Envirotruth

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Envirotruth is a project of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>, which in 2003, was underwritten to the tune of $30,000 from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Exxon_Mobil" title="Exxon Mobil">Exxon Mobil</a>. <a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf">[1]</a>

The project was launched in May 2002 with a media release stating that the site is "dedicated to injecting badly needed truth into the debate about our environment. For too long, some environmental groups have seized the world stage and the public's attention by distorting facts, bending the truth and even committing acts of terrorism against innocent citizens." <a href="http://www.envirotruth.org/about.cfm" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.envirotruth.org/about.cfm">[2]</a>

The site concentrates on four issues - biotech food, chlorine, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> and polyvinylchloride. Envirotruth - like a number of similar sites - claims that it "sheds light on the environmentalist movement, offering information about their tactics, terrorist acts and fundraising machines."

Groups in the sights of the project include the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace">Greenpeace</a>. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media" title="Media">media</a> release announcing the launch of the project cited <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore" title="Patrick Moore">Patrick Moore</a> criticising Greenpeace.

NCPPR does not disclose who is funding the project. However, ExxonMobil - which clashes with Greenpeace and the Sierra Club - have disclosed their funding for the site.

In 2002 ExxonMobil donated $30,000 to NCPPR for "educational activities" and a further $15,000 for general support. <a href="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/files/corporate/public_policy1.pdf" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www2.exxonmobil.com/files/corporate/public_policy1.pdf">[3]</a> In 2003 the company boosted its general operating support to $25,000 with another $30,000 for 'global climate change/EnviroTruth website".<a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf">[4]</a>

For all its hype the project appears to be floundering. News postings on topics such as environmental organisations, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism" title="Eco-terrorism">eco-terrorism</a>" and biotech food news were last updated in November 2003. The climate change news page has not been updated since December 2004.

<h2>Other SourceWatch resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change_sceptics" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change sceptics">climate change sceptics</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li>National Center for Public Policy Research, "<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=41658" class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=41658">New Web Site, Envirotruth.org, Brings Truth To The Environmentalist Movement</a>", Media Release, MarketWire, May 6, 2002.</li>

<li>Tim Lambert, <a href="http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Elambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/10#envirotruth" class="external text" rel="nofollow" title="http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/_{lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/10#envirotruth"}>Envirotruth or Envirodare</a>, Deltoid, October 14, 2004.</li>

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looks defunct? no gmo?

<a href="http://www.envirotruth.org/">http://www.envirotruth.org/</a>7/16:
<table width="562" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="530" style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20);"><img src="http://www.envirotruth.org/img/content/96_1248.gif" /> <img src="http://www.envirotruth.org/img/content/96_1174.gif" /> <a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA558_Energy_Bill.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: The Energy Bill That Isn't:  Rep. Nick Rahall's Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007, by Peyton Knight

<a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR_Greenpeace_Challenge_0507.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: Think Tank Challenges Greenpeace to Meet Transparency Standards, statement by David Ridenour

<a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA551_Climate_Change_Sea_Levels_0307.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report's Good News on Sea Levels by Dana Joel Gattuso

<a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA553_GlobalWarming_Intolerance.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming by Dana Joel Gattuso

