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Nuclear Energy Institute

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) was a founding member of AEEG. "As a member of the Alliance, we will encourage investment in energy technologies that improve efficiency, increase output and protect the environment," stated NEI's Joe F. Colvin in a May 2001 press release. ^[3]

NEI's financial report for 2006 lists AEEG as both an expense and a source of income. Under "program expenses," NEI lists "Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth," with the cost being $2,918,120. Under "income-producing activities," NEI again lists AEEG, as bringing in $3,012,173 in revenues. NEI's 2006 financial report describes AEEG as "educate the public and policymakers about the need for a comprehensive energy strategy." ^[4]

But NEI's 2007 financial report filed with the IRS no longer lists AEEG as an expense or a source of revenue, which may indicate that NEI is no longer a financial contributor to AEEG. ^[5]

According to the DeSmogBlog, "AEEG's voice mail directs you call Rob Dubrow at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) for questions regarding billing." ^[6]

Website contacts

AEEG's website, yourenergyfuture.org, is registered to Gordon Barnes at the American Gas Association. The webmaster contact given is the Edison Electric Institute. The website was created on April 24, 2001, according to domain registration records. ^[7]

Lobbying

Lobbying disclosure forms filed with the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records list two lobbyists for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who advocated on behalf of AEEG.

In 2002, Geraldine Ferraro (then with the Golin Harris firm) registered to lobby on behalf of AEEG on the "Yucca Mountain initiative," referring to the proposed nuclear waste repository site in Nevada. Later disclosure forms said the lobbying contract was terminated in November 2002, with some $100,000 having been spent ($60,000 in the first half of 2002 and $40,000 in the second half).

Also in 2002, JHS Associates registered to lobby behalf of AEEG, on "energy / nuclear policy issues related to Public Law No 97425." The lobbyist identified on the contract was John H. Sununu. This contract was terminated in December 2002, with less than $10,000 spent in each half of the calendar year.

Members

AEEG's website says it has "more than 1,200 members" and represents "consumers; energy companies involved in all phases of energy exploration, production and transmission; agricultural groups; and business and labor organizations." ^[8] It does not list its members on its website.

While "general membership in the Alliance is free ... there is a fee for participation on the Alliance Steering Committee," states AEEG's website. ^[9] A brochure on the AEEG website lists the following Steering Committee members, as of March 29, 2005: ^[10]

Personnel

Members of the Management Committee

On its website, as of February 2009, the alliance listed the members of its management committee as being^[11]

James May, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Air Transport Association of America
Dave McCurdy, President & Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Donna Harman, President and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association
David Parker, President and CEO of the American Gas Association
Andrew Sharkey, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Iron and Steel Institute
Red Cavaney, President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute
Edward Hamberger, President & CEO of the Association of American Railroads
Thomas Kuhn, President of the Edison Electric Institute
Donald Santa Jr., President & CEO of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America
Jay Timmons, the Executive Vice President of the National Association of Manufacturers
Evan Gaddis, President and CEO of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Kraig Naasz, President and CEO of the National Mining Association
Frank Bowman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute
John Shaw, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs for the Portland Cement Association
R. Josten, Executive Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Contact info

Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth

1615 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20062-2000

Phone: 202-463-5642

Fax: 202-887-3445

Email: info AT yourenergyfuture.org

Web: http://www.yourenergyfuture.org

Resources and articles

References

↑ "Your Energy Future," AEEG website, accessed March 2008.
↑ U.S. Chamber of Commerce, [http://www.uschamber.com/NR/rdonlyres/e5hbltk43bftaej6v7kfjc5olgblcltbumsgzdnr3refbxmo6m6ei6dkwwm4qogdtpazfvms2gmr4jdufe5mfdba3ff/032306lbRPT2005AnnualReport.pdf "Environment, Technology & Regulatory Affairs"], U.S. Chamber of Commerce, page 13.
↑ "Alliance for Energy & Economic Growth Calls for Comprehensive National Energy Policy," NEI press release, May 2, 2001.
↑ "Nuclear Energy Institute IRS form 990 report for 2006 (PDF), via GuideStar, accessed February 2008.
↑ "[1]Nuclear Energy Institute IRS form 990 report for 2007, via GuideStar.
↑ "Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth," DeSmogBlog profile, accessed March 2008.
↑ "yourenergyfuture.org domain registration information" via Network Solutions, accessed March 2008.
↑ "Your Energy Future - Members," AEEG website, accessed March 2008.
↑ "Your Energy Future - Contact us," AEEG website, accessed March 2008.
↑ "Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth brochure (PDF)," AEEG website, accessed March 2008.
↑ Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, "Members of the management committee", Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth website, accessed February 2009.

External articles

"United Seniors Association: Hired Guns for PhRMA and Other Corporate Interests", Public Citizen, July 2002.
David Roberts, "Industry groups lobby against climate legislation", Grist, December 7, 2007.
"US Chamber, National Association of Manufacturers and Industry Front Group Kick Off Four-State Tour to Kill Senate Climate Change Bill", Common Dreams, March 12, 2008.
Justin Willet, "Industry groups decry cap-and-trade cost", Columbia Daily Tribune, April 2, 2009.
Darren Samuelsohn, "Obama Aides Meet With Senate Dems to Map April Strategy for Climate Bill ", The New York Times, March 25, 2010.

External resources

Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_Energy_and_Economic_Growth"

The Wonk Room

The Alliance For Energy And Economic Growth Is A Bunch Of Right-Wing Pollutocrats

By Brad Johnson on Mar 26th, 2010 at 12:19 pm

The Alliance For Energy And Economic Growth Is A Bunch Of Right-Wing Pollutocrats

Per Matt Yglesias’s note that the “male-dominated nature of Wall Street is a source of dysfunction,” meet the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth:

These fourteen men are the representatives of the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG) who are meeting with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and Sen. Lindsey Graham to negotiate the terms of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation. The AEEG is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-managed working group of the trade associations representing America’s carbon-pollution industries, founded in 2001. Five of these AEEG representatives sit on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Association Committee of 100, helping shape the organization’s policy.

