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Note: "progress" in title, as in progressive?=Foundation for Clean Air Progress Burson-Marsteller is behind a deceptively-named group called the "Foundation for Clean Air Progress" (FCAP), which was founded in 1995. Describing itself as Your source for public information and education about improving air quality in America[35], you might think that the FCAP supports measures to control air pollution. In fact, it was formed specifically to pressure the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to adopt tougher air pollution controls. The Washington Post reported on June 17, 1997 that FCAP participates in a "multimillion-dollar campaign to turn back EPA regulations for smog and soot. ... The nerve centre behind the attack is a coalition of more than 500 businesses and trade groups that calls itself the Air Quality Standards Coalition. Created specifically to battle the clean air proposals, the coalition operates out of the offices of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based trade group. Its leadership includes top managers of petroleum, automotive and utility companies as well as long-time Washington insiders such as C. Boyden Gray, a counsel to former president George Bush. The same industries would likely bear the brunt of the costs for the new regulations, which the EPA estimates at more than $ 6 billion a year.[36]<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress</a>The Foundation for Clean Air Progress (FCAP) describes itself as "a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that was formed in 1995 to provide public education and information about air quality progress." The organization states on its website that its "message is fact-based and derived from U.S. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">EPA</a> data" and that its "tips for clearing the air are comprised from those advocated by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Lung_Association" title="American Lung Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Lung Association</a>, EPA and other environmental and health advocacy organizations." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.cleanairprogress.org/about/index.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#Industry_Front_Group" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Industry Front Group</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#Address" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Address</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 External links</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#Reports" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4.1 Reports</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Clean_Air_Progress#Articles_.26_Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4.2 Articles & Commentary</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Industry Front Group</h2>FCAP is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">front group</a>. John Byrne Berry wrote in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/199703/cleanair.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%;">"Environmentalists, Industry Face Off Over EPA Limits On Smog, Soot"</a> for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sierra Club</a>'s March 1997 newsletter that, "[i]n addition to using the traditional tactics of a multi-million dollar <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">lobbying</a> campaign, like hiring doctors and economists to write reports saying tougher standards are unnecessary, industry is also creating front groups to give the appearance of a grassroots movement. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Petroleum_Institute" title="American Petroleum Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Petroleum Institute</a>, for example, has hired a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_relations" title="Public relations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">public relations</a> firm to run the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, a scientific <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">think tank</a> that conveniently excludes scientists whose work proves the need for tougher standards."FCAP is one of several "industry and corporate sponsored coalitions that also profess to care about the environment - particularly when it affects their bottom lines," Marion Currinder <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/newsletter/ce44/ce44.02.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">wrote</a> in the July 15, 1997, Capital Eye newsletter.In the August 24, 1997, Albion Monitor, James Terry <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9708a/foulair.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">included</a> the FCAP among "a number of groups [that] has emerged from the shadows of private-sector power to fight the EPA on behalf of the moneymen in polluting industries.""They are waging an intense lobbying and PR campaign to prevent cleaner air from becoming a reality. The campaign relies on stealth and obfuscation, and involves the usual assortment of dishonest ads, phony front groups with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Orwellian" title="Orwellian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Orwellian</a> names (in Florida the Florida Coalition for Clean Air is opposing cleaner air), scientists-for-hire and mega-dollar PR flacks," Terry wrote. "The Foundation for Clean Air Progress, which is opposed to clean air progress. The foundation is a creation of the American Petroleum Institute and PR agency behemoth (and veteran green-washer) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Burson-Marsteller" title="Burson-Marsteller" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Burson-Marsteller</a>. Members include such notable tree-huggers as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Asphalt_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asphalt Institute (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Asphalt Institute</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Trucking_Associations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Trucking Associations (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">American Trucking Associations</a>."David Cromwell wrote in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/2002----.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"The Propaganda Model: An Overview"</a> (excerpted from Private Planet, 2002):<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"In her 1997 book Global Spin, Sharon Beder documented at great length the operations of corporations and their hired PR firms in establishing grassroots 'front movements' to counter the gains made by environmentalists. One such coalition, the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, is 'in reality a front for transportation, energy, manufacturing and agricultural groups'. The Foundation was established to challenge the US <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_Air_Act" title="Clean Air Act" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Clean Air Act</a> by 'educating' the public about the progress made in air quality over the previous twenty-five years. As Beder notes, the Foundation's 'focus is on individual responsibility for pollution, as opposed to the regulation of industry to achieve further improvements.' The threat - real or imagined - of law-suits can be a powerful deterrent to media investigation."</dd></dl>===