<a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA556_Fuel_Economy_Markey_Platts.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: No  to New Fuel Economy Standards: Consumer Choice, Not Congress, Should Drive Decisionmaking, by Eric Peters
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</a><a target="blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/2007/06/senates-fuel-economy-standard.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>: The Senate's Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA553_GlobalWarming_Intolerance.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming by Dana Joel Gattuso<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA551_Climate_Change_Sea_Levels_0307.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report's Good News on Sea Levels by Dana Joel Gattuso <br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR_Greenpeace_Challenge_0507.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Think Tank Challenges Greenpeace to Meet Transparency Standards, statement by David Ridenour<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=527" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">The George C. Marshall Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: New Greenpeace Report Continues Campaign to Silence Debate on Climate Change <br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st279/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Policy Analysis</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle by S. Fred Singer & Dennis T. Avery<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1403.cfm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">The Heritage Foundation</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming by Ben Lieberman<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba530/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Policy Analysis</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Hot Air vs. the Cold Hard Truth about Hurricanes and Global Warming<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Science Puts the Chill to California's Global Warming Hot Air by Bonner Cohen<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cei.org/gencon/004,05539.cfm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," Marlo Lewis, Jr.<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=357" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">The George C. Marshall Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming <br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=158" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">Friends of Science</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change (video)<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA537EuropeKyoto206.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Kyoto's Anniversary: Little Reason to Celebrate by Dana Joel Gattuso<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://http//www.marshall.org/article.php?id=538" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">The George C. Marshall Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Why Cap & Trade is the Wrong Policy to Curb Greenhouse Gases for the United States<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://http//www.nationalcenter.org/NPA533HurricanesGlobalWarming.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Global Warming-Hurricane Link Just Hot Air by David Ridenour<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cei.org/gencon/004,04691.cfm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: What Every European Should Know About Global Warming, by Iain Murray<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA558_Energy_Bill.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Public Policy Research</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: The "Energy Bill" That Isn't: Rep. Nick Rahall's Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007 by Peyton Knight<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Petition Project<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st285/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">National Center for Policy Analysis</a><span style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);">: Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts by David R. Legates, Ph.D., C.C.M.<br style="color: rgb(25, 79, 20); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(208, 227, 206);" />

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heartland

Envirotruth, sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, is circulating an online petition urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to reject the Kyoto Protocol.

At the World Climate Change Conference held in Moscow from September 29 to October 3, 2003, climate scientists spoke out about the fundamental scientific shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government officials are listening carefully to those scientists and have decided not to ratify Kyoto until they have had a chance to examine the full range of the treaty’s implications: its economics, politics, and science.

Putin is now being pressured by the European Union and environmental activists to forgo a proper examination of the agreement and to ratify Kyoto quickly. According to Envirotruth, “Those of us who understand the very serious shortcomings in the scientific foundation of the treaty need to express our support for President Putin’s move to delay a ratification decision and encourage him to take whatever time he and his government need to properly examine the science. We need to also express our belief that ratifying the accord would be a significant mistake.”

Notably, even the Chicago Tribune, which usually parrots liberal advocacy groups on global warming, has realized the treaty is fundamentally flawed. According to a January 2 house editorial, “The world’s attempt to curb greenhouse gases--the Kyoto protocol--has been wisely spurned by the United States and may be buried by Russia’s refusal to sign. Early in December, Russian officials sent mixed messages about whether their country would sign the pact, which puts a heavy burden on industrial nations and asks little of developing nations. The U.S. was right to reject the Kyoto protocol ...”

Accordingly, Envirotruth is circulating the petition, reprinted on this page, to let Putin know not everyone in the West agrees with the EU and global warming alarmists.

The petition can be viewed and signed online at<a href="http://www.envirotruth.org/president_putin/#bottom" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">http://www.envirotruth.org/president_putin/#bottom</a>.

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James M. Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News. <i style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">His email address is<a href="mailto:taylor@heartland.org" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">taylor@heartland.org</a>.

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not sure why this is in ncppr except envirotruth ~ GP?

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Eco-terrorism</h1>

From SourceWatch

Eco-terrorism is a term believed to have been coined by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold" title="Ron Arnold">Ron Arnold</a>, the Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" title="Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the word 'terrorism' has become a potent political weapon. Since the 1980s, Arnold has blurred the boundaries between nonviolent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Civil_disobedience" title="Civil disobedience">civil disobedience</a> and more contentious tactics such as vandalism and sabotage - which have on the whole been rejected by mainstream environmentalists - and elevated property damage to equal terrorism as a societal threat. More recently, he has been joined by other prominent anti-environmentalists including self-styled "eco-terrorism expert" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barry_Clausen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barry Clausen (page does not exist)">Barry Clausen</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nick_Nichols" title="Nick Nichols">Nick Nichols</a>, the now retired chair of PR firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall" class="mw-redirect" title="Nichols-Dezenhall">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>. (After Nichols retirement the company was renamed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dezenhall_Resources" title="Dezenhall Resources">Dezenhall Resources</a>).

The deliberate conflation of civil disobedience with terrorism by Arnold, Clausen and Nichols has paved the way for the introduction of draconian legislation, such as the so-called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ecoterrorism_Prevention_Act_of_2004" title="Ecoterrorism Prevention Act of 2004">Ecoterrorism Prevention Act of 2004</a> <a href="http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr4454.html" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr4454.html">[1]</a>, to ban or increase penalties for civil disobedience protests.

