Rockefeller, Jay Sen

===democrat

snowe also bailed

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=https://yyy.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/27/rockefeller-family-tried-and-failed-exxonmobil-accept-climate-changeRockefeller family tried and failed to get ExxonMobil to accept climate changeThis article is more than 6 years oldFounding family of the US oil empire Exxon, begged the company to give up climate denial and reform their ways a decade ago – but attempts at engagement failed
Rockefeller family members voiced concern about the direction of the oil company ExxonMobil Peter O’Neill, chair of the Rockefeller Family committee (C) sits with Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, economist, and great-granddaughter of John D Rockefeller and Stephen B Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund during a news conference in which Rockefeller family members voiced concern about the direction of the oil company ExxonMobil in April 2008 in New York. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesSuzanne Goldenberg in New York@suzyjiFri 27 Mar 2015 Members of the Rockefeller family tried to get ExxonMobil to acknowledge the dangers of climate change a decade ago – but failed in their efforts to reform the oil giant.In letters, lunch meetings, and shareholder resolutions, the descendants of John D Rockefeller, founder of the oil empire that eventually became Exxon, sought repeatedly to persuade the company to abandon climate denial and begin shifting their business towards clean energy.“We were really begging the company to look harder at what they were doing. They were still into climate denial and funding deniers and really against any positive steps,” said Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, who helped lead the reform effort.The outreach effort, led mainly by Rockefeller’s great grandchildren, began with a lunch meeting in 2004 with Exxon’s then head of investor relations.“This was the family trying to get into a friendly conversation with ExxonMobil, feeling we have a strong historical connection with that company,” said Goodwin. “We wanted to start talking with the company about their view of the future and how they could be a constructive player as well as part of the problem.”The company was blindsided. David Henry, then head of investor relations, was “stunned” at the family’s concern about climate change, according to Goodwin’s recollection of events.“The head of investor relations was really surprised to find we didn’t love Exxon as it was but thought changes might be a good idea,” she said.Over the next few years, Goodwin and about a dozen other Rockefellers launched three separate shareholder resolutions pressing Exxon to recognise climate change and invest in renewable energy. The cousins also sought an independent chairman, believing it would make the company more responsive.At the time the oil company was the main funder of dozens of front groups and researchers rubbishing any link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change – or denying climate change was occurring at all.Among the recipients was Willie Soon, the Harvard-Smithsonian researcher who received more than $1m (£0.7m) from industry, according to documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings.In a report released on the eve of their 2008 annual general meeting, the oil company pledged to stop funding groups that promote climate denial.However, the company continued funding Soon for three more years. The documents show that Exxon gave Soon an additional $76,106 from 2008 to 2010, despite claiming to have stopped.The shareholder resolutions were easily defeated.The US environmentalist Bill McKibben says the failure of the family’s efforts is telling and signals the limits of shareholder engagement with some fossil fuel companies. “It makes a very clear point that engaging with fossil fuel companies to somehow get them to change their ways is unlikely to work if the family of the founder can’t get Exxon to shift.”The Rockefeller heirs also tried private and public pressure. Nearly 100 direct descendants also signed a letter expressing concern as investors and begging the company to stop funding climate deniers, Goodwin said.In 2006, another cousin, Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and Senator Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, wrote a letter to the incoming Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson, urging the company to stop funding climate deniers.“ExxonMobil’s longstanding support of a small cadre of global climate change sceptics, and those sceptics’ access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy,” the letter said. “It is our hope that under your leadership, ExxonMobil would end its dangerous support of the ‘deniers’.”Most of the Rockefellers’ personal fortunes are held in trusts set up in the 1930s.The family retains only a tiny fraction of shares in Exxon. But the stand taken by the Rockefellers – at a time when Exxon was under attack from campaign groups for its support of climate denial – rankled company executives who had expected family members to be allies, Goodwin said. “They were shocked to find this family that had a strong link with them, and that they expect to find a great friend and admirer ... had such a negative view.”But even with the weight of that historical connection Exxon was still not persuaded to change.