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=see Cooler heads coalition=tied into atlas network okonski, morris BERMAN?
=from entine ggl doc:
...After Fischer founded Institute for Economic Affairs, he went to US and then commonwealth (Acton was part of Atlas, which spawned CTT all over the world). These inhabited different ideological as well as geographical niches in the “ecosystem.” For example, Acton (est 1990) combined free market faith with Christian faith
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Blundell
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">--<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Julian Morris<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> was the handsome, charming and well spoken son of a chemical engineer from Epping. He first became interested in free market economics when he was a 22-year-old student completing an MA at the highly regarded Edinburgh University in 1991.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">He read a startling and challenging article in the <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Financial Times<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> which was based on a monograph by professor Sir Douglas Hague published by the IEA which called for the privatisation of universities.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Morris also read free-marketeer <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2014/12/16/friedrich-von-hayek-s-free-market-legacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Friedrich von Hayek</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">'s <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The Use of Knowledge in Society And<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> attended events at the IEA, where he met Blundell and Linda Whetstone, the daughter of IEA founder, Antony Fisher.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Naive Environmentalist<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">“I was myself a naive young environmentalist,” Morris wrote some years later. “I had just written a paper on how to establish a global system for restricting emissions of carbon dioxide and was about to embark on a masters course in environment and resource economics run by Professor David Pearce at University College London.”<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">At the time, there was much buzz about a conference due to take place in Rio de Janeiro that was being hailed as the 'Earth Summit' and global warming was a hot item on the agenda.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">It was during his masters at UCL that Morris became close friends with Bate and became increasingly immersed in free market ideas and the think tank world.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">“I am not dogmatic in my approach”, Morris told me. “I care deeply about the environment.”  <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Blundell would later arrange for Morris to fly out to the United States through the Charles G Koch Foundation, taking up a short internship at the Atlas Foundation - both of which Blundell worked for.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">“Charles and David Koch are two of the finest, most upstanding businessmen and philanthropists in the world,” Morris told me during an email interview.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">While in the US, Morris completed his research for his IEA monograph <a href="http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/upldbook123pdf.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The Political Economy of Land Degradation</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> in 1995. On his return, he set up shop as a consultant economist and worked for the European Environment Agency, Save the Rhino International and the World Wildlife Fund.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">But over the coming years Morris would make considerably more money running think tanks that challenged the science of climate change and attacked policies that would reduce carbon emissions.