<h2>Contents</h2></div>

<ul>

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

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#Linking_environmentalism_with_terrorism">2 Linking environmentalism with terrorism</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#Legislation">3 Legislation</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#Other_SourceWatch_Resources">4 Other SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#References">5 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#External_links">6 External links</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>Origins</h2>

Arnold, considered by many as the 'father' of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise_Use_Movement" title="Wise Use Movement">Wise Use</a> movement, first used the term in a 1983 article in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation">Reason Magazine</a>. However, the tactic of linking environmental protest to violence in the public's mind dates back to 1977, when supporters of the Marxist turned right-wing extremist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lyndon_LaRouche" title="Lyndon LaRouche">Lyndon LaRouche</a> told police that acts of violence were planned during protests against the construction of a nuclear reactor at Seabrook, New Hampshire. The FBI subsequently concluded that the allegations had been fabricated. <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>,<a href="http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/greenspy.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/greenspy.html" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>

During the 1980s, the equation of environmentalism with violence was assisted by what researcher Bron Taylor has described as the "martial rhetoric" of some radical environmentalists, in particular the willingness of early <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earth_First%21" title="Earth First!">Earth First!</a> activists to advocate sabotage as a legitimate tactic. However, in a 1998 paper published in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, Taylor concluded that "[t]here is, nevertheless, even after 18 years of radical environmental action, little evidence that radical environmentalists intend to maim and kill their adversaries or to foster 'terror' among the general populace." <a href="http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/TPV%20article.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/TPV%20article.htm" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

Among the eleven principles for a strategic "monkeywrenching" (or sabotage) campaign outlined by Earth First! founder Dave Foreman in his 1985 book Ecodefense, nonviolence was primary:

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<dd>Monkeywrenching is nonviolent resistance to the destruction of natural diversity and wilderness. It is never directed against human beings or other forms of life. It is aimed at inanimate machines and tools that are destroying life. Care is always taken to minimize any possible threat to people, including the monkeywrenchers themselves.</dd>

</dl>

In advocating for the legitimacy of of tree spiking, Foreman claimed - naively, some might argue - that injury to workers was unlikely because of the safety measures in place to protect workers in large timber mills. Because of the "remote" risk of injury to chainsaw operators associated with spiking the base of trees, Foreman recommended against using this particular form of spiking.

Nonetheless, tree spiking was seized upon by the logging industry as evidence of a violent agenda behind radical environmentalism. In 1987, when an employee of logging company Louisiana-Pacific was seriously injured by a bandsaw blade which shattered when it struck a 60 penny nail, company president Harry Merlo dubbed the incident "terrorism in the name of environmental goals". While Earth First! was condemned by state officials and the media, it later emerged that the chief suspect, against whom no charges were laid, was a 50 year old "survivalist" with no connection to Earth First! <a href="http://www.iww.org/unions/iu120/local-1/EF/JBari11.shtml" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.iww.org/unions/iu120/local-1/EF/JBari11.shtml" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>

In 1990, Earth First! activist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Judi_Bari" title="Judi Bari">Judi Bari</a>, prompted by concerns that the radical environmentalist movement's support for "tree spiking" was allowing the timber industry to drive a wedge between timber workers and environmentalists, led Earth First! in Northern California and Southern Oregon to renounce the controversial tactic. <a href="http://www.things.org/%7Ejym/ef/tree-spiking-memo.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.things.org/_{jym/ef/tree-spiking-memo.html}" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>

<h2>Linking environmentalism with terrorism</h2>

Since 1990, there have been numerous attempts by industry front groups, PR firms and conservative think-tanks has to associate environmental activism with terrorism. For instance:

<ul>

<li>In 1991 a leaked memo from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum Public Relations</a>, hired by the Clorox Corporation to develop a crisis management plan, detailed proposed responses to a number of hypothetical scenarios, including a Greenpeace direct action at Clorox factory. Among the recommended tactics was the launch of a "Stop Environmental Terrorism" public relations campaign. <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> <a href="http://www.SourceWatch.org/upload/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.SourceWatch.org/upload/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download pdf extract from Ketchum's plan for Clorox</a></li>