“I was pretty discouraged. Exxon has an extremely strong culture of believing that they are right and know what they are doing and really don’t need to listen to anybody else,” Goodwin went on. “It was clear that we didn’t have an ability to make more of a dent in that.”When the Guardian asked for a comment on the Rockefellers’ attempts to engage with the company it issued this statement. “ExxonMobil will not respond to Guardian inquiries because of its lack of objectivity on climate change reporting demonstrated by its campaign against companies that provide energy necessary for modern life, including newspapers.”Ken Cohen, ExxonMobil’s vice president for public and government affairs has previously been dismissive of the concept of fossil fuel divestment, saying that it is “out of step with reality”.“There are no scalable alternative fuels or technologies available today capable of taking the place of fossil fuels and offering society what those energy sources provide,” he wrote in a blog in October.=Exxon Mobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a Climate Conspiracy  https://www.nytimes.com › 2016/11/21 › science › exx...Nov 21, 2016 — Exxon Mobil, under fire over its past efforts to undercut climate science, is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a conspiracy ...<div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div>mashey 2012</div><div>p 156</div><div>
</div><div>Z.2007.02.8 Heartland on Monckton Letter</div><div>British Lord Demands End to Climate Science Censorship</div><div>“Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley and a member of the</div><div>Upper House of the British legislature, 763 has sent a letter to Sens. Olympia</div><div>Snowe (R-ME) and John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) excoriating them for</div><div>attempting to strong-arm ExxonMobil into cutting off support for public interest</div><div>groups that question global warming alarmism. …</div><div>Monckton, a former science and technology advisor764 to British Prime Minister</div><div>Margaret Thatcher, .. Monckton’s open letter, edited for length, appears below.</div><div>…”</div><div>“You commend Britain’s Royal Society765</div><div>, once a learned body and now a mere</div><div>Left-leaning political pressure-group, …</div><div>Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of the</div><div>United Kingdom legislature,…”</div><div>Heartland edited the original766 document, deleting the following section</div><div>quite relevant to the topics discussed in this report:</div><div>“In the circumstances, your comparison of Exxon’s funding of sceptical</div><div>scientists and groups with the former antics of the tobacco industry is</div><div>unjustifiable and unworthy of any credible elected representatives. Either</div><div>withdraw that monstrous comparison forthwith, or resign so as not to pollute the</div><div>office you hold.”</div><div>Monckton has been discredited numerous times,767 but Heartland promotes</div><div>him as a “global warming expert” to their readership.</div><div>This was apparently insufficient as seen in next article.</div><div>
</div><div>763en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Br</div><div>enchley Monckton has never been a member of the House of Lords.</div><div>764 There is no evidence of this claim, and much otherwise.</div><div>765 The RS is the oldest science society in the world. Monckton is a nonscientist.</div><div>766 www.ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf p.6</div><div>767 scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/12/monckton_debunks_monckton.php</div><div>www.skepticalscience.com/monckton-tries-to-censor-john-abraham.html</div><div>www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jul/14/monckton-johnabraham</div><div></div><div>p 156</div><div>Z.2007.02-10 David Ridenour</div><div>Senators’ Inquisition Attempts to Stifle Science, Debate</div><div>“Nicolas Copernicus was condemned for suggesting that the sun, rather than the</div><div>Earth, was the center of our universe. …</div><div>Today, U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and John Rockefeller IV are engaging in</div><div>persecution of their own, attempting to silence dissenting voices. Just what do</div><div>they fear? … IRS-3E</div><div>Truth, Science Will Prevail</div><div>Scientific method isn’t about winning popularity contests. It’s also not about</div><div>being with the majority opinion. It isn’t supposed be determined by politics. It is</div><div>about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results.</div><div>Unfortunately, by attempting to cut off some of the funding for those who</div><div>contribute to the diversity of both the scientific and public policy debate, Sens.</div><div>Snowe and Rockefeller are attempting to bias the results.</div><div>They will fail, however, because funding from energy companies is not what is</div><div>fueling the vigorous climate change debate.</div><div>What is fueling the debate is a genuine, sincere difference of opinion.”</div><div>Ridenour’s degree is in political science and he is now President of</div><div>NCPPR, after a 25-year tenure as Vice president.</div><div>768</div><div>Unsurprisingly NCPPR has gotten ExxonMobil funding. 769</div><div> In fact, almost</div><div>all of the foundation funding identifiable then came from ExxonMobil.</div><div>Likewise, (Fig. F.4), NCPPR was able to obtain tobacco funding, so one</div><div>wonders how many children got addicted from NCPPR’s assistance. That</div><div>might be a question to ask of Mr. Ridenour for his impassioned defense of</div><div>science. Has NCPPR ever done much real science? Any?</div><div>
</div><div>768 www.nationalcenter.org/bios/ridenourd.html</div><div>www.eri-nonprofitsalaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=521226614</div><div>This is another family business, run by Amy and David Ridenour.</div><div>769 MAS2010 p.71, </div></div><div>=</div>=