<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">=
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Julian Morris and Roger Bate were<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/01/07/how-two-students-took-climate-denial-bate" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> long-term friends </a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">and started a company together<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">,<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Bate, however, retained very close ties with climate denier <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2014/12/13/how-free-market-baptist-fred-smith-sold-out-to-the-big-oil-bootleggers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Fred Smith</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> (<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">CEI<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">), fell out (in part over Okonski, on payroll?), Bate defected to US….<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The accounts for the IPN show that,<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> in 2005, the IPN was paying Okonski £28,000 and that she claimed £4,448 in expenses. <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Another member of the IPN staff said: “This is rumour… but Bate had disagreements with Julian over Kendra.”<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Then, in 2003, the dispute appears to have reached an impasse as Bate resigned as a director of the IPN and moved to the United States. The following year, he was earning<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">$100,000 a year for a 30-hour week as chairman of Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM), which was receiving <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">$30,000 from ExxonMobil for “climate change outreach”.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">He was also hired as a fellow by the American Enterprise Institute, which enjoyed funding from Koch, Exxon and major tobacco companies, although he drifted away from the subject of climate change.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">---<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Morris:<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">naive enviro working on CO2, but bate helped him see where money was, plus meet daughter of Fischer?<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Free Market Fire<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The two met when Okonski was working as a research assistant for climate denier <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/2014/12/13/how-free-market-baptist-fred-smith-sold-out-to-the-big-oil-bootleggers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Fred Smith</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> (CEI) – funded by Philip Morris, Dow Chemicals and ExxonMobil – after graduating from a free market college.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Okonski had gained a reputation, even among the free market zealots, as being “fiery” and determined.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Morris had been speaking at a conference called the Precautionary Principle held by American non-profit organisation <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Consumer Alert <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">three years earlier, when Okonski <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">was swept off her feet by his chiselled good looks and devotion to the free markets.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Smith recalls: “He was delivering a speech; he looked down at Kendra, with her big eyes, and thought: ‘scary’. It was a public policy marriage.”<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Morris said: “Kendra is a beautiful, engaged and inspiring woman; she is the love of my life. We share a deep desire to improve the lot of humanity through the empowering institutions of a free society: property rights, markets and the rule of law. So far as I am aware, we came to those ideas independently, but I cannot speak for Kendra.”
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">CEI's President and Founder is <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Fred Smith.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> Its staff include Gregory Conko who is CEI's Director of Food Safety Policy<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. Via Conko CEI has played a key role in<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> CS Prakash's <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">AgBioWorld campaign .
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The launch-pad for Prakash's campaign was a <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">petition<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> supporting the use of GM agriculture in developing countries<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. Prakash presented this as a Third World scientists' rallying point for fellow academics<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. However, CEI in its annual report (2000) says that it played 'a key role in the creation' of the petition as part of a wider campaign against 'death by regulation' - the same CEI campaign that has been directed against government efforts to discourage smoking because, according to the CEI, 'there are things more valuable than health'. More recently, Greg Conko has been acknowledged in AgBioWorld press releases as the co-founder of AgBioWorld .<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Among CEI's long list of known sponsors are Philip Morris, Pfizer and Dow Chemicals<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. In 2000 CEI had a turnover of $3M+ a year with another million in assets.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">CEI's 'Adjunct Scholars' include Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> and Fran Smith of Consumer Alert. Fran Smith is also on CEI's Board of Directors. She is also the wife of CEI's President and Founder. Another CEI 'Adjunct' is<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> Roger Bate of the International Policy Network <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">- a group whose Washington address is the same as that of the CEI.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Kendra Okonski <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">of IPN also used to work for CEI.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> When ABC-TV's 20/20 program presenter John Stossel came under fire in August 2000 for citing nonexistent scientific studies in a 20/20 report attacking organic foods, Okonski organised a <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Save John <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Stosse<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">l<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> website for the CEI to help Stossel keep his job.
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">--<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Okonski<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> (_CSR theme emerging?)  IPN Exxon funded climate denial with Morris; <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">dad Montana lumber baron, grew up in Chile (praises increase in water almost exactly coincide with Pinochet era, ~ Cochabamba?) econ at Hillsdale College, <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">married Morris, CEI site defending Stossel<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Picking up on Gang of 5 80’s reagan we’re the true revolutionaries, she staged counter-protests, often masquerading as helping poor Third World countries (she’ll intersect with CORE Innis at----) e.g., <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sustainable_Development_Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Sustainable Development Network</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">JoBurg Earth Summit: 
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">For all that, there were some real farmers present as well. Mackinnon says he spotted some wearing anti-environmentalist t-shirts, with slogans like "Stop Global Whining." This aroused his curiosity, since small-scale African farmers are not normally to be found among those jeering the "bogus science" of climate change.  Yet here they were, with slogans on placards and T-shirts: "Save the Planet from Sustainable Development", "Say No To Eco-Imperialism", "Greens: Stop Hurting the Poor" and "Biotechnology for Africa". On approaching the protesters, however, Mackinnon discovered that all of the props had been made available to the marchers by the organizers. When he tried to converse with some of the farmers about their pro-GM T-shirts, "They smiled shyly; none of them could speak or read English." <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">…<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">And here lies the real key to the President of BIO's account of the march, and specifically to the<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> attack on Vandana Shiva<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. Monsanto and BIO want to project an image of GM crop acceptance with a Southern face. That's why Monsanto's Internet homepage used to be adorned with the faces of smiling Asian children. So when an Indian critic of the biotech industry gets featured,<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> as Shiva was recently, on the cover of Time magazine as an environmental hero, the brand is under attack, and has to be protected.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">The counterattack takes place via a contrarian lens, one that projects the attackers' vices onto their target. Thus the problem becomes not Monsanto using questionable tactics to push its products onto a wary South, but malevolent agents of the rich world obstructing Monsanto's acceptance in a welcoming Third World. <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">For this reason the press release for the <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">"Bullshit Award" [varnished cowshit] accuses Shiva, amongst other things, of being "a mouthpiece of western eco-imperialism"<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. The media contact for this symbolic rejection of neocolonialism? The American, Kendra Okonski. The mouthpiece denouncing an Indian environmentalist as an agent of the West is a Western mouthpiece. 
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Conko often co-author with Miller:<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Conko's many publications include papers promoting GM foods and free trade and attacking the precautionary principle, co-authored with CS Prakash, Henry I. Miller, Fred Smith and <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Kendra Okonski.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Among these is "Cloudy horizons in a brave new world", originally published on the European Science and Economic Forum website. In it Conko suggests that concerns about the safety of GM food are merely a cover for "trade protectionism" and "anti-science fearmongering".[4]<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">What <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Miller<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> is most notorious for are his unusual public positions.<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">In 2003, Miller penned an op-ed for the New York Times defending DDT<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> and arguing for its resurrection. This prompted a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) response pointing out the estimated "increase in infant deaths that might result from DDT spraying."<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">---
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">a director of <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Consumer Alert BERMAN<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">a director of <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">American Council on Science and Health<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">an Adjunct Scholar at the <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute; and a<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">scientific advisor to the George C. Marshall Institute