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<li>In 1994, Barry Clausen and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rogelio_Maduro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rogelio Maduro (page does not exist)">Rogelio Maduro</a>, an associate editor of LaRouche's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=21st_Centry_Science_and_Technology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="21st Centry Science and Technology (page does not exist)">21st Centry Science and Technology</a> magazine, published a photocopied newsletter called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ecoterrorism_Watch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ecoterrorism Watch (page does not exist)">Ecoterrorism Watch</a>, which featured a review of Clausen's book Walking on the Edge: How I Infiltrated Earth First.<a href="http://www.clearproject.org/reports_BCandET.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.clearproject.org/reports_BCandET.html" rel="nofollow">[9]</a>. Clausen, who spent a year "undercover" with Earth First!, wrote the book after he was apparantly fired by his timber industry sponsors for failing to produce any evidence of "terrorism" beyond demonstrations and minor vandalism. <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9845/hsiao2.php" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9845/hsiao2.php" rel="nofollow">[10]</a>, <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/news4/clausen.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.infoshop.org/news4/clausen.html" rel="nofollow">[11]</a></li>

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<ul>

<li>In June 1998, Arnold and Clausen were among witnesses to appear before the U.S. Congress' House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime during its Hearing on acts of ecoterrorism committed by radical environmental organizations.<a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju59927.000/hju59927_0F.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju59927.000/hju59927_0F.htm" rel="nofollow">[12]</a>. The primary advocate for the 1998 "eco-terror hearings" was Californian Congressman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Riggs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank Riggs (page does not exist)">Frank Riggs</a>, in whose office, in October 1997, Earth First! activists protesting against logging company Pacific Lumber had pepper spray applied to their eyes while immobilised by "lock on" boxes. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9710/31/pepper.spray.update/" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9710/31/pepper.spray.update/" rel="nofollow">[13]</a></li>

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<li>In 2002, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> and Nichols-Dezenhall co-sponsored a conference titled "Stopping Eco-Extremism: A Conference On Legislative, Legal And Communications Strategies To Protect Free Enterprise". The speakers included Nichols and former Louisiana Pacific media relations official <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kelly_Stoner" title="Kelly Stoner">Kelly Stoner</a>, who was billed as the executive director of an organisation called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stop_Eco_Violence" title="Stop Eco Violence">Stop Eco-Violence</a>. The domain name used by the Stop Eco-Violence <a href="http://www.stopecoviolence.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.stopecoviolence.com/" rel="nofollow">website</a> was registered by Nichols-Dezenhall employee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ryan_Knoll" title="Ryan Knoll">Ryan Knoll</a> in November 2001.<a href="http://tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5270" class="external autonumber" title="http://tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5270" rel="nofollow">[14]</a>,<a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5246" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5246" rel="nofollow">[15]</a></li>

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<ul>

<li>In 2003, an article written by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Levin" title="Marc Levin">Marc Levin</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Freedom_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Freedom Center (page does not exist)">American Freedom Center</a>, entitled "Terrorism in the Name of the Earth: Flush out eco-terrorism money", appeared in the National Law Journal, Front Page Magazine, The American Enterprise, the Austin Review and the San Francisco Chronicle. In the article, Levin claimed that "acts of eco-terrorism" attributed to the Earth Liberation Front were funded by money "illegally laundered through tax-exempt organizations" and cited the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Interest_Watch" title="Public Interest Watch">Public Interest Watch</a> report Green-Peace, Dirty Money: Tax Violations in the World of Non-Profits before going on to accuse Greenpeace of committing "numerous acts of eco-terrorism".<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10304" class="external autonumber" title="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10304" rel="nofollow">[16]</a></li>

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<h2>Legislation</h2>

The term 'eco-terrorism' would be defined into law by draft legislation as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Animal_and_Ecological_Terrorism_Act&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act (page does not exist)">The_Animal_and_Ecological_Terrorism_Act</a> which proposes provisions to target those deemed to have encouraged, assisted or financed offences under its extraordinarily broad definition of 'terrorism'.