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<table><tbody><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">K&L Gates</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$67,600</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$48,100</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$19,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$62,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$22,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$40,100</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Time Warner</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$55,500</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$31,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$24,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Verizon Communications</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$55,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$33,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$22,000</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">United Continental Holdings</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$54,900</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$21,400</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$33,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Jackson Kelly Pllc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$53,450</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$53,450</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forest City Enterprises</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$51,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$51,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">West Virginia University</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$51,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$51,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">General Electric</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$50,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$20,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,100</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">American Hospital Assn</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$49,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$11,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$38,000</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Peabody Energy</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$48,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$26,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$22,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Steptoe & Johnson</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$47,333</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$47,333</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$0</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Delta Air Lines</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$46,100</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$17,100</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$29,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Laborers Union</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$45,250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$250</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$45,000</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American Electric Power</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$45,200</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$30,700</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$14,500</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Ernst & Young</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$44,550</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$18,050</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$26,500</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Park Corp</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$43,900</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$43,900</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">Skadden, Arps et al</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$43,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$23,150</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$20,000</td></tr><tr class="even" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Air Line Pilots Assn</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$43,000</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$0</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$43,000</td></tr><tr class="odd" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style="padding: 4px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">PepsiCo Inc</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$42,800</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$17,300</td><td class="number" style="padding: 4px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 246);">$25,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; border: 0px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">1989 - 2014 Total Receipts:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/4305da00-8b17-50cc-8b42-7debb27daf6e.gif"/> $17,353,093</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">1989 - 2014 Total Spent:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/a0a4b9c0-2358-599e-a8bf-39528e3f9403.gif"/> $16,761,378</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Debts:</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><img src="/3c50553e-5491-5bcf-bfd2-80a256a19367.gif"/> $0</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Last Report:</td><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Monday, December 31, 2012</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Contributors, 1989 - 2014</h2>

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<table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Contributor</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">K&L Gates</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$67,600</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$48,100</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$19,500</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">AT&T Inc</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$62,300</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$22,200</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$40,100</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Time Warner</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$55,500</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$31,000</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$24,500</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Verizon Communications</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$55,300</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,300</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$22,000</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">United Continental Holdings</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$54,900</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$21,400</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$33,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;">Top 5 Industries, 1989 - 2014</h2>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; width: 605px; background: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><thead><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Industry</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Total</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Indivs</th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background: rgb(153, 153, 153);">PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Lawyers/Law Firms</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,643,126</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$1,342,609</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$300,517</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Health Professionals</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$879,277</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$483,305</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$395,972</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Securities & Investment</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$657,911</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$510,461</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$147,450</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Real Estate</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$633,038</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$569,038</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$64,000</td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236);"><td style=" padding: 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Air Transport</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$518,450</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$110,700</td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">$407,750</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><a id="funds" name="funds" style="text-decoration: none; background: transparent;"> </a>Source of Funds</h2>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller</a>