Five of the groups are suing to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding that greenhouse gases are harmful pollutants — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Portland Cement Association, and the American Farm Bureau Federation. The American Petroleum Institute ran an astroturf campaign against the House climate legislation last year, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for a “Scopes monkey trial” on the science of climate change.

The least conservative of the industry lobbyists are Dave McCurdy of the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, a former New Democrat congressman from Oklahoma (and Wonk Room guest blogger), and former general Evan Gaddis of the National Electric Manufacturers Association. Seven of the lobbyists were George W. Bush contributors, and two others — Erik Heilman and Rich Nolan — were Republican staffers. The overall political contributions of these fourteen men is whoppingly Republican, either as a direct contribution or funneled through conservativeindustry political action committees. They’ve donated $326,497 to Republican candidates compared to $100,346 to Democrats, more than a three-to-one ratio:

Contributions from AEEG Representatives

The Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth representatives meeting with Sen. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman:

Industry Representatives at Climate Negotiations Representative Title Organization Pct D


Marv Fertel	director and CEO	Nuclear Energy Institute	13
Evan Gaddis	president and CEO	National Electrical Manufacturers Association	47
Jack Gerard	president and CEO	American Petroleum Institute	20
Ed Hamberger	president and CEO	American Association of Railroads	5
Erik Heilman	senior director of government affairs	American Forest & Paper Association	N/A
Bruce Josten	executive vice president for government affairs	U.S. Chamber of Commerce	14
Tom Kuhn	president	Edison Electric Institute	28
Mark Maslyn	executive director of public policy	American Farm Bureau	N/A
James C. May	president and CEO	Air Transport Association	33
Dave McCurdy	president and CEO	Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers	76
Rich Nolan	vice president of government affairs	National Mining Association	0
David N. Parker	president and CEO	American Gas Association	27
John S. Shaw	senior vice president of government affairs	Portland Cement Association	0
Jay Timmons	executive vice president	National Association of Manufacturers	2
Pct D: Percentage of political contributions to Democrats.	Pct D: Percentage of political contributions to Democrats.	Pct D: Percentage of political contributions to Democrats.	Pct D: Percentage of political contributions to Democrats.

desmog climate lawsuits

June 24–25, 2020

API was highlighted in a lawsuit from the Minnesota Attorney General’s office that also called out Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Koch Industries, Inc., and the Koch-owned Flint Hills Resources LP and Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change. [87]

“When corporations and trade associations break the law and hurt Minnesotans, it’s my job and my duty to hold them accountable. The fraud, deceptive advertising, and other violations of Minnesota state law and common law that the lawsuit shows they perpetrated have harmed Minnesotans’ health and our state’s environment, infrastructure, and economy,” said Attorney General Keith Ellison, as reported in the AG office press release. [88]

“Previously unknown internal documents were recently discovered that confirm that Defendants well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate, including Minnesota, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. But Defendants did not ever disclose to the public—or to Minnesotans—their actual knowledge that would confirm the very science they sought to undermine. Instead, Defendants, both directly and through proxies, engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective. This campaign was intended to, and did, target and influence the public, and consumers, including in Minnesota,” the lawsuit reads. [89]

Discussing API‘s role:

“API has been a member of at least five organizations that have promoted disinformation about fossil-fuel products to consumers, including the Global Climate Coalition, Partnership for a Better Energy Future, Coalition for American Jobs, Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, and Alliance for Climate Strategies. These front groups were formed to provide climate disinformation and advocacy from a seemingly objective source, when, in fact, they were financed and controlled by ExxonMobil and other sellers of fossil-fuel products. Defendants benefited from the spread of this disinformation.”

On Koch, the lawsuit suggests that the company is liable for the various actions of its numerous subsidiaries involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum products. It also notes:

“Koch also supports numerous foundations including the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, the Koch Institute, and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation. Koch expects the foundations that it supports to fund groups that further its financial interests. Koch constructively controls how the foundations that it supports direct their philanthropic activities.”

It also notes that, like numerous other oil companies, “Koch also understood climate-change science, the connection to sales of its fossil fuel products, and the potential for catastrophic consequences before the science was widely understood by the general public.”

It highlights what appeared to be a coordinated effort by companies including Koch to “combat climate change ‘alarmists’ through a campaign focused on science, information dissemination, and politics.” It highlights a 2006 memo from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association that outlined how Koch Industries was working with other large corporations including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Southern Company, American Electric Power (AEP), and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

Shortly after, the D.C. Attorney General’s Office joined in a similar lawsuit against BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell. The lawsuit alleges the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies violated the District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act by promoting and selling fossil fuel products contributing to global warming, while knowing about the harmful consequences since at least the 1950s. [90]

The lawsuit highlights the industry’s use of fake grassroots groups, such as the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which started out as a front group for tobacco giant Philip Morris in 1993. This group had transitioned to become the Advancement of Sound Science Center in 1997 and was run out of the home of climate science denier Steve Milloy, who most recently worked in public relations for coal company Murray Energy, before being disbanded. [90]

According to a press release from the D.C. Attorney General’s Office, “The [oil] companies not only employed the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition — a fake grassroots citizen group created by Big Tobacco as part of the industry’s misinformation campaign — they also funded and promoted some of the same scientists hired by tobacco companies. These scientists disputed the conclusions of climate researchers, despite not having any training in climate science themselves.” [91]

“For decades, these oil and gas companies spent millions to mislead consumers and discredit climate science in pursuit of profits,” said AG Racine. “The defendants violated the District’s consumer protection law by concealing the fact that using fossil fuels threatens the health of District residents and the environment. OAG filed this suit to end these disinformation campaigns and to hold these companies accountable for their deceptive practices.