In an article for Tom Paine, Karen Charman noted that the draft legislation would effectively ban environmental and animal rights advocacy. The Texas bill, she wrote, defines an "animal rights or terrorist organization" as "two or more persons organized for the purpose of supporting any politically motivated activity intended to obstruct or deter any person from participating in an activity involving animals or... natural resources." <a href="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7748" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7748" rel="nofollow">[17]</a>

"'Political motivation' means an intent to influence a government entity or the public to take a specific political action," the bill states.

By such definitions, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States">Green Party of the United States</a> would certainly qualify as guilty of eco-terrorism for its various demonstrations and support of political actions to influence government or the public. And so would the over one hundred other such parties in all democracies on the Earth. However, such parties all include change through the legislative process itself and support change through peaceful means. Such lobbying or influencing would seem to be illegal under the Act.

There have been individuals who have been prosecuted and convicted in the U.S. for various forms of vandalism undertaken with an environmental motivation, albeit without to date causing injury to individuals. There have also been groups or factions within them - such as Earth First! - that have rejected traditional non-violence as precluding damage to property and embraced vandalism as a tactic. Many groups - both conservative and from within the environmental movement - have rejected the distinction and disowned such actions.

While conservative groups routinely denounce both peaceful protests and vandalism as the equivalent of terrorism, they remain silent about violent attacks against environmentalists and animal rights activists.

Conservative groups have succeeded in mobilising conservative elements within law enforcement agencies to monitor and investigate 'eco-terrorism'. However, the same agencies have no equivalent monitoring or investigation of patterns of violence against environmentalists.

<h2>Other SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act" title="Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act">Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Animal_Liberation_Front" title="Animal Liberation Front">Animal Liberation Front</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Criminalising_civil_disobedience" title="Criminalising civil disobedience">Criminalising civil disobedience</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earth_Liberation_Front" title="Earth Liberation Front">Earth Liberation Front</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism_hoaxes" title="Eco-terrorism hoaxes">Eco-terrorism hoaxes</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Police_counter-terrorism_training_exercises&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police counter-terrorism training exercises (page does not exist)">Police counter-terrorism training exercises</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stop_Eco_Violence" title="Stop Eco Violence">Stop Eco-Violence</a>.</li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eco-terrorism#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Ron Arnold, <a href="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" class="external text" title="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" rel="nofollow">"The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism"</a>, The Indypendent, September 17, 2007. This was a response by Arnold to an article on the word.</li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Clorox.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Clorox.pdf" rel="nofollow">Copy of Ketchum's Leaked Draft Clorox Crisis Management Plan</a> (4.6MB Pdf file)</li>

<li>Greenpeace USA, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a9/CloroxGP.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a9/CloroxGP.pdf" rel="nofollow">Clorox Company's Public Relations "Crisis Management Plan" Leaked to Greenpeace</a>", Media Release, May 10, 1991. (Pdf file)</li>

<li>Tom Regan, "<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0519/dailyUpdate.html" class="external text" title="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0519/dailyUpdate.html" rel="nofollow">ACLU accuses FBI of 'spying' on activists: Civil liberties group says FBI used 'terrorism' as a pretext for improper surveillance and interviews</a>", Christian Science Monitor, May 19, 2005.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27fri2.html?pagewanted=print" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27fri2.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">Homeland Eyes, Right and Left</a>", Editorial, New York Times, May 27, 2005. (Sub req'd) (A copy of the article is posted <a href="http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/randirhodes/messageboards/index.php?showtopic=52312" class="external text" title="http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/randirhodes/messageboards/index.php?showtopic=52312" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</li>

<li>Michael J. Kavanagh, "<a href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/07/08/kavanagh/index.html" class="external text" title="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/07/08/kavanagh/index.html" rel="nofollow">The Terror Of Our Ways: Conflating environmentalists and terrorists is all the rage</a>", Grist, July 8, 2005.</li>

<li>Jeffrey St. Clair, "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair10032005.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair10032005.html" rel="nofollow">The Great Green Scare</a>", Counterpunch, October 3, 2005.</li>