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In 2001, Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber wrote in PRWatch:

"Burson-Marsteller is also behind a deceptively-named group called the 'Foundation for Clean Air Progress' (FCAP). Judging from its name, you might think that FCAP supports measures to control air pollution. In fact, it was formed specifically to pressure the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to adopt tougher air pollution controls. The Washington Post reported on June 17, 1997 that FCAP participates in a 'multimillion-dollar campaign to turn back EPA regulations for smog and soot. ... The nerve center behind the attack is a coalition of more than 500 businesses and trade groups that calls itself the Air Quality Standards Coalition. Created specifically to battle the clean air proposals, the coalition operates out of the offices of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based trade group. Its leadership includes top managers of petroleum, automotive and utility companies as well as longtime Washington insiders such as C. Boyden Gray, a counsel to former president George Bush. The same industries would likely bear the brunt of the costs for the new regulations, which the EPA estimates at more than $ 6 billion a year. ... Exxon, a member of the coalition, recently sent notices to its credit card customers urging them to oppose the EPA regulations. Other companies helped pay for TV and newspapers ads produced by the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, a nonprofit institute funded by energy, transportation and manufacturing companies that operates out of the offices of the public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller.'

...<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"According to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_O%27Donnell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank O'Donnell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Frank O'Donnell</a>, executive director of a genuine environmental group called the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_Air_Trust&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clean Air Trust (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Clean Air Trust</a>, FCAP 'was formed to distract the public from the dangers of air pollution. It tries to ignore the fact that air pollution--much of it produced by the foundation's financial backers--is still linked to tens of thousands of premature deaths a year.' O'Donnell noted that FCAP's members are also major sources of greenhouse gases (U.S. Newswire, March 16, 1998).</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"The Tennessean reported on July 14, 1996 that FCAP was 'made up of 20 organizations' including 'the American Petroleum Institute, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Petroleum_Marketers_Association_of_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petroleum Marketers Association of America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Petroleum Marketers Association of America</a>, American Trucking Associations, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Farm_Bureau_Federation" title="American Farm Bureau Federation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Farm Bureau Federation</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Transportation_Coalition_for_Clean_Air&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Transportation Coalition for Clean Air (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Transportation Coalition for Clean Air</a>. ... The foundation itself is not listed with Washington, D.C., telephone directory assistance. Burson-Marsteller staffers answer calls made to a number listed in a handout.'"</dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Address</h2>In 1999, the Foundation for Clean Air Progress's address was 1801 K Street NW, Suite 1000L, Washington, DC 20006. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.envplan.com/ref.cgi?id=a3506com" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">Contact Information</h2>Foundation for Clean Air Progress
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
North Building, Suite 540
Washington, D.C. 20004
Website: <span style="padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" ww.cleanairprogre="ww.cleanairprogre" />ssARG  404 MALWARE
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<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background: none;">External links</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Reports</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icrsurvey.com/Study.aspx?f=cleanair.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Americans See Clean Air Act as Among Environmental Legacies of the Millennium. Survey Results Show Laws to Protect Air and Water Are Viewed as Most Important Environmental Initiatives,"</a> PR Newswire, December 8, 1999.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cleanairprogress.org/research/2004_Report_Final907.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Final Report: "Ambient Air Quality Trends. An Analysis of Data Collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,"</a> Prepared for the Foundation for Clean Air Progress by Meszler Engineering Services, Abingdon, MD, September 1, 2004.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background: none;">Articles & Commentary</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Byrne Berry, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/199703/cleanair.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Environmentalists, Industry Face Off Over EPA Limits On Smog, Soot,"</a> The Planet/Sierra Club, March 1997.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Marion Currinder, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/newsletter/ce44/ce44.02.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Cultivating the Grassroots,"</a> Capital Eye Newsletter of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Progressive_Politics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Progressive Politics (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Center for Progressive Politics</a>, July 15, 1997.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q3/cx.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Correction: Burson-Marsteller and the Global Climate Coalition,"</a> PRWatch, Third Quarter 2001, Volume 8, No 3.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/foundation_for_clean_air_progress.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Non-Profit Organizations Receiving Corporate Funding. 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The Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC) was an coalition of various industry groups that operated between late 1999 and approximately 2003. The coalition was chaired by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Manufacturers" title="National Association of Manufacturers">National Association of Manufacturers</a> (NAM).