March 20, 2020

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Case Study: Koch Organizations Instrumental in Dissemination of ACCF/NAM Claims

The Koch web is playing a role in promoting studies that exaggerate the costs of climate policy. In 2008, the Koch-web-funded American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF) teamed up with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) to sponsor and disseminate a study of the economic impact of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. Every step of the way, Koch-funded anti-clean energy groups played a key role in moving the NAM/ACCF study in the media and at the grassroots level.

ACCF funded and co-released the study with NAM.
ACCF disseminated the results in presentations at over a dozen "Climate Dialogues" organized by theU.S. Chamber's Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG).
The AEEG "climate dialogues" involved other organizations funded through the Koch web, including:
- The Heritage Foundation which provided speakers for some events;
- Frontiers of Freedom staff and scholars participated in some of the dialogues.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/case-study-koch-organizations/

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American Council for Capital Formation

American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is a think tank that prides itself on "economic growth through sound tax, regulatory, and environmental policies." ACCF is a very influential in Washington D.C. with ACCF's President Mark Bloomfield as being, "one of the most influential figures operating behind the scenes in the Congress," Robert Novak, 1997.

ACCF has a conservative perspective of economic policy and favors policies that favor big business. ACCF's Officers and Board of Directors included former high-ranking politicians (predominantly Republican) in the U.S. government along with representatives of industry associations, including individuals from the American Petroleum Institute, Principal Financial Group, American Chemistry Council, American Farm Bureau Federation, American Business Conference, American Forest & Paper Association, Edison Electric Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and other pro-industry trade associations and corporations. Individuals from the American Enterprise Institute, and the Hoover Institution are members of ACCF's Board of Scholars.

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Board

Accessed May 2010: ^[1]

Bill Archer - former Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee as Republican congressman from Texas for 30 years.
Mark A. Bloomfield - President and CEO, American Council for Capital Formation and host of the blog, www.MrCapitalGains.com
Red Cavaney - former President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute, founder of American Plastics Council and current SVP at ConocoPhillips
Kenneth M. Duberstein - former Chief of Staff to President Reagan and chairman of the Duberstein Group
John Engler - President and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
Glenn English - CEO, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Robert W. Galvin - Chairman Emeritus, Motorola, Inc.
William H. Gray III - former Chairman, House Committee on the Budget and Democratic Majority Whip, now chairman of lobbyist group, Gray Loeffler, LLC
Donna A. Harman - President and CEO, American Forest & Paper Association
M. Christine Jacobs - Chairman, President and CEO, Theragenics Corporation
James R. Jones - former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Congressman from Oklahoma
Jim Kolbe - former Republican congressional representative for Arizona, from 1985 to 2007
Thomas R. Kuhn - President, Edison Electric Institute
Donald L. Lucas - Venture Capitalist and former owner of the automotive dealership Lucas Dealership Group
Frederic V. Malek - Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners, L.P. and Republican politician most recently serving as co-Finance chair for the McCain campaign
Dave McCurdy - President, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and former conservative Democratic congressman from Oklahoma
William J. McDonough - Vice Chairman & Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Kyle E. McSlarrow - President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Don Nickles - former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Budget and Republican U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005
Michael G. Oxley - former Republican Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services as a congressman from Ohio
Gerald L. Parsky - Chairman, Aurora Capital Group and Republican politician who has served all 5 US presidents since Richard Nixon
Richard W. Rahn - Chairman, Novecon and on Board of Directors of the taxfree offshore financial center, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority from 2002-2008
David Rehr - President and CEO, National Association of Broadcasters
William D. Ruckelshaus - former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Nixon and Reagan administrations
George P. Shultz - former Secretary of State in the Reagan administration
Charles W. Stenholm - former Member of Congress as a conservative Democrat
Robert S. Strauss - former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, trade negotiator and head of Democratic Party under Jimmy Carter
Margo Thorning - Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, American Council for Capital Formation
Charls E. Walker - Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Council for Capital Formation, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Steven A. Wechsler - President and CEO, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
Mark A. Weinberger - former Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), U.S. Department of the Treasury
John C. Whitehead - former Deputy Secretary of State in the Reagan adminstration

Contact details

1750 K Street, N.W.

Suite 400

Washington, D.C. 20006

Phone: (202) 293-5811

Fax: (202) 785-8165

Web: http://www.accf.org

External links

Jonathan Weisman,"White House Intensifies Push for Tax Plan", Washington Post, Jan 16, 2003.

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American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)

$215,000 received from Koch foundations 2005–2008

[Total Koch foundation grants 1997–2008: $225,000]

ACCF has partnered twice with the National Association of Manufacturers to produce and disseminate distorted economic

analyses188 that overstate the costs of climate legislation and have been prominently featured at US Chamber of Commerce organized

“forums”189 on climate over the past year. The ACCF/NAM studies have been credibly debunked190 more than once.191

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

References

↑ Directors, American Council for Capital Formation, accessed May 9, 2010.

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Who’s Behind the Smears

Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG) was created by the U. S. Chamber Of Commerce and is led by a VIP list of companies that oppose clean energy and climate legislation. AEEG has organized numerous climate change "dialogues" with state-level Chambers of Commerce, which typically include industry-sponsored economic impact studies which paint doom-and-gloom scenarios of massive job losses and higher energy costs (example here), presentations that raise doubts about the science, and presentations on the difficulty of doing anything about global warming. Even these slanted studies actually show healthy economic growth under federal climate policy, but these results are not presented to the public. For the real story on clean energy jobs check out NRDC economist Laurie Johnson’s blog.