<li>Bryan Denson and Mark Larabee, "<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/113410232070390.xml&coll=7" class="external text" title="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/113410232070390.xml&coll=7" rel="nofollow">U.S. accuses 7 of eco-sabotage: Agents link suspects in Oregon and elsewhere to a three-year string of crimes</a>," The Oregonian, December 9, 2005. "The government Thursday announced the most extensive bust of eco-saboteurs in U.S. history, charging seven people with a series of arsons and vandalism that plagued the Pacific Northwest for nearly three years.. ... Federal authorities employed a provision of the USA <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patriot_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriot Act">Patriot Act</a> to close in on the alleged saboteurs. The law allowed them to obtain search warrants from U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Coffin in Eugene and search in other states for evidence."</li>

<li>Michael Janofsky, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/politics/21indict.html?pagewanted=all" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/politics/21indict.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">11 Indicted in Cases of Environmental Sabotage</a>", New York Times, January 21, 2006.</li>

<li>Judith Lewis, "<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=20&Itemid=2" class="external text" title="http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=20&Itemid=2" rel="nofollow">Earth to ELF: Come In, Please: Does the radical environmental group really exist?</a>", LA Weekly, December 22, 2005.</li>

<li>Michael Donnelly, "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly06142007.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly06142007.html" rel="nofollow">Charred SUVs and the End of Citizen Eco-Activism: America's Newest Political Prisoners</a>", Counterpunch, June 14, 2007.</li>

<li>Indypendent Staff, "<a href="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" class="external text" title="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/09/15/the-birth-of-a-buzz-word-eco-terrorism/" rel="nofollow">The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism</a>", The Indypendent, September 17, 2007.</li>

<li>Stephen Lendman, "<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8825" class="external text" title="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8825" rel="nofollow">Green Scare State Terrorism</a>", Global Research, April 28, 2008.</li>

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lmao, THE WAR ON ECOTERROR

got more on the chairperson of the company responsible

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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style=" border: 1px inset;">Amy Moritz Ridenour

Amy Ridenour is President and Chairman of The National Center for Public Policy Research. As the founding chief executive officer, she has since 1982 promoted the conservative and free market perspective on U.S. domestic, foreign and defense policy issues. She frequently speaks on public policy issues and political organizing techniques and has done so across the U.S., in Central America and in Europe.

Since 1997, her op/eds have been syndicated by Knight-Ridder. Her articles have been published hundreds of times, including by by USA Today, the Sacramento Bee, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Los Angeles Daily News and many others. She has also served as a guest-host on the nationally-syndicated Michael Reagan Talk Show and is a popular guest on radio and television talk shows, appearing on such programs as Politically Incorrect and on the Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC.

Amy Ridenour also is a member of the board of directors of Black America's PAC, a political action committee that works to help elect more African-Americans to Congress and other elected offices, and she served as the chairman of several of the conservative movement's strategy meetings, including the Stanton meeting (foreign affairs and defense issues) and the Family Forum meeting (social policy issues).

Amy Ridenour also served from 1993-1994 as co-host of Scoop, a public affairs show seen weekly on the public affairs television network National Empowerment Television (subsequently known as America's Voice). Amy Ridenour has served as Vice-Chairman of the International Youth Year Commission of the U.S. (1985); as Deputy Director of the College Republican National Committee; as Regional Coordinator for the Reagan/Bush 1980 campaign; as Chairman of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans and on Maryland Republican State Central Committee. Ridenour received the American Hero Award from the National Defense Council Foundation in 1988 and the William Paca Award from the Maryland Republican State Central Committee in 1979. A native of Pittsburgh where she was born in 1959, she studied Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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further to all that heres a bit about amy ridenour

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NCPPR's Terror Campaign

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The latest bulletin from the Clearinghouse for Educational Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) features an elegant crique of the National Committee for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a right-wing front group that campaigns for tobacco and Republicans and against the environment. While attacking the environmental movement as an "ecoterrorist fundraising machine," NCPPR director Amy Ridenour herself rakes in a fat salary raised through deceptive fundraising appeals, including one "that targeted the elderly, leading them to believe their social security benefits would be cut off if they did not send money. ... NCPPR mailed 160 appeal letters over four months to an 86 year old woman who stayed awake nights worrying about whether she would continue to receive social security if she didn't send money. *At the time, Amy Ridenour defended the direct mailing blitz, saying, 'It's just that you're competing with a lot of other organizations. People seem to respond better to emotion than they do with letters that have lots and lots of facts.'"</td></tr></tbody></table>

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