“This is really about transparency and accountability,” Borelli said on Wednesday, a few hours before boarding a plane west to watch the vote over his initiative. There’s no doubt that Apple (like many publicly traded companies) can do a much better job on that front. But Footnoted.com, a financial blog known for reading the fine print of arcane documents, notes the irony of that argument being raised by Borelli’s group.

The people at the National Center for Public Policy Research are hardly ones for talking about transparency and accountability. “Charity Navigator gives it low marks on that front,” Footnoted blogger Theo Francis writes, “criticizing it in part for not posting the names of its board members or its audited financial statements on its website.”

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So why, then, does the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the nation's most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb global warming?ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was earmarked for "global climate outreach"),

would obviously like to avoid any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around? In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To those familiar withCORE's recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil comes as no surprise. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE's historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting.) [...]

Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser, Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as "one of America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations" and called for greater funding for the group.

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seeAA wife dineen who accused BO of putting us all on plantation? google suggests uncle tom, so someone is on to her.

big on fox, beck, food stamp nation?

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hope: defectors

Large institutional museums have a history of receiving funding from those who might have an interest in slanting how they cover climate issues. Oil company BP, for instance, is a corporate sponsor at Chicago’s venerable Museum of Science and Industry, whose exhibits have long promoted a cheerful upbeat “better living through science” approach and whose interactive coal mine exhibit has been one of its major attractions since 1933.

But BP is doing a little image scrubbing of its own. It announced Monday that it has dropped its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the rightwing climate denying group that is heavily funded by—you guessed it!—the Koch brothers. BP gave no reason for dropping its membership, but it follows in the footsteps of Walmart, Amazon, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola Co., Best Buy, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, eBay, Wells-Fargo and dozens of others that have dropped their ALEC membership in response to pressure from activist groups.

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from stoner txt:

Amy Moritz-->Ridenour harv public health phd w/ sugar king Stare.

crypto center for env justice, screws over black ppl and native americans, (rolls to EEI http://www.nationalcenter.org/eptf.html) Pjt 21 gets busted when pillbury doughboy Almasi has to stand in when front tom Mychal Massie gets flat tire; rentanegro for racist conf of O'Keefe pal marcus karate chop; Amy R heavily involved in Abramoff network/scams; funded the famous Scotland golf trip to meet Thatcher (or similar one).  amy ran against jack and GNorquist, got her to drop out in return for exec dir title, he spent 10K on election?[college republicans?]

K str gang  Adam Kidan went to jail for fraud, as did jack, bought 90% stake but never paid, boulis still wanted to run it?

adam kidan felt in danger, spent 200K to mob for security? sued Gus Boulis, SunCruz, told Ferrari to kill Boulis?

Evil b/c NCPPR will jump in when others bail, eg voter ID, chides defectors.  Linked to Borelli who tried to hijack/staunch shareholder revolts: rear guard action: avant derierre (thank tom l gaarde)

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ncppr Free Enterprise Pjt does same anti-SCR:

http://www.nationalcenter.org/fep.html

in fact links to borelli videos eg gore apple

run by http://www.nationalcenter.org/bios/danhof.html

Thank You for Global Warming

A former Phillip Morris exec wages a lonely war on the corporations tackling climate change.

By Kate Sheppard | Mon Nov. 22, 2010

The executives of Duke Energy are used to protesters showing up at shareholder meetings. As one of the nation's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, the company has long been a target for enviros who demand that it stop blowing up mountains to get coal, burning the stuff, and warming the planet in the process. But the execs were befuddled last May when a man named Tom Borelli stood up at their annual shindig to demand precisely the opposite.

The company, Borelli insisted, should make a detailed accounting of the resources it has wasted lobbying for climate-change regulations—Duke CEO Jim Rogers had spent too much time trying to strike "a deal with the government devil" and "chasing legislative windmills," he said.

Company flacks knew how to deal with lefty protesters, but Borelli and his wife, Deneen, were unfamiliar turf. "We were standing there scratching our heads," recalls spokesman Tom Sheil. "This isn't the way it's supposed to be."

Duke has indeed been a major player in the US Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of corporations and green groups put together in 2007 to build momentum for a cap-and-trade bill. It helped shape the climate-and-energy bill that passed the House last year before faltering in the Senate. And Rogers, a charismatic southerner, has acquired a rep in DC as an unexpected champion of climate policies.

Borelli, for his part, has spent the past five years as a shareholder activist, buying small quantities of stock for the explicit purpose of making a fuss at shareholders meetings, mostly over companies' efforts to curb global warming, which he argues "isn't out of line with normal cycles in the environment." Other Borelli targets have includedGeneral Electric, PG&E, Dow Chemical, Caterpillar, and John Deere.