American Council For Capital Formation (ACCF) has partnered twice with the National Association Of Manufacturers to produce and disseminate distorted economic analyses that overstate the costs of climate legislation and which have been prominently featured at the US Chamber of Commerce-organized "forums" on climate over the past year. The ACCF/NAM studies have been credibly debunked more than once. ACCF has been supported by a number of major corporate interests, including ExxonMobil, Southern Co. and the American Petroleum Institute.

American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is the number one group representing Big Coal. Created through the renaming and merger of two former front groups, Americans For Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) and Center For Energy And Economic Development (CEED), ACCCE members and funders include a number of companies directly and indirectly reliant upon coal as a major source of revenue. According to ACCCE’s 2008 tax return, the group brought in $47 million in revenues, nearly 7 times what it reported the previous year. Coal companies and the nation's biggest railroad association accounted for fifty percent of ACCCE’s budget in 2008. ACCCE opposed the Waxman-Markey climate bill, and recently Duke Energy left the group because of its entrenched opposition to meaningful climate legislation. The organization's lobbying expenses in 2009 have been left murky by a revision of their disclosure report which removed more than $10 million from their reported expenditures on federal lobbying (see ACCCE's 2nd quarter 2009 reports before and after).

Already infamous for its campaign featuring animated lumps of coal singing Christmas carols revised to tout coal's virtues, ACCCE's most recent embarrassment has blown into a full-fledged scandal: Bonner & Associates, Washington DC's most famous 'astroturf' consulting firms, was forced to admit that it had produced and sent forged letters to members of Congress opposing clean energy and climate legislation, on behalf of ACCCE. The scandal has resulted in Rep. Edward Markey's House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to investigate ACCCE's campaign.

American Energy Alliance (AEA) is a 501(c)4 political action group the National Association Of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute formed to fight the Clinton administration's BTU tax proposal in 1993, and in recent years funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. Now coupled with the 501(c) (3) Institute For Energy Research and run by Thomas Pyle, (former aide to Republican Tom DeLay and former lobbyist for Koch Industries and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association) veteran oil lobbyist. AEA has been active in the climate debate, from running ads repeating false claims about the costs of climate legislation to trashing clean energy at town halls around the US - this time using false claims about the dangers of clean energy jobs.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has a long track record of distorting the science and solutions of climate change. Its arguments tend to de-emphasize the environmental and economic risks of climate change, exaggerate the costs of addressing the problem and question the value of putting a policy in place at all, as this recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by AEI fellow Steven Hayward. In 2007, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that AEI was offering to pay scientists $10,000 to debunk global warming. AEI has received substantial funding from ExxonMobil and has received tobacco funding from Philip Morris.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is one-stop shopping for elected officials interested in perusing the wares of an array of Koch-funded opposition organizations including Institute for Energy Research, American Council For Capital Formation, the Mercatus Center and other sources. ALEC publishes its own materials as well, including a “Climate Change Overview for State Legislators” which downplays the science and risks of global warming and exaggerates the costs of addressing it. The Overview was written by Daniel Simmons, who moved from ALEC to become the American Energy Alliance’s Director of State Affairs. ALEChas received funding from ExxonMobil and has been associated with the tobacco industry.

American Solutions for Winning the Future, a 527 political organization chaired by Newt Gingrich, has been fighting clean energy for several years. Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company and one of the groups biggest backers, has contributed $250,000 in the most recent 2010 election cycle to support American Solutions' activities. The oil and gas company Devon Energy also contributed $250,000, while Arch Coal, the utility American Electric Power and oil services company Plains Exploration and Production gave $100,000 each. Recently, Media Matters reported the group tried to downplay the impact of the Gulf oil disaster oil by claiming natural oil leaks in the Gulf are greater than the blown oil well in the Gulf. But as the oil spews into the ocean at a rate many times higher than first estimated, no oil-whether man made or natural-is good for the ocean environment. The Gingrich group also has been attacking the American Power Act as a gas tax that would hurt the economy, a specious claim debunked by the recent economic report by the Peterson Institute. In 2009, American Solutions ran a misleading TV advertisement against the American Clean Energy and Security Act shortly before it was passed by the US House in June, organized an email-drive targeting members of Congress and continues to collect signatures and mobilize its followers to oppose clean energy and climate legislation.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a front-group founded and funded by members of the family that owns Koch Industries, one of the largest privately-held companies in the world, with $100 billion in sales and 70,000 employees. According to an extensive investigative report by Greenpeace, AFP received more than $5 million from Koch family foundations from 2005-2008. In 2008, Koch Industries executive vp and board member the David H. Koch was listed as chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Various members of the Koch family make up of the most consistent sources of funding of opposition to clean energy, including $1,000,000 to AFP in recent years. Beginning in 2008, AFP organized Astroturf "hot air balloon" events to highlight their opposition to clean energy and climate legislation, a tactic they resumed in the summer of 2009. They are continuing to fund anti-climate change events in 2010. This Astroturf campaign has been repeatedly exposed, including this item in the Wall Street Journal's blog Environmental Capital.

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) denies the science of global warming and opposes federal policies to address it. ATR focused on costs and denial in their 2008 “Cost of Government” report. ATR is run by conservative Washington insiderGrover Norquist, who once wrote a letter along with the Competitive Enterprise Institute demanding that the Bush Administration withdraw its Climate Action Report 2002 posted on the EPA website because it was based on “junk science.” ATR has received funding from ExxonMobil and the tobacco industry.