John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is the senior <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senator</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">West Virginia</a>. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_West_Virginia" title="List of Governors of West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Governor of West Virginia</a>, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. Rockefeller moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmons,_West_Virginia" title="Emmons, West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Emmons, West Virginia</a> to serve as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteers_in_Service_to_America" title="Volunteers in Service to America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">VISTA</a> worker in 1964, and was first elected to public office in the state, as a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="West Virginia House of Delegates" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House of Delegates</a>, in 1966. Rockefeller was later elected West Virginia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_West_Virginia" title="Secretary of State of West Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Secretary of State</a> in 1968 and was president of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Wesleyan_College" title="West Virginia Wesleyan College" style="text-decoration: underline; background: none;">West Virginia Wesleyan College</a> from 1973 to 1975.

As a great-grandson of oil <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate" title="Business magnate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">tycoon</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D.Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John D. Rockefeller</a>, he is the only currently serving politician of the prominent six-generation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family" title="Rockefeller family" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rockefeller family</a> and the only one to have held office as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Democrat</a> in what has been a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican" title="Rockefeller Republican" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background: none;">traditionally</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a> dynasty.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> On January 11, 2013, Rockefeller announced that he would not seek reelection in 2014.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#cite_note-WAPOjan11-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

<div id="toctitle" style=" direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Early_life" style="text-align: left; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> Early life</a></div><ul style=" line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; text-align: left;">

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#State_politics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 State politics</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#U.S._Senate_tenure" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 U.S. Senate tenure</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Overview" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Overview</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Elections" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2 Elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Committees" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3 Committees</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Political positions</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Television_violence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 Television violence</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Telecommunications_companies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3 Telecommunications companies</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Torture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.4 Torture</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#2008_presidential_election" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.5 2008 presidential election</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Cybersecurity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.6 Cybersecurity</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Health_care" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.7 Health care</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Electoral history</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Awards_and_decorations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Awards and decorations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#Further_reading" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rockefeller#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10 External links</a></li>

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RS 12

The senior senator from the ancestral home of Big Coal [west va] talks a good game when it comes to global warming. "I'm concerned that powerful voices continue to argue that climate change is a myth," Rockefeller declared last year. "Greenhouse gas emissions are not healthy for our Earth or for her people, and we must take serious action to reduce them." But Rockefeller's deeds don't match his lofty rhetoric. Last year, he led the charge in the Senate to prevent the EPA from regulating carbon emissions, insisting that Congress should be the one to "determine how best to reduce greenhouse gases in a way that protects West Virginia's economy." Given that there is no chance lawmakers will take action on carbon pollution anytime soon, Rockefeller's move was just another excuse to burn more coal. What's worse, it also provided Republicans with bipartisan cover in their crusade to strip the Obama administration of its last remaining way to cut planet-warming pollution on its own. "Who does Senator Rockefeller think will protect Americans from the dangers of global warming if the government is left with no tools to do so?" asks Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Of course, Senate Democrats face some enthusiasm for an anti-EPA push within their own ranks. A two-year delay in enforcing greenhouse gas emissions limits offered by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) attracted six co-sponsors in his party, and several more Democratic senators from manufacturing-dependent states may yet cross over to support it when an updated version is offered this year.  NYT

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I <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-10-republicans-hollow-threat-epa-and-congressional-review-act">wrote the other day</a> that Congress has no chance of reversing EPA climate pollution standards by using the Congressional Review Act, Fred Upton's <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/135595-upton-eyes-congressional-review-act-challenge-to-epa-climate-rules">smack-talking</a> aside. The same can be said of bills introduced by Reps. <a href="http://blackburn.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=172659">Marsha Blackburn</a> (R-Tenn.) and <a href="http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/01/rep_ted_poe_seeks_to_block_fun_1.html">Ted Poe</a> (R-Texas), which would permanently bar EPA from addressing greenhouse gases.