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#Background">1 Background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#Leadership">2 Leadership</a></li>

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<h2>Background</h2>

Writing in The New Republic, Hanna Rosin noted that veteran Washington mover and shaker <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=C.Boyden_Gray" title="C. Boyden Gray">C. Boyden Gray</a> was co-chairman of the Air Quality Standards Coalition which she described as comprising "a group of oil, steel, trucking, agricultural and auto companies" that had been created to oppose new air quality regulations proposed by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_note-Rosin-0" title="">[1]</a>

"Gray was their natural leader," she wrote. "The EPA came up with its new formula after a study showed that, during the thirteen months that the Geneva Steel plant in Provo, Utah, shut down in 1986 and 1987, the number of preschool children hospitalized for asthma dropped by two-thirds. Gray, it just so happens, is a lobbyist for Geneva Steel. The coalition has at least 500 members, companies such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texaco" title="Texaco" class="mw-redirect">Texaco</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Teneco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teneco (page does not exist)">Teneco</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chevron" title="Chevron">Chevron</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a>, and is coordinated by the National Association of Manufacturers."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_note-Rosin-0" title="">[1]</a>

The coalition Rosin wrote:

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<dd>"operates on the purest form of money-buys-access logic. PACs associated with the coalition gave $11.9 million to senators between 1991 and 1996. The group has been trying to woo the National Governors' Association since its newly chosen chairman, Ohio Governor George Voinovich, came out against the proposed EPA ruling. When that failed, it tried legal bribes. "The NAM has to pony up more cash for the NGA," reads the notes of one attendant at a November 1 meeting.</dd>

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<dd>"The coalition also uses standard tobacco-industry squelch tactics. In the notes of an October 6 meeting, one of the members, the American Iron and Steel Institute (aisi), commissioned a study in Pittsburgh on the cost of complying with the regulations. In December, preliminary results came back showing the costs were zero. "So let's deep-six them," said one member of the coalition, in a transcript of the meeting. "Won't see the light of day." Bruce Steiner of aisi admits that the institute canceled the study because "it only gives a partial view."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_note-Rosin-0" title="">[1]</a></dd>

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In October 1999, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, stated on its website that "Previously, the Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC) dealt primarily with the repeal of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect">EPA</a>'s final rule on particulate matter and ozone. The new focus is on EPA's proposed rule regarding regional haze, which deals with many of the same issues. The coalition is chaired by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Manufacturers" title="National Association of Manufacturers">National Association of Manufacturers</a> (NAM) and a broad cross-section of the business community is involved."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

<h2>Leadership</h2>

A biographical note of attorney <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_D.Clayton" title="Richard D. Clayton">Richard D. Clayton</a> from the Salt Lake City based firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Holland%26_Hart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holland & Hart (page does not exist)">Holland & Hart</a> described his "public policy experience" as having "included leading two national multi-industry coalitions-the Air Quality Standards Coalition as public policy experience has included leading two national multi-industry coalitions-the Air Quality Standards Coalition" in the role as Chairman and as Vice Chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_Reasonable_Regulation" title="Alliance for Reasonable Regulation">Alliance for Reasonable Regulation</a> (Vice Chairman).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

As noted above, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=C._Boyden_Gray" title="C. Boyden Gray">C. Boyden Gray</a> was the other co-chairman.

<h2>Articles and Resources</h2>

<h3>Sources</h3>

<li id="cite_note-Rosin-0">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_ref-Rosin_0-0" title="">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_ref-Rosin_0-1" title="">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_ref-Rosin_0-2" title="">1.2</a> Hanna Rosin, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/graytnr.html" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/reprints/graytnr.html" rel="nofollow">"Shades of Gray"</a>, The New Republic, April 14, 1997.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031220203530/http://www.nrmca.org/government_affairs/coalitionactivity.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20031220203530/http://www.nrmca.org/government_affairs/coalitionactivity.html" rel="nofollow">"2003 NRMCA Coalition Activity"</a>, October 2, 1999, accessed March 2008. (This is a page archived in the Internet Archive. The last version of this page that was indexed was from December 20, 2003 which was titled "2003 NRMCA Coalition Activity" which seems to indicater that the coalition continued at least until that year.)</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030828152130/http://www.hollandhart.com/peopleprofile.cfm?IDName=PersonID&ID=5143" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20030828152130/http://www.hollandhart.com/peopleprofile.cfm?IDName=PersonID&ID=5143" rel="nofollow">"PEOPLE : Attorneys/Professionals Profile: Richard D. Clayton"</a>, August 28 2003. (This page is archived in the Internet archive).</li>