APCO Asssociates, now APCO Worldwide, was a PR agency that partnered with Philip Morris to develop grassroots and science front groups such as The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC). It supported tobacco industry views on regulation and other anti-regulatory efforts on topics such as global warming. TASSC was headed by junk science king and climate science denier Steve Milloy, who still is hosted on Fox News shows as a science expert on global warming.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation has cosponsored Heartland Institute events dedicated to the proposition that climate change is not a crisis and has supported organizations such as the John Locke Foundation, a group that has attacked efforts by state elected officials working on climate solutions with the Alliance for Climate Strategies. Atlas has helped spawn dozens of conservative libertarian think tanks such as the Manhattan Institute. Atlas has received money from Philip Morris and Exxon.

The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change is run by Sherwood Idso and his sons Craig and Keith, long-time climate science deniers. The Center runs the science denial site CO2 Science. The group has worked with the Greening Earth Society, founded by the Western Fuels Association. It also has received funding from ExxonMobil.

Per its unapologetically Orwellian name, CO2isGreen runs anti-climate/clean energy advertisements reflecting the strident climate science denial sentiments of the oil and coal executives who run it. H. Leighton Steward is chairman of CO2IsGreen.org and the related front group PlantsNeedCO2.org. Steward has worked at Shell and Burlington Resources. He has chaired the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, the Natural Gas Supply Association, and the Louisiana Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association. Steward currently serves on the board of the oil and gas company EOG Resources. In 2001, Steward was awarded the American Petroleum Institute's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement. The Washington Post reports: "Steward has joined forces with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources that lets other companies mine in return for royalties." According to Astrotruth.org: "[Robertson] is the CEO of Natural Resources Partners L.P., which belongs to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. ACCCE is a 'pro coal group' that is linked to at least thirteen fraudulent letters mailed to members of Congress purporting to be from seniors, veterans, African American, Latino and Women's organizations expressing opposition to ACES. In 2008, ACCCE spent at least $45 million on a clean coal advertising campaign, and during the first two quarters of 2009, ACCCE has spent over a million dollars in direct federal lobbying."

Coalition for Affordable American Energy (CAAE) is a coalition of more than 180 trade associations sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. CAAE is chiefly responsible for a misleading study projecting job losses and increased energy costs, under an Obama energy plan, and they won praise from President George W. Bush for their support of offshore domestic oil drilling. CAAE was formed in 2008 to push for a pro-oil drilling agenda with industry heavyweights.

Capital Research Center (CRC) runs the GreenWatch.org website collects information on non-profit environmental advocates, and is heavily biased against climate science.CRC has taken funding fromExxon and Philip Morris.

The Cato Institute tends to focus on disputing the science behind global warming and questioning the rationale for taking action. The organization’s 2009 “Handbook for Policymakers” on global warming begins with the suggestions that Congress should “pass no legislation restricting emissions of carbon dioxide” and “inform the public about how little climate change would be prevented by proposed legislation.” Robert Bradley, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, is also a founder and the CEO of the Institute for Energy Research. In 2007 the Cato Foundation gave $120,000 to New Hope Environmental Services, a "an advocacy science consulting firm" founded and run by long-time climate science denier Patrick J. Michaels, who uses New Hope to public his World Climate Report, a sort of ongoing journal of denial of climate science. Michaels is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, which paid him $98,000 to write a book “The Satanic Gases” with fellow skeptic Robert Balling. Over the years, Michaels’ work has been financed by a number of coal and polluter interests, including the Western Fuels Association and the Intermountain Rural Electric Association. According to an investigative report by Greenpeace, Cato received family foundation grants from oil services giant Koch Industries worth $3,358,000 between 1997 and 2008.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) is a major critic of climate science and helped organize a conference during the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen to dispute ongoing efforts to combat global warming. CFACT advisors include Patrick Michaels, Michael Fumento and Dennis Avery, major critical voices of climate change science. CFACT has been funded by conservative foundations and Exxon, among others.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is one of the oldest conservative think tanks dating back to the Reagan years of the 1980s. It has also been closely involved in putting out misinformation about global warming, and stated a front group called the Cooler Heads Coalition in 1997, a group of conservative and fossil fuel funded organizations opposed to efforts to implement clean energy regulations and cut global CO2 emissions. CEI has been a major recipient of funding from Exxon and other oil companies. Last year, CEI was behind the specious claim that the government was hiding evidence that fighting global warming would cost more than it was saying publicly. CEI has also jumped on the hackergate bandwagon making outrageous claims that the stolen emails were proof that global warming was a fraud. CEI was also a close ally of Philip Morris and has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from Big Tobacco. Read more.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in 1942 to champion civil rights. Its chairman and CEO is Roy Innis, also on the board of the conservative Hudson Institute which receives funding from Koch Industries. Between 2003 and 2006, ExxonMobil donated more than $275,000 to CORE, including for projects described as "Global Climate Change Environmental Outreach." CORE has focused on opposing clean energy and climate legislation by claiming it would raise energy prices disproportionately for minorities. CORE's original founders have criticized the organization for "renting out" its reputation to companies like ExxonMobil.

The Cooler Heads Coalition is a loose association of more than a dozen conservative climate skeptic groups and publishes the website globalwarming.org. It was hosted and financed by the anti-regulatory group Consumer Alert and is chaired by Myron Ebell, who directs the global warming and energy policy program at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Energy Citizens is a "grass roots" campaign against climate and energy legislation which has organized rallies in the Midwest and South during the August Congressional recess. The Energy Citizens coalition includes business and industry groups and conservative advocacy organizations like Freedomworks. Greenpeace USA recently exposed Energy Citizens' funding ties to the oil industry, including the American Petroleum Institute.

Fraser Institute, a Canadian based anti-regulatory think tank, publishes in-depth critiques of climate science, including a 110-page report attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment report. The Institute also offers lesson plans and educational materials designed to encourage children to be skeptical of mainstream climate science. The Fraser Institute has sought funding from thetobacco industry and has received funding from ExxonMobil.

