USCAP

see also climate action partnership

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_Action_Partnership

ebell raga sob story goliath sez massive industry backing for w-m, mention uscap

milloy mirror dirty doz

WANTED: 'CARBON CRIMINALS'; JunkScience.com Launches Poster Campaign Spotlighting USCAP CEOs Who Betray America by Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- JunkScience.com today launched a "WANTED" poster advertisement campaign alerting the public to be on the lookout for "carbon criminal" CEOs who are lobbying for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation now being considered by Congress.

"These conscienceless CEOs are armed with lobbyists and are dangerous to America," says Steve Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com and author of the Amazon.com Best-selling book "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them."

"American workers, taxpayers, consumers, families, and businesses are all gravely threatened by Waxman-Markey," says Milloy. "As explained in the WANTED posters, these CEOs have teamed up with America-hating green groups to lobby for legislation that would make energy dramatically more expensive and eviscerate the American dream and standard of living, while not accomplishing any positive for the environment," Milloy added.

The CEOs featured in the campaign are executives with companies belonging to the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP,http://www.us-cap.org), a gang of large corporations and Park Avenue environmental groups that have joined forces to lobby for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill.

JunkScience's first six carbon criminal "WANTED" posters feature:

Exelon CEO John Roe, the "carbon bandit," who stands to make billions of dollars at taxpayer expense from Waxman-Markey's free carbon allowances;
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, the "carbon schemer," who would rather profit from lobbying for Waxman-Markey than innovating products that consumers actually want;
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, the "carbon betrayer," who is lobbying for higher energy prices and against his own customers and shareholders;
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, the "carbon extortionist," who threatens to send American jobs overseas unless Congress pays him off with free carbon allowances;
Caterpillar CEO James Owens, who can only be considered as "carbon clueless" since he is lobbying against the coal industry, one of his biggest customers; and
John Deer & Co. Chairman Robert Lane, the "carbon crapshooter," who seems to be betting that he can wreck the economy and profit simultaneously.

The campaign kicked off with the poster of Exelon's Rowe featured on the Drudge Report (Chicago only). "More 'WANTED' posters for USCAP CEOs will follow, but America needed to know about these guys now," says Milloy.

"The Senate is about to take up the Waxman-Markey bill in hopes of enacting it before December when President Obama goes to Copenhagen to submit the U.S. to a United Nations-run international cap-and-tax agreement," Milloy notes.

"But for these CEOs, America would not be looking down the barrel of the Waxman-Markey gun," Milloy observed. "If you see one of them," Milloy warns, "approach with caution and shake your head in disgust."

The WANTED posters may be viewed at http://www.junksciencearchive.com/Wanted

crypto: Milloy

The Free Enterprise Action Fund is a mutual fund set up by Steven Milloy and Thomas J. Borelli.^[1] Milloy is a climate skeptic and has been a Fox News commentator and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. He is the founder of JunkScience.com. Borelli was formerly a tobacco scientist at Phillip Morrisand is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research. The Free Enterprise Action Fund aims to counter the trend by corporations to embrace corporate social responsibility and campaigns by activist groups seeking to shift corporate social and environmental policy.

On its website it states that the group aimed "to keep businesses focused on business rather than activist-defined CSR, the Fund aims to promote more generally our system of free enterprise. The Fund will direct advocacy and education efforts at corporate managements, institutional shareholders, the media and the public."

In the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change organized by the Heartland Institute, Milloy stated that the Fund aims to "be a problem for managements and shareholders", and that he and Borelli "primarily work through shareholder proposals" to "get the shareholders and CEOs to think about what they're doing". He also stated, "We have filed numerous shareholder proposals with companies in the US **:{Climate Action Partnership:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:**".^[2]

During 2005, the Fund underperformed the S&P 500 index by more than 50%, while rewarding its managers with above-average management fees of 2%.

The U.S. Climate Action Partnership (CAP) is a coalition of major corporations and other organizations including Alcoa Inc., General Electric Co., DuPont Co., Duke Energy Corp., Caterpillar, PG&E, the FPL Group, :{PNM:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: Resources, :{BP, Lehman Brothers:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: and :{PEW:(style="background-color:#ffff66ff"):}: Center on Global Climate Change. Reuters reported January 19, 2007. In May 2007, automobile maker General Motors joined the group, along with insurance company AIG, Alcan, Dow Chemical, Deere & Co., Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo and Shell. [1]

CAP was identified in the online publication ClimateBiz as "a program of Environmental Defense and numerous collaborating companies." CPA's stated URL www.pca-online.org is inactive. [2]

CAP has been criticised for greenwashing, as many of the corporations which are members of CAP are also working behind the scenes to undermine greenhouse-gas regulation. For example, USCAP members General Electric and Caterpillar have seats on the board of a group called the Center for Energy and Economic Development, which opposes greenhouse-gas regulations. USCAP member Duke Energy has joined notorious coal-lobbying group Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. Eight USCAP members sit on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is critical of attempts to reduce carbon; And the chamber vice president of environment says no board members have pressured the chamber to change its position. Says David Hawkins of green group and USCAP member NRDC, "We do expect them to exert pressure on other organizations." [3]

Contents [hide]

1 CAP as good PR
[2 U.S.\-Australia Climate Action Partnership](http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Climate_Action_Partnership#U.S.-Australia_Climate_Action_Partnership)
3 Contact details
4 Articles and resources

CAP as good PR

CAP is headed by Lance Morgan, the "Chief Communications Specialist at the Interpublic group," a communications conglomerate with lobbying, PR and marketing arms, according to O'Dwyer's PR Report (February 2007).

The trade publication also reported that "Powell Tate | Weber Shandwick ... is working with the newly formed United States Climate Action Partnership." CAP's goal, according to O'Dwyer's, is to have "input on any global warming legislation that is forged by the new Democratic Congress."

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http://www.us-cap.org/

USCAP Members Include:

ConocoPhillips, BP and Caterpillar quit USCAP - washingtonpost.com also deere

uscap logjam broke by immelt and facilit John Ehrman of meridian

jim owens of catepillar got grief from coal customers, as did Lehman bros, who pulled out

USCAP

CAP as good PR

USCAP Members Include:

ConocoPhillips, BP and Caterpillar quit *USCAP* - washingtonpost.com also deere

ConocoPhillips, BP and Caterpillar quit USCAP - washingtonpost.com also deere