In the unlikely event that one of these gets through the Senate, Obama is certain to veto it, and there is zero chance it could muster the 67 votes needed to override. It's all bluster, an attempt to push the frame of the debate rightward.

The only serious legislative threat to EPA powers is the proposal -- relentlessly pushed in the Senate by Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and now <a href="http://capito.house.gov/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=4d98cf81-eb54-414e-bd7e-fa084a06f2e1&ContentType_id=1fd4a434-0ac6-401b-912e-788b9296ed8e&Group_id=8c86c275-ed56-476c-94fa-f4f2b5911415">introduced in the House by Shelley Moore Capito</a> (R-W.Va.) -- to delay EPA climate rules for two years.

The purported rationale for the delay is that the economy is in a recession. But let's be clear: The purported rationale is bullshit. Nobody in D.C. takes it seriously, though of course the media is happy to play along. (Pointing out these kind of shared fictions counts as "bias" in media circles.)

No politician who thinks these regulations are going to be a crippling blow to the economy is going to be willing to give the economy such a blow in two years any more than they are today. The real intent behind the bill is to permanently block the EPA from addressing greenhouse gases. Capito, for one, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/01/07/07greenwire-newly-empowered-republicans-float-bills-to-blo-20939.html">makes no bones about it</a>: "Although I do not believe the EPA should be granted this authority whatsoever, and I favor permanent suspension," she says, "I am confident that my bill has enough support to seriously hinder the EPA's power."

Rockefeller, being a Democrat, has to be somewhat more circumspect. But he <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-10-chairman-rockefeller-knows-better">voted for Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) resolution</a>, which would have permanently crippled EPA, <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-10-murkowski-resolution-goes-down-to-defeat-in-stupid-episode">thundering</a> in a floor speech, "I don't care about the Supreme Court!" He <a href="http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=300339&">has said</a> that EPA regulations "offer questionable greenhouse gas reductions at the expense of business certainty and economic growth." Is he going to feel differently in two years? Are economic circumstances going to change so much in the next two years that any senator will feel differently?

No. This is part of a concerted strategy. Bills like Blackburn's and Poe's push as hard to the far right as possible so that a two-year delay looks like the sensible "centrist" option. The point of the Rockefeller bill is to give "moderate" Senate Democrats a safe place to hide, where they can avoid offending both their corporate constituents and their clean-air-loving citizen constituents.

The question is whether enough of them will choose to hide there, or more importantly, whether Obama will hide there with them. Suffice to say, I think it would be a huge, huge mistake for Obama to back this bill as one of his signature gestures of compromise and bipartisanship. He must veto it.

If Rockefeller's bill passes and Obama refrains from a veto, what will happen in two years when the delay is up? Well, the country will likely still be suffering 8 percent or greater unemployment. The Senate will already have gone on record ratifying the (false) notion that these regulations will cripple the economy. Obama will be in the middle of a heated campaign for reelection. An <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45004.html">unusually large number of Dem senators</a> with vulnerable seats will be fighting for their political lives.

Is there any doubt that in those circumstances the delay would be extended? What else could Obama say? "I wanted to protect the economy in 2010, but I don't want to this election year." And then in 2014, with a Republican majority in the Senate, is there any doubt that it will be extended again? Eventually, extension will become the default policy until a vote for a permanent block finally makes it through.

That's the worst case scenario, but it's hard to see any good outcome from such a delay, other than giving cowardly Dems a little temporary cover.

Losing this fight would be a disaster, and there's no avoiding it. That leaves winning. Obama would be wise to start building a vigorous case before the American people -- starting today -- about why he plans to veto it if it hits his desk.

Rockefeller, Jay Sen

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