FreedomWorks is an Astroturf campaign organization run by Dick Armey, former Republican House Majority Leader and noted corporate lobbyist. In 2004 FreedomWorks merged with Citizens for a Sound Economy, a major advocacy group founded by oil services giant Koch Industries executive David Koch. Freedomworks has been a driving force behind the anti-healthcare, anti-tax, anti-clean energy opposition groups showing up at town halls and rallies across the states, and it has asked its "grass roots activists" to send a letter to members of Congress. In 2009 Freedomworks joined the Energy Citizens coalition, which is funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute and other organizations. Read More.

Frontiers of Freedom Foundation(FF) was formed in 1996 by former Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop as an anti-regulatory think tank. It has hosted some 55 articles on its website focusing on climate science denial and high estimates of the cost of climate policy. Frontiers of Freedom reinforced the Tax Foundation’s characterization of cap-and-trade as a tax on the poor and middle class. FF also smears climate science and spreads climate disinformation. FF has worked closely with and has been funded by the tobacco industry and ExxonMobil.

Foundation for Research on Energy and the Environment (FREE) sponsors controversial seminars for federal judges that promote “free market environmentalism,” events that have been criticized for creating judicial conflicts of interest. FREE states it does not accept direct corporate support for its judicial seminars and only takes money from foundations whose founder is deceased (called dead-men foundations). A Koch report on its FREE funding raised questions about the accuracy of the disclosure.

George C. Marshall Institute produced a “Cocktail Conversation Guide” on with suggestions for denying the dangers of global warming in any “social setting.” The Marshall Institute was originally established in the 1980s to promote President Reagan’s Star wars program but in recent years it has increasingly turned its attention to climate change. It has promoted climate skeptic Patrick Michaels books on its website and has received substantial funding from ExxonMobil. Its former chairman was Frederick Seitz, a climate skeptic and former tobacco consultant.

The Heartland Institute is a conservative think tank that strongly criticizes climate science and runs a web site that includes misleading information about the science behind climate change. Heartland has hosted annual conferences to dispute consensus agreements around climate change. It also promoted the faulty Spanish green jobs study that was debunked by experts. Heartland is funded by conservative foundations and fossil fuel companies such as Exxon. It has received funding from and been a frequent ally of the tobacco industry.

The Heritage Foundation is a mainstay of misinformation and exaggeration when it comes to climate and policy issues. In the last couple of years, Heritage has misinterpreted of the impacts of global warming on the US economy, twisted news reports to justify scary claims about ‘climate taxes’, issued bad economic analyses and deceptive presentations, and released exaggerated claims about economic ruin and impacts in the agricultural sector should Congress pass climate legislation. This is only a representative sample. The Heritage Foundation also teamed up with the Institute for Energy Research to promote the widely debunked “Spanish” study. Heritage has been funded by ExxonMobil and tobacco companies. According to an investigative report by Greenpeace, oil services giant Koch Industries and its family foundations gave the Heritage Foundation grants worth $3,358,000 between 1997 and 2008

Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) spread misinformation on climate science and touts the work of climate deniers. IWF is run by Nancy Pfotenhauer (formerly Nancy Mitchell), Koch Industries’ chief in-house lobbyist from 1996 to 2001 when she left Koch to become the director of the IWF. In 2003, IWF affiliated itself with Americans for Prosperity, which replaced Citizens for a Sound Economy. IWF is funded primarily by conservative foundations.

Institute for Energy Research is a partner organization to American Energy Alliance that employs the same staff and supports misinformation trashing clean energy. It supported and promoted the “Spanish” and “Danish” studies critical of clean energy jobs, both of which have been debunked by credible sources. IER also argues that efforts to curb global warming would accomplish little at too great a cost, promotes ACCF/NAM and Heritage Foundation studies that exaggerate the costs of climate policy, and discourages U.S. leadership on the international stage. Robert Bradley, a former Enron executive, is the CEO of IER and one of its founders. Thomas Pyle, a former Koch and oil-industry lobbyist, is the President of IER and the American Energy Alliance, the 501c4 counterpart to IER.One of IER's directors, Steven Hayward of theAmerican Enterprise Institute, was exposed in 2007 for attempting to pay IPCC scientists to criticize the IPCC's findings on climate science.IER has received funding from ExxonMobil.

Koch Industries the giant privately owned oil services company, is a major funder of climate change denial groups, funneling money to organizations opposed to climate change legislation through its foundations, the Claude R. Lambe Foundation; the Charles G. Koch Foundation; and the David H. Koch Foundation. According to a thorough investigative report released by Greenpeace, Koch foundations have doled out more than $48 million to group to promote its pro-oil agenda. These include the Mercatus Center (1997-2008: $9,874,500), Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) ($5,176,500 from 2005-2008), The Heritage Foundation (grants worth $3,358,000 between 1997 and 2008), and the Cato Institute (foundation grants of $5,278,400 between 1997 and 2008).

Mackinac Center For Public Policy is a large conservative think tank in Michigan that spreads climate change denials and smears prominent climate policy consultants. It has received funding from ExxonMobil.

TheManhattan Institute, founded by former CIA Chief William Casey, publishes climate science denials and has hosted Bjorn Lomborg, a favorite of climate deniers, in the last several years. The Manhattan Institute has received funding from ExxonMobil and from tobacco companies.

National Center For Policy Analysis (NCPA) disseminates climate science denials and exaggerates the economic costs of mitigation. NCPA is an anti-regulatory think tank that has attacked efforts to combat global warming. It was caught up in the web around convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who used the organization as part of a scheme to defraud Indian tribes. The Center also has received tobacco funding from Philip Morris, as well oil companies such as ExxonMobil.