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=Correction: Burson-Marsteller and the Global Climate Coalitionby Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
http://www.prwatch.org/files/pdfs/prwatch/prwv8n3.pdf  (dnlded)
Nearly four years ago, a report on global warming inthe Fourth Quarter 1997 issue of PR Watch stated thatthe Burson-Marsteller PR firm created the Global ClimateCoalition to help the oil and auto industries downplaythe dangers of global warming. We based thisstatement on a source which we regarded as reliable.Burson-Marsteller made no attempt to deny this claimuntil July 2001. Following a recent denial from BursonMarsteller,however, we have undertaken a thoroughreview of our files and have spoken with several sources,none of whom can substantiate this claim. We are thereforeretracting our statement that Burson-Marstellercreated the Global Climate Coalition.We should point out that Burson-Marsteller has beensubscribing to PR Watch since 1995, so they received ourFourth Quarter 1997 issue at the time of its publication.Since Burson-Marsteller is in the business of “reputationmanagement,” its failure to request a correction previouslyon this point is rather striking—particularly sinceour article was subsequently cited on this point in dozensof other published news stories.The most important issue, however, is the questionof whether Burson-Marsteller has participated in thepetroleum industry’s campaigns to block measuresaimed at preventing global warming. B-M may not haveactually created the GCC, but its work for the petroleumindustry on this issue is beyond dispute.In 1993, for example, Burson-Marsteller led a $1.8million campaign to defeat President Clinton’s proposedBTU tax on fossil fuels, the centerpiece of Clinton’s planto combat global warming. Journalist David Helvargdescribed this campaign as follows in the December1996 issue of The Nation: “Clinton committed theUnited States ‘to reducing our emissions of greenhousegases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000.’ The Administration’splan to accomplish this included a deficit reducingenergy tax and increased gasoline taxes of upto 25 cents a gallon. Then a computer-driven ‘grassroots’ letter and phone-in campaign orchestrated by theAmerican Energy Alliance, along with an oil-fundedpush by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, helped underminesupport for the energy tax. The Administration abandonedthe tax in the Senate after House Democrats,braving the wrath of industry, had passed it. Relationsbetween the White House and Congressional Democratssoured quickly after that. Congress also voted to keepthe gas tax below 5 cents, guaranteeing that with thelowest fuel prices in the developed world, alternativeenergy sources would remain noncompetitive.”Burson-Marsteller’s campaign against the BTU taxwas also described in Time, which reported on June 21,1993 that the National Association of Manufacturers(the original sponsor of the Global Climate Coalition)“got together with the American Petroleum Institute,1,600 large companies, small businesses and farmers toform the American Energy Alliance (AEA), a groupdesigned solely to defeat the BTU tax. The coalition paidmore than $1 million to Burson-Marsteller, a public relationsfirm, to deploy nearly 45 staff members in 23 statesduring the past two months. . . . Burson’s operativesdrafted anti-BTU editorials and sent them to copyhungryweekly newspapers. They helped school boardsfigure their estimated annual energy taxes. They commissionedlocal economists to produce studies aboutpotential job loss and then organized rallies and pressconferences to publicize the results. They bombardedTV and radio stations with feeds from local businessowners angry about the BTU tax. ‘It was unlike anythingI’ve ever seen,’ said Brent Stanghelle, farm-news directorof radio station KMON in Great Falls, Montana. ‘Itwas like spring planting—frantic, crazy. I couldn’t beginto take all the calls.’”
Campaigns and Elections magazine noted in May 1994that the campaign against Clinton’s BTU proposal wasrun by a Burson-Marsteller division called the “AdvocacyCommunications Team,” headed by James E.McAvoy, a former aide to Dan Quayle and Bob Dole.Burson-Marsteller’s role in the campaign was also notedin the Legal Times (May 31, 1993), New York Times (June14, 1993), Christian Science Monitor (June 15, 1993) andPolitical Finance and Lobby Reporter (June 25, 1993). Itwas also mentioned on May 4, 1993 in the Oil Daily, apetroleum industry trade publication, which stated,“Among the petroleum industry groups joining the multimillion-dollarcampaign are the American PetroleumInstitute, the National Petroleum Refiners Associationand major oil companies, including Amoco Corp., AshlandOil Inc., Chevron Corp., Diamond Shamrock Inc.,Exxon Corp., Fina Inc., Phillips Petroleum Co. andTexaco Inc. The alliance is spearheaded by the NationalAssociation of Manufacturers (NAM). . . . The alliancehas hired the public relations powerhouse BursonMarstellerand a direct-mail firm called Direct ImpactInc. to conduct the public relations campaign.”