Borelli's former role as a tobacco scientist at Phillip Morris makes him somewhat of a pioneer in the field of corporate-sponsored denial. As PM's director of corporate scientific affairs during the 1990s, he worked to discredit studies indicating thatsecondhand smoke was unhealthy—a fact you won't find in his online bio.

In 2005, with global warming gaining political currency, Borelli hooked up with Steve Milloy, a well-known climate-change denier, Fox News commentator, and founder of JunkScience.com. Together, they founded the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund whose investments were designed to further their anti-regulatory agenda. Early on, the ExxonMobil Foundation contributed at least $70,000 to help the pair, to—in the words of their now-defunct website— "keep big businesses from becoming wholly-owned subsidiaries of Marxist-Socialism, Inc."

Milloy moved on after a few years, leaving Borelli to carry the torch.These days, Borelli is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, a minor DC think tank best known for its ties to disgraced lobbyist and former board member Jack Abramoff. (NCPPR was the entity that sponsored then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's infamous Scotland golf junket in 2000.) Borelli won't say who pays his substantial travel bills—only that his work is funded by individual donations from "libertarians, free-market conservatives."

Which is odd, since the corporations arguing for cap-and-trade aren't doing it to be good citizens. They simply believe they have a better chance of gaming Congress than they do of gaming the Environmental Protection Agency, which now has the authority to regulate CO2 as an air pollutant.Some companies even stand to profit from caps on carbon emissions: GE, for one, brought in $18 billion in revenue last year from clean energy and efficiency technologies. "Mr. Borelli, as a shareowner, is welcome to attend our shareowner meetings," notes company spokesman Peter O'Toole. "But these kinds of proposals are not of interest to nearly all GE shareowners."

It might seem contradictory for a free-enterprise crusader to protest policies that companies have deemed in their business interest, but Borelli says he doesn't consider it free enterprise when a company creates demand by pushing climate-change laws. In any case, he aims to "make the CEO feel uncomfortable."

In practice, Borelli is advocating a strategy that progressives have used to great effect. "When the left looks at a corporation, they see an institution of power. When the right looks at a corporation, they see an institution of investment and finance," he says. "The right generally tends not to think of corporations as a power structure to get a political goal."

True enough. The tactic first emerged in 1971, when the Episcopal Church bought up shares to shame companies that were doing business with South Africa—part of a larger pressure campaign that convinced corporate America to divest from the apartheid regime. This success inspired pension funds and others to apply their shareholder clout, pushing for firms to do the right thing on a host of issues—AIDS, tobacco, climate change.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility [1], a coalition of religious interests, has filed at least 282 activist resolutions [2] this year, many aimed at curbing emissions. So it's no surprise that its reps have run into Borelli at shareholder meetings. "He used the tool we had against what we were doing," says Sister Pat Daly, an ICCR climate leader who has taken on the likes of Ford, GM, GE, and ExxonMobil.

But where the ICCR garners respect from many executives, Borelli's targets dismiss him as a pest. At a 2006 Goldman Sachs meeting, one of his co-presenters, Peter Flaherty, leaped over a security barrier to take control ofthen-CEO Henry Paulson's microphone and chastise him for his "environmental activism." The meeting's Q&A period, according to the Free Enterprise Action Fund's website, "was dominated by Borelli's extended colloquy with Paulson about the Chilean land deal and Nature Conservancy chairmanship."

All the drama hasn't amounted to much. GE shareholders, for instance, have repeatedly slapped down Borelli's proposals. Only 7 percent supported his 2006 bid to make the company produce a "global warming report." He fared slightly worse the next year. By 2008, support for his proposal had dropped below 4 percent.

Given Borelli's record of failure as a shareholder activist, he would seem to be little more than a harmless curiosity. But Kert Davies, a Greenpeace research director and head of the ExxonSecrets campaign, which documents the funding of climate-change denial by corporations, isn't so ready to laugh him off. "Borelli represents a class of corporate influence peddlers who make a living causing damage to our society, delaying action on important health issues like smoking and global warming," he insists. "In fact, they kill people: Lives are lost as a result of their actions, and some day they will be held accountable."

Now if only Tom Borelli could buy shares in Greenpeace.