TheNational Center For Public Policy Research is an anti-regulatory think tank that has attacked efforts to combat global warming. It was caught up in the web around convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who used the organization as part of a scheme to defraud Indian tribes. The Center also has received tobacco funding from Philip Morris, as well oil companies such as Exxon.

Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP), based in San Francisco, supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth…or Convenient Fiction,a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary. The film was produced by PRIPP Senior Fellow Steven Hayward and promoted by the Heritage Foundation. PRIPP has received funding from ExxonMobil and from the tobacco industry.

Property And Environment Research Center (PERC) is a private property rights think tank based in Bozeman, MT. It touts the economic benefits to American farmers as a reason not to act against climate change. PERC has been a part of the Cooler Heads Coalition and has taken funding from ExxonMobil.

National Black Chamber Of Commerce (NBCC) and its president Harry C. Alford have vigorously opposed H.R. 2454, participating in rallies and testifying before Congress. In a recent Senate hearing, Alford recently called Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer a racist for her comments about NAACP's support of the climate change legislation. NBCC has received funding from ExxonMobil and the tobacco industry.

Science And Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) was founded by Fred Singer, a leading climate science skeptic, and was originally associated with the Unification Church. Singer, who also worked with the tobacco industry, worked closely with a variety of climate skeptic groups, including the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. SEPP received funding from ExxonMobil.

The Reason Foundation, publisher of Reason Magazine, promotes the tenets of “Free Market Environmentalism (FME)” to argue that those who suffer from the effects of global warming have little legal or moral claim for compensation from GHG emitters. The Reason Foundation received funding from ExxonMobil and the tobacco industry.

The Tax Foundation opposed ACESA and issued a study on the costs of cap and trade legislation. Wayne Gable, a former Managing Director of Federal Affairs at Koch Industries, served as president of the Tax Foundation from 1989-1991. He is now on the board of the Institute For Energy Research. The Tax Foundation has received funding from ExxonMobil.

Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) fellows recently wrote on why reducing global warming pollution won't work and the devastating impact the American Clean Energy and Security Act would have on all aspects of American life. It has received funding from conservative foundations and Exxon.

The US Chamber Of Commerce (The Chamber) wouldn't ordinarily make a list of front groups since in general it is what it claims: a representative of business interests. However, in the case of the climate debate, The Chamber presents the positions of three of America's biggest coal producers as representative of the entire body, a misrepresentation that some members have complained about. In fact, nineteen of The Chamber's board members support federal policy on climate, while only four—including those three coal companies—oppose it. The Chamber's calls to hold a “Scopes Monkey” trial on global warming science evidence that the body has chosen to present the views of a few coal companies as representing US business in general. This analysis connects the dots between Union Pacific Railroad and its support for UP Director and Chamber President Tom Donohue, dirty coal and The Chamber's anti-climate legislation stance. The Chamber spent $144 million on lobbying in 2009, a 60% increase from 2008.

The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) publishes articles on the business threats posed by regulation of global warming pollution, such as vulnerability to tort claims. WLF is funded by conservative foundations and has received funding from the tobacco industry and has received money from Exxon.

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) publishes climate-denial creeds and promotes prominent climate-denier Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute which has received funding from ExxonMobil. Horner is author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism,” and “A Field Guide to Climate Criminals.” YAF President Ron Robinson is a director of Citizens United and of the American Conservative Union, which have been skeptical of climate change.

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History and Background of the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth

Overview: Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth

The Alliance for Energy and Econimic Growth (AEEG)was founded in 2001 and has been a major attack dog on climate and renewable energy policy for the US Chamber of Commerce.

While it is unclear who the founding members of the AEEG are the website registrationcurrently lists both the American Gas Association and the Edison Electric Institute as contacts. The staff email address for the US Chamber of Commerce is listed as the main contact.

The current management team of the AEEG (PDF) includes many of the most influential players in the US energy and transportation lobby, including:

James May, President and Chief Executive Officer, Air Transport Association of America

Dave McCurdy, President & Chief Executive Officer, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers

David Parker, President and CEO, American Gas Association

Andrew Sharkey, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Iron and Steel Institute

Red Cavaney, President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute

Edward Hamberger, President & CEO, Association of American Railroads

Thomas Kuhn, President, Edison Electric Institute

Donald Santa Jr., President & CEO, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America

Jay Timmons, Executive Vice President, National Association of Manufacturers

Evan Gaddis, President and CEO, National Electrical Manufacturers Association

Kraig Naasz, President and CEO, National Mining Association

Frank Bowman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute

R. Bruce Josten, Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth on Global Warming and Renewable Energy

Since its beginning the AEEG has a history of pushing hard for the expansion of domestic US energy production, while at the same time attacking efforts by the federal government to expand renewable energy use and greenhouse gas emission reductions strategies to fight global warming.

Here’s a timeline:

March 2003:the AEEG released a briefing note for policymakers promoting the use of “clean coal.” The document argues for the expansion in the use of coal and further investment by the federal government in the development and deployment of “clean coal” technologies.

You can also download a copy of this AEEG clean coal briefing note that we’ve archived.

March 2003: the AEEG lobbied to expand oil exploration and drilling into the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), (PDF) arguing that, “if America’s needs for oil and natural gas are to be met, there is no choice except to migrate into new areas for exploration and production.” You can also download a copy of this AEEG ANWR position note that we’ve archived.

April 2003: the AEEG also lobbied hard against a nationwide, mandatory Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (PDF).

You can also donwload a copy of this AEEG press release that we’ve archived.

May 2003: the AEEG ran an ad campaign and issued a position paper arguing that “Congress should not regulate Carbon Dioxide (C02) emissions” (PDF) in opposition to the 2003 Senate’s Energy Policy Act. The AEEG argued at the time that any “regime to cap C02 emissions” would “… require the U.S. to make deep and immediate cuts in our economy to meet an arbitrary target,” and the “Real GDP would drop at least $100 billion below the baseline, 1 million jobs would be lost, and disposable income would fall by more than $70 billion due to lower wages and fewer jobs.”