<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">---<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Another individual on the ACSH board of trustees is pro-GMO advocate <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Henry <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Miller, <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">who also founded the FDA Office of Biotechnology<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">.7 His deceptive PR tactics during the California GMO labeling campaign have been discussed in previous articles.
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Miller also supported the now defunct Advancement of Sound Science Coalition,8 which was formed to support the tobacco industry by discrediting claims that smoke is harmful. The group also advanced other industry-friendly positions on a wide range of topics, including global warming, phthalates, and pesticides.
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">--<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Miller helped found the tobacco industry front group<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">“The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which is now defunct. 
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Co-author in Forbes with Chassy
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">[<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Miller is a member of the UN's Codex Alimentarius committee on GM foods. He is also a key figure in the network of right-wing pro-biotech lobby groups in the U.S. He is an<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> 'adjunct scholar' at the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">, a director of the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">American Council on Science and Health</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> (ACSH) and a director of <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Consumer_Alert" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Consumer Alert</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">. He was also part of the pro-GM/anti-organic 'No More Scares' group with <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Michael_Fumento" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Michael Fumento</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">, <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Steven_Milloy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Steven Milloy</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> and ACSH's <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Elizabeth_Whelan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Elizabeth Whelan</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">.]
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">OZ hit:  <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> Signatories to the letter Miller drafted to Columbia include one Gilbert Ross, acting president and director of ASCH, an organization that <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">defends the fracking industry<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> and also has the mission of keeping GMO labels off of food in the state of California. <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Dr. Ross is a convicted criminal<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> and Medicaid fraud artist who was “convicted of racketeering, mail fraud and conspiracy,” and was “sentenced to 47 months in jail, $40,000 in forfeiture, and restitution of $612,855” in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid system, reports the <a href="http://usrtk.org/hall-of-shame/why-you-cant-trust-the-american-council-on-science-and-health/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">U.S. Right to Know campaign</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> in a page describing ACSH practices<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> He has also co-authored a number of articles with<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Greg_Conko" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Greg Conko</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> of the <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""> <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">which suggest that concerns about the safety of GM food are really due to "trade protectionism" and "anti-science fearmongering" and that GMOs require, if anything, less regulation, not more.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Henry_I.Miller#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">[8]</a>
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">alternet<div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style="">end entine ggl doc extract</div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" style=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PPkRCl98kqsVGTPK2p7mOMdv68eAFjtIIrWi-vpgCFM/edit" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PPkRCl98kqsVGTPK2p7mOMdv68eAFjtIIrWi-vpgCFM/edit</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>
Consumer Alert was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit" title="Non-profit" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">non-profit</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_consumer_organizations" title="List of consumer organizations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">organization</a> which advocated on business and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer" title="Consumer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">consumer</a> issues. It was primarily funded by corporations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Alert#cite_note-victoria-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> It was founded in 1977<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Alert#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> by Barbara A. Keating-Edh and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Sununu" title="John Henry Sununu" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Henry Sununu</a>, [MOTHER FORKER] who would later go on to become <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Governor</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New Hampshire</a> (1983–89) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff" title="White House Chief of Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">White House Chief of Staff</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush_administration" title="George H. W. Bush administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George H. W. Bush administration</a>.The philosophy of Consumer Alert advocated free-market solutions to consumer dissatisfaction and promoted the belief that markets are best regulated by informed consumers. In the organization's opinion effective consumer advocacy must steadfastly oppose any actions by government or industry that limits competition within markets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Alert#cite_note-beaver-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>
<a href="http://www.consumeralert.org/index.htm">Consumer Alert</a>

This astroturf group calls global warming science "scare stories" and funds the Web site <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/index.htm">Globalwarming.org</a>, with a bi-weekly update called "May Cooler Heads Prevail." Consumer Alert's networking project, the <a href="http://www.consumeralert.org/NCC/index.htm">National Consumer Coalition</a>, formed the so-called Cooler Heads Coalition in May, "to dispel the myths of global warming." Cooler Heads is run by a vice president from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a longtime sponsor of the Wise Use movement. Funded by: American Cyanamid, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Chevron, Monsanto, Philip Morris, and other big corporations.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Alert">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Alert</a>

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert</a>

Consumer Alert may have ceased operations. Its former website, www.consumeralert.org, is no longer online. Its website was operational until at least February 2006 (according to the archives at: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://tinyurl.com/2q6soe">http://tinyurl.com/2q6soe</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://tinyurl.com/3daeo4">http://tinyurl.com/3daeo4</a>, which the owners of the CA domain have blocked).

Consumer Alert, founded in 1977, is a national, non-profit organization concerned with "excessive growth of government regulation at the national and state levels." According to its website, Consumer Alert's mission is to "enhance understanding and appreciation of the consumer benefits of a market economy so that individuals and policymakers rely more on private rather than government approaches to consumer concerns."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.consumeralert.org/info/mission.htm">[1]</a>

Consumer Alert, "formerly headed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Sununu" title="John Sununu" class="mw-redirect">John Sununu</a> and funded by such companies as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chevron" title="Chevron">Chevron</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eli_Lilly" title="Eli Lilly">Eli Lilly</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Phillip_Morris" title="Phillip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Phillip Morris</a>, has fought mandatory air bags on the grounds that their expense is a burden to the consumers they claim to represent" (Washington Babylon, 13).

Its website includes articles by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution" class="mw-redirect">Hoover Institution</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Henry_Miller" title="Henry Miller" class="mw-redirect">Henry Miller</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute">Hudson Institute</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Fumento" title="Michael Fumento">Michael Fumento</a> and Consumer Alert executive director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frances_B._Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frances B. Smith (page does not exist)">Frances B. Smith</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elizabeth_Whelan" title="Elizabeth Whelan">Elizabeth Whelan</a> executive director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health" title="American Council on Science and Health">American Council on Science and Health</a> is a member of Consumer Alert's advisory council.

Consumer Alert operates the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Consumer_Coalition" title="National Consumer Coalition">National Consumer Coalition</a>, a collection of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups" title="Front groups">front groups</a> and industry friendly organizations that seek to advance "solutions to real consumer problems and seeks the most cost-effective manner in which to achieve desired results." In April 2004, NCC revived the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cooler_Heads_Coalition" title="Cooler Heads Coalition">Cooler Heads Coalition</a>.

Consumer Alert published a "declaration of support" for agricultural biotechnology signed by over 600 scientists including signatories from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a> (67 individuals), Pioneer Hibred (22 individuals), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dow_Chemical_Company" title="Dow Chemical Company">Dow</a> (21 individuals) and AmerIcan Council on Science and Health (2 individuals)

In 1998 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> was canvassing possible organisations that might be an ally in its Youth Smoking Prevention programs. A memo from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Marden" title="Roy Marden">Roy Marden</a> described Consumer Alert as a "DC free market consumer group, antithesis of the Nader effort. Perhaps we could involve them in an effort re responsible corporate activity w/consumers in mind, etc. Long-term recipient of (modest) PM funding". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aqg37c00">[2]</a>

<h2>Personnel</h2>

Board of Directors

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_C._MacLeod&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William C. MacLeod (page does not exist)">William C. MacLeod</a>, Chairman Consumer Alert, senior partner at the law firm 'Collier Shannon Scott', Washington, D.C.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carol_G._Dawson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carol G. Dawson (page does not exist)">Carol G. Dawson</a>, Morattico, VA</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Meiners" title="Roger Meiners">Roger Meiners</a>, University of Texas at Arlington, Office of the President, Arlington, TX</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbara_Keating-Edh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Keating-Edh (page does not exist)">Barbara Keating-Edh</a>, Founder & President Ex-Officio Consumer Alert, Modesto, CA</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terry_Neese" title="Terry Neese">Terry Neese</a>, Women Impacting Public Policy, Oklahoma City, OK</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frances_B._Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frances B. Smith (page does not exist)">Frances B. Smith</a>, Executive Director, Consumer Alert, Washington, D.C. (wife of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI) founder <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Smith" title="Fred Smith" style="">Fred Smith</a>)</li>

</ul>

Advisory Council

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_J._DiLorenzo" title="Thomas J. DiLorenzo">Thomas J. DiLorenzo</a>, Ph.D., Chairman of Consumer Alert's Advisory Council, Department of Economics