Finally, Burson-Marsteller itself has boasted aboutthe success of this campaign. The February 1994 issueof O’Dwyer’s PR Services Report carried a section titled“Profiles of Top Environmental PR Firms,” submittedby the PR firms themselves. Burson-Marsteller’s profilestated, “B-M’s client the American Energy Alliance wascredited by Treasury Secretary Lloyd-Bentsen in aWashington Post article as ‘one of the most sophisticatedjobs I’ve seen by lobbyists in a long time.’” The 1994issue of Washington Representatives, a comprehensivedirectory of Washington lobbyists and PR firms, also liststhe American Energy Alliance as one of BursonMarsteller’sclients.We have been trying to determine how our sourcemight have concluded that Burson-Marsteller created theGlobal Climate Coalition. It is hard to reconstruct whatmight have happened four years ago, but it is possiblethat confusion might have arisen about the differencebetween the GCC and the American Energy Alliance.In any case, Burson-Marsteller continues to workclosely with the petroleum and automobile industries.The 1997 issue of O’Dwyer’s Directory of Public RelationsFirms listed the American Petroleum Institute, BritishPetroleum, Chevron, Ford Motor Company, Mitsubishi,and Pennzoil among its clients. Other clients historicallyhave included Occidental Petroleum, Caterpillar and thegovernment of Saudi Arabia.
On November 3, 1998, the New York Times reportedthat Burson-Marsteller was behind a front group called“Californians for Realistic Vehicle Standards,” formed tooppose restrictions on automobile emissions of nitrogenoxide and other polluting gases. “The address of themonth-old lobbying group is the Sacramento headquartersof the California Chamber of Commerce,while the group’s phone number is that of the Sacramentooffice of Burson-Marsteller, an internationalpublic relations firm often used by the auto industry.Detroit auto makers provided the bulk of the money forthe new group,” the New York Times stated.Burson-Marsteller is also behind a deceptively-namedgroup called the “Foundation for Clean Air Progress”(FCAP). Judging from its name, you might think thatFCAP supports measures to control air pollution. In fact,it was formed specifically to pressure the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) not to adopt tougherair pollution controls. The Washington Post reported onJune 17, 1997 that FCAP participates in a “multimillion-dollarcampaign to turn back EPA regulations forsmog and soot. . . . The nerve center behind the attackis a coalition of more than 500 businesses and tradegroups that calls itself the Air Quality Standards Coalition.Created specifically to battle the clean air proposals,the coalition operates out of the offices of theNational Association of Manufacturers, a Washington basedtrade group. Its leadership includes top managersof petroleum, automotive and utility companies as wellas longtime Washington insiders such as C. BoydenGray, a counsel to former president George Bush. Thesame industries would likely bear the brunt of the costsfor the new regulations, which the EPA estimates at morethan $ 6 billion a year. . . . Exxon, a member of the coalition,recently sent notices to its credit card customersurging them to oppose the EPA regulations. Other companieshelped pay for TV and newspapers ads producedby the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, a nonprofitinstitute funded by energy, transportation and manufacturingcompanies that operates out of the offices ofthe public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller.”According to Frank O’Donnell, executive director ofa genuine environmental group called the Clean AirTrust, FCAP “was formed to distract the public fromthe dangers of air pollution. It tries to ignore the fact thatair pollution—much of it produced by the foundation’sfinancial backers—is still linked to tens of thousands ofpremature deaths a year.” O’Donnell noted that FCAP’smembers are also major sources of greenhouse gases(U.S. Newswire, March 16, 1998).The Tennessean reported on July 14, 1996 that FCAPwas “made up of 20 organizations” including “the AmericanPetroleum Institute, Petroleum Marketers Associationof America, American Trucking Associations,American Farm Bureau Federation and the TransportationCoalition for Clean Air. . . . The foundationitself is not listed with Washington, D.C., telephonedirectory assistance. Burson-Marsteller staffers answercalls made to a number listed in a handout.” 
PR Week Offers FreeAdvice to Philip MorrisThe Philip Morris tobacco company was recentlyforced to apologized for its role in commissioning areport which claimed that the Czech Republic benefitseconomically from the premature deaths of citizens. Evereager to help an old friend, the August 6 issue of PR Weekasked PR pros, “How can Philip Morris regain PRground following the publication of the Czech report?”Advice from the experts included:• “More advertisements praising the philanthropic activitiesof its Kraft and Miller subsidiaries would be wise.”• “The best thing for it to do is minimize its publicprofile.”• “Partner itself with a consumer watchdog group.”• “Fire all of those involved in commissioning thesestudies, and obtain confidentiality statements fromeach of them.”• “Resist interview requests; any interviews on  this willbe no-win situations.” endit

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