Source URL: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/11/tom-borelli-phillip-morris-climate-change

Links:

[1] http://www.iccr.org/

[2] http://www.iccr.org/shareholder/learn/sampleresolution.php

ur TP

Other third-party groups: tobacco industry and Tea Party affiliations

In 2001, Humber announced that the NSA would be dissolved, with some of its funds being transferred to the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF, figure 1),133 ,134 which Humber founded in 1998.135 Its mission is to ‘protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.’136 As of 2012, CFIF's president was former NSA spokesperson Jeffrey Mazzella137 ,138 and CFIF's corporate counsel and senior vice president was former NSA attorney Renee Giachino.139 ,140

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR, figure 1), which promotes ‘principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility [as] the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century,’141 has been a longstanding tobacco industry ally and employs or collaborates with individuals who worked for the tobacco industry. Philip Morris funded NCPPR in the 1990s,142–144 and NCPPR was a member of RJR's GGOOB.31 NCPPR also opposed FDA regulation of tobacco145 and the DOJ RICO lawsuit against the tobacco industry.146 In 2012 NCPPR was continuing efforts, such as its ‘Occupy Occupy D.C. Smoke-in’ to protest about taxes on smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes.147

Thomas Borelli,also an NCPPR senior fellow and his spouse, Deneen Borelli, an NCPPR fellow (as well as a FreedomWorks’ fellow148) worked for Philip Morris for over 20 years and have spoken at Tea Party events (figure 1 and online supplementary table S2). While atPhilip Morris, Thomas Borelli served on its public policy advisory council, which reviewed and prioritised public policy grants for funding and designated CSE a Category A public policy organisation for funding.54 Dana Joel Gattuso, a NCPPR senior fellow, had been CSE's deputy director of regulatory affairs.149

Steve Milloy, who served as co-director of NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project with Tom Borelli,150 helped the industry contest the link between second-hand smoke and disease.29 Milloy directed The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition151 (TASSC, figure 1), which was created for Philip Morris in 1993 by the public relations firm APCO Associates, as part of the effort to undermine the EPA's second-hand smoke risk assessment.29 Though TASSC was eventually disbanded, Milloy maintained http://junkscience.com as of 2012152 (see online supplementary table S2).

The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is another example of a Tea Party-related organisation with strong roots in the tobacco industry. In 2002, Guest Choice Network became the CCF to oppose efforts by ‘the anti-consumer forces [to] expand their reach beyond the restaurants and taverns, going into your communities and even your homes.’153 Lobbyist Richard Berman created Guest Choice Network in 1995, with US$600 000 in startup funds,154 as well as continued funding from Philip Morris.155–157 It was meant to appear as ‘a restaurant-driven programme’ to oppose smoke-free restaurants that was not ‘owned’ by Philip Morris.158

srcwtch?

Dr. Thomas J. Borelli Ph.D. was the manager of Philip Morris Corporate Scientific Affairs Department circa 1990. Dr. Borelli has a doctorate in biochemistry from the New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York[affiliated w/ albert E, montefiore] . Before entering this position with Philip Morris, Dr. Borelli was a technical specialist for the Products Safety and External Technical Affairs Division of General Foods World Wide. Dr. Borelli also has served as a science consultant for the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. (DOCS 000033) Thomas J. Borelli worked for Philip Morris Corporate Services, Inc. in Brussels. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

As of November 2010, Thomas Borelli was a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C.[1] Borelli is a managing partner with Action Fund Management, an investment advisory firm, and a portfolio managerr for the Free Enterprise Action Fund.[2]

As of 2012 Borelli was working at the right-wing think tank FreedomWorks as a Senior Fellow and an"expert" on the coal industry.[3]

Articles by Thomas Borelli

The Anti-Capitalism Virus, National Policy Analysis, Feb. 2006 (a publication of the National Center for Public Policy Research)

Tobacco industry documents

A brief internal email from Tom Borelli (then Manager of Corporate Scientific Affairs for Philip Morris) relates PM's efforts to influence a scientific meeting about secondhand smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS). It reveals the subsequent scorn the company received, and the company's future plans to find ways to influence the group.

Borelli

only member of pjt 21 core who's actually black?

Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation

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threshold/simon and shuster 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Blacklash-Driving-Americans-Government-Plantation/dp/1451643640

March 8, 2013

Conservative organization FreedomWorks is fundraising off of Fox News contributor Karl Rove's efforts to, in the group's words, "silence grassroots activists and make sure that only big-government RINO's call the shots in Washington."

Rove, along with allies from his Crossroads political groups, recently launched the Conservative Victory Project. According to  The New York Times,the group  will work to "recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts." The project has sparked a  civil war among conservative commentators, with some of Rove's own Fox News colleagues calling the group "absolutely repulsive" and  "an incumbency protection racket."

FreedomWorks, which  attacked Rove when the project was announced, has launched  NotKarlsParty.com. In a video touting the effort, FreedomWorks spokeswoman and  Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli says that "Karl Rove and his unprincipled establishment candidates" are trying to "take over the GOP." The message asks followers to visit NotKarlsParty.com to "file a petition to give Karl Rove a piece of your mind."alternet