You can read the entire AEEG advertisement and position paper here (PDF).

May 2003: the AEEG released a position paper urging that “Congress should not mandate new greenhouse gas reporting.” The paper argued that “Mandating new federal greenhouse gas data collection beyond existing programs could impose billions of dollars in new and unnecessary costs and paperwork burdens on businesses without demonstrable justification or benefit and without clear purpose.” The AEEG instead urged Congress to impose voluntary reporting of greenhouse emissions for industry.

You can read the entireAEEG greenhouse gas position paper here (PDF)

June 2008: The AEEG lobbied Members of the US Senate to vote against the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act arguing that (PDF) the proposal could “could jeopardize energy supplies and harm the nation’s economic growth.”

The 2008 AEEG State-to-State Climate Change Tour

In 2008 the AEEG undertook a cross-coutry tour conducting a series of “state climate change dialogues… designed to raise awareness of important energy-related issues. The dialogues are intended to stimulate a national discussion on key climate change issues and provide.”

The initiatiave is a joint effort of the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.

So far, the AEEG has held sessions in Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Tenessee, Ohio, Montana, North Dakota and New Hampshire.

Speakers at the AEEG dialogues have included many well-known energy-industry lobbyists:

Rayola Dougher,Senior Economist, American Petroleum Institute

Kyle Isakower, Director of Policy Analysis, American Petroleum Institute

David Kreutzer, Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation

The AEEG’s Economic Impact Studies

The AEEG has used the dialogues speaking tour to roll-out State-level “Economic Impact Studies” that were prepared by the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Council for Capital Formation in response to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act that was introduced in the Spring, 2008. When you consider the sources, it’s not suprising that these “studies” found the impacts of greenhouse gas reduction strategies as proposed in the Lieberman-Warner bill would result in massive job loss, decreases in disposable income and higher energy costs.

These “Economic Impact Studies” were prepared and publicly released in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,West Virginia, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, Missouriand Arkansas.

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earlier this month, CIC’s Kert Davies was an invited speaker at a collaborative conference held at Brown University on the economic impacts of climate change and the opposition to policy advances. The day long event, America’s Climate Change Future: Housing Markets, Stranded Assets, and Entrenched Interests, gathered experts on a range of climate change topics ranging from increased flood risk and stranded assets in fossil fuels, to the climate change countermovement and misinformation campaigns.

Alongside keynote speaker Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Brown professor Timmons Roberts, Davies participated in a discussion on a recently published paper by Justin Farrell of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The paper’s focus on the “institutional and corporate structure of the climate change countermovement” helped shaped a discussion which outlined the existing body of research the paper built on.

The panelists examined the corporate genesis of the climate denial movement and the many methods of influence that have been utilized to stall effective climate change policy. Using documents and analysis found on Climate Files, Davies recounted how the largest oil majors, including Shell and Exxon, had extensive internal knowledge about climate change science and impacts decades before it became a topic of global concern. Rather than addressing the threat that their product posed to the world, the documents show that the fossil fuel industry engaged and funded a climate change countermovement to deny the urgency their own scientists knew to be true.

See video below of the full session with Davies, Senator Whitehouse and professor Roberts called, “Pushing Against Climate Denial and Defending Science.”

Brown University: New Report on Climate Change Countermovement

Brown University’s Climate Development Lab recently released a supplemental report titled Countermovement Coalitions: Climate Denialist Organizational Profiles tracking the affiliations and output of twelve organizations that “engaged in public misinformation campaigns about climate change” from 1989 to present day. Collaborating with CIC and drawing from Climate Files, ExxonSecrets, and other resources, the report highlights the coalitions’ “insular nature,” showing many to “share leadership teams, major donors, key members, and mission statements.” The twelve organizations highlighted by the Brown team are:

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Alliance For Energy And Economic Growth Letter To Congress: Energy Production From ANWR Is Vital

Washington - Energy production from a small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is vital to economic growth and energy security, and should be approved by Congress this month, according to a letter sent to all members of Congress by the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG).

The U.S. Senate's version of budget reconciliation legislation would allow energy producers to work in 2,000 acres of the 18-million acre wildlife refuge in Alaska. In its letter to Congress, AEEG said, "Our members believe that ANWR is one more critical part of securing America's energy future. While ANWR alone can't provide us with all the domestic energy we need, combined with the rapid development of other domestic oil and natural gas supplies, ANWR would make a tremendous difference, especially when coupled with greater energy efficiency, conservation and diversification. In addition, we must protect those Americans most at risk by supporting full funding of the Low- Income Home Energy Assistance Program."

The letter noted, "ANWR's Coastal Plain holds the nation's greatest potential for another Prudhoe Bay-size discovery. Conservative estimates from both the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Energy Information Administration peg technically recoverable crude oil reserves at approximately 10 billion barrels. That is enough to provide the United States with 1 million barrels of oil a day for 30 years."

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It costs $5,000 to join the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth but that isn't the only requirement for the a new political lobbying group,. Members must ...

MAY 30, 2001

It costs $5,000 to join the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth but that isn't the only requirement for the a new political lobbying group,

Members must pledge to support President Bush's national energy policy 100 percent. If any are caught lobbying against any parts of it, even if it should change, they won't be part of the group.

The guidelines haven't dissuaged 400 groups from joining the month-old corporate alliance.

Get the Story:

Trade Groups in Lock Step Behind Bush Energy Policy(The Washington Post 5/30)

Get the President's Energy Policy:

Reliable, Affordable, and Environmentally Sound Energy for America�s Future(The White House 5/17)

ERRATA: Corrections(The White House 5/17)

Relevant Links:

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