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=1996 aus site<ul times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small;">...Cato credits him thus: "Gough's goals include:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>exposing questionable or 'junk' science;</li><li>illuminating the opportunity costs of resulting regulations; and</li><li>combating the public's fear of chemicals.</li></ul>This is the position that Milloy and Gough both take. But now let me tell you what Milloy doesn't reveal about himself in his C/V at the junkscience site.<h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Filling In The Gaps In Milloy's C/V</h4>Until a few years ago Milloy was the director of science policy studies at NEPI, the <a href="http://www.nepi.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">National Environmental Policy Institute</a> (a part of The Center for Strategic and International Studies).This is supposedly, a public policy research institution "dedicated to analysis and policy impact"), but actually it is just another anti-science organisation funded by both the oil industry and Phillip Morris (a so-called "coalition" of companies with a common interest).It was founded by a well-known "anti-smoking" Republican Representative, Don Ritter, with money channeled from a large oil company, and then later the tobacco industry. It supposedly operates through through the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), while likely gets some of its direction and funding from Philip Morris board member, Harold Brown who lists this organisation on his C/V. Brown probably had a hand in recruiting Milloy also, since they both have a common association with John Hopkins University.The CSIS appears to have two divisions: one a legitimate right-wing think-tank with genuine scholars, housed on the John Hopkins campus at Baltimore, and the other a public-relations/lobby operation in Washington DC.This "public-policy" organisation appears to be dedicated to transforming (or destroying) both the EPA and the FDA, and challenging the Superfund clean-ups of toxic chemical locations. I guess, this is because the EPA had been far too active in promoting the Clean Air Act and opposing ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke), and because the FDA had been too restrictive on tobacco additives, and nicotine itself.The mission statement of the NEPI says it has a "commitment to providing a substantive framework for improving environmental policy and management. It draws upon the collective skill, experience and knowledge of elected officials, industry representatives, government policy makers, academics and members of the environmental and scientific communities."NEPI is dedicated to establishing realistic environmental priorities and helping to focus the national environmental debate," they say. And one of the ways they focus the debate is to have on-staff those members of the Reagan Administration who didn't get jobs with the Cato Institute.They bill themselves as "a non-profit, bipartisan organization of environmental leaders." and, to prove they have environmental credentials, they have on-board Timothy K. Judge, who is the "founder and former president of Bio-Safe Incorporated, a medical waste disposal company, [who] is currently a consultant on environmental management systems and brownfield restoration."Milloy frequently appeared on radio and television programs for the NEPI, and has testified on risk assessment and the Superfund before the American Congress. One report of such testimonial states:<ul style="">"Clearly, any meaningful reform of Superfund must address risk assessments and remediation technologies required by the EPA. Costly decisions have been made in the past because Superfund has been viewed as a cleanup program, not a risk reduction program."</ul>The NEPI's publication, Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Key to the Superfund Puzzle, says:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Sound science and more accurate risk assessments can significantly reduce the costs of remediation, while reducing real health risks when they are found. Steven J. Milloy of the NEPI suggests that the costs of cleanups would fall by 60 percent if the program focused more directly on risk when identifying the appropriate remedies."</ul>NEPI is also associated with The Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC) which represent an industry viewpoint that current clean-air regulations are adequate, and that more stringent regulations would harm business. This is actually an ad hoc coalition created by the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the National Mining Association, and others for the express purpose of fighting the EPA's proposed clean air standards.While Milloy was involved, the AQSC held numerous news "briefings", launched its own Internet web sites, and paid PR companies to place news stories proclaiming that the EPA's data is "junk science." In addition, the Coalition retained the services of political adviser to Vice President Al Gore, Carter Eskew, for a contract that is estimated at over $5 million.C Boyden Gray, an outspoken critic of the EPA's standards and a lobbyist for Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, a firm specialising in environmental and regulatory risk management, is the principle spokesman and organiser of the AQSC. He was once White House legal counsel for President Bush, and he claims to have ghostwritten the weakened Clean Water Act for Senator Bob Dole.His grandfather Bowman Gray, was the principal owner of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and his father, Gordon Gray, founded the Bowman Gray (memorial) Medical School in Winston-Salem and was actively involved in the 1940s national eugenical sterilisation movement along with other Clay relatives.C. Boyden Gray is also chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE -- a national free-market think-tank and public policy organization), which is yet another major players in the anti-clean air debate. This is another group working with the National Association of Manufacturers.The CSE appears also to be directly involved in anti-regulatory strategy planning with AQSC and they get their funding from the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, and the Chemical Manufacturers Association. The CSE's budget quadrupled from $4 million in 1991 to $17.6 million in 1995 and the organisation claims that its cash comes equally from industry, foundations and individuals.<h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Milloy's Own Astroturf</h4>Steve Milloy also runs an organisation called Citizens For The Integrity of Science, which he claims on his junkscience.com web site to be the funder and copyright owner of the site. Its registered address is at his home: 12309 Briarbush Lane, Potomac, MD 20854 -- which is also the location of his software company, Simusoft Inc.</ul>=The National Environmental Policy Institute is an anti-regulatory Washington, D.C think tank that specifically promotes abolishing environmental regulations on business. Supporting companies have included Bethlehem Steel, Exxon, and Shell Oil.

According to NEPI's website, NEPI critiques environmental regulation through " incorporation of sound science, consideration of risks, costs, and benefits of proposed regulation or statute" and its goal is "to foster common-sense approaches to environmental policymaking" (http://www.nepi.org/aboutnepi.htm). In addition to its Congressional Advisory Board, NEPI has a State Advisory Board consisting of State legislators.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=56sourcewatch page gone?koch $<h2 style="">Milloy the Lobbyist</h2>Milloy has spent much of his life as a lobbyist for major corporations and trade organizations which have poisioning or polluting problems. He originally ran the<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=56" class="external text" title="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=56" rel="nofollow" style="">National Environmental Policy Institute</a> (NEPI) which was founded by Republican Rep <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Ritter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Ritter (page does not exist)" style="">Don Ritter</a> (who tried to get <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style="">tobacco industry</a> funding) using oil and gas industry funding.[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:Citation_needed" title="SourceWatch:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] NEPI was dedicated to transforming both the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect" style="">EPA</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FDA" title="FDA" class="mw-redirect" style="">FDA</a>, and challenging the cost of Superfund toxic cleanups by these large corporations.NEPI was also associated with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Air_Quality_Standards_Coalition" title="Air Quality Standards Coalition">Air Quality Standards Coalition</a> (AQSC) which was devoted to weakening Clean Air laws. This organization took up the cry of "we need <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sound_science" title="Sound science">sound science</a>" from the chemical industry as a way to counter claims of pollution -- and Milloy became involved in what became known as the "sound-science" movement. Its most effective ploy was to label scientific findings that were detrimental to the large funding corporations as "junk." Milloy was one of its most effective lobbyists because he wrote well, and used humor.<a href="http://www.lions.odu.edu/org/scienceandreason/srhr/links/milloy-1.htm" style="">http://www.lions.odu.edu/org/scienceandreason/srhr/links/milloy-1.htm</a>s fistsome rep<ul style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This "public-policy" organisation appears to be dedicated to transforming (or destroying) both the EPA and the FDA, and challenging the Superfund clean-ups of toxic chemical locations. I guess, this is because the EPA had been far too active in promoting the Clean Air Act and opposing ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke), and because the FDA had been too restrictive on tobacco additives, and nicotine itself.The mission statement of the NEPI says it has a "commitment to providing a substantive framework for improving environmental policy and management. It draws upon the collective skill, experience and knowledge of elected officials, industry representatives, government policy makers, academics and members of the environmental and scientific communities."NEPI is dedicated to establishing realistic environmental priorities and helping to focus the national environmental debate," they say. And one of the ways they focus the debate is to have on-staff those members of the Reagan Administration who didn't get jobs with the Cato Institute.They bill themselves as "a non-profit, bipartisan organization of environmental leaders." and, to prove they have environmental credentials, they have on-board Timothy K. Judge, who is the "founder and former president of Bio-Safe Incorporated, a medical waste disposal company, [who] is currently a consultant on environmental management systems and brownfield restoration."Milloy frequently appeared on radio and television programs for the NEPI, and has testified on risk assessment and the Superfund before the American Congress. One report of such testimonial states:<ul>
"Clearly, any meaningful reform of Superfund must address risk assessments and remediation technologies required by the EPA. Costly decisions have been made in the past because Superfund has been viewed as a cleanup program, not a risk reduction program."</ul>The NEPI's publication, Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Key to the Superfund Puzzle, says:<ul>
"Sound science and more accurate risk assessments can significantly reduce the costs of remediation, while reducing real health risks when they are found. Steven J. Milloy of the NEPI suggests that the costs of cleanups would fall by 60 percent if the program focused more directly on risk when identifying the appropriate remedies."</ul>NEPI is also associated with The Air Quality Standards Coalition (AQSC) which represent an industry viewpoint that current clean-air regulations are adequate, and that more stringent regulations would harm business. This is actually an ad hoc coalition created by the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, the National Mining Association, and others for the express purpose of fighting the EPA's proposed clean air standards.While Milloy was involved, the AQSC held numerous news "briefings", launched its own Internet web sites, and paid PR companies to place news stories proclaiming that the EPA's data is "junk science." In addition, the Coalition retained the services of political adviser to Vice President Al Gore, Carter Eskew, for a contract that is estimated at over $5 million.C Boyden Gray, an outspoken critic of the EPA's standards and a lobbyist for Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, a firm specialising in environmental and regulatory risk management, is the principle spokesman and organiser of the AQSC. He was once White House legal counsel for President Bush, and he claims to have ghostwritten the weakened Clean Water Act for Senator Bob Dole.His grandfather Bowman Gray, was the principal owner of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and his father, Gordon Gray, founded the Bowman Gray (memorial) Medical School in Winston-Salem and was actively involved in the 1940s national eugenical sterilisation movement along with other Clay relatives.C. Boyden Gray is also chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE -- a national free-market think-tank and public policy organization), which is yet another major players in the anti-clean air debate. This is another group working with the National Association of Manufacturers.The CSE appears also to be directly involved in anti-regulatory strategy planning with AQSC and they get their funding from the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, and the Chemical Manufacturers Association. The CSE's budget quadrupled from $4 million in 1991 to $17.6 million in 1995 and the organisation claims that its cash comes equally from industry, foundations and individuals.</ul>--<ul style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/bullet.gif"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Without-Sense-Steven-Milloy/dp/1882577345" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Without-Sense-Steven-Milloy/dp/1882577345" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research</a>, Cato Institute, 1995;</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Based-Risk-Assessment-Superfund-Puzzle/dp/0964746301" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/Science-Based-Risk-Assessment-Superfund-Puzzle/dp/0964746301" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); outline: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Piece of the Superfund Puzzle</a>, National Environmental Policy Institute, 1995;</li></ul>=off BSNational Environmental Policy Institute  how clean is clean?Rolling Stewardship builds on the concept of “stewardship” by focusing on the links needed between generations to carry long-term stewardship forward. The current generation cannot determine the actions future generations will take, but it can ensure that the next generation is aware of residual contamination and is handed the proper tools to make sound and protective decisions (including passing updated information to the next further generation). <div>
</div>The National Environmental Policy Institute (NEPI) was founded in 1993 to promote greater environmental benefits through more effective and efficient environmental policies and management.  NEPI is a non-profit, bipartisan organization of environmental leaders from across the United States. It advances new ideas for developing environmental policies based on sound science and consideration of risks, costs and benefits.  NEPI seeks to build common ground among diverse constituencies while fostering a holistic view of an often fragmented field. It draws upon the collective skill, experience and knowledge of elected officials, business representatives, government policy-makers, legal experts, academics, members of the environmental and scientific communities, and citizen organizations.  NEPI’s projects are designed to provide a substantive basis for a realistic environmental agenda. NEPI is successful in providing a forum for discussion, evaluation and collaboration among those involved in the environmental policy process as well as facilitating public dialogue and education about the major environmental issues of our time.  <a href="https://ndep.nv.gov/lts/rollings.pdf"> https://ndep.nv.gov/lts/rollings.pdf</a>The Tower Building 1401 K Street, NW M-103 Washington, DC 20005  P/202.857.4784 F/202.833.5977 nepi@nepi.org www.nepi.org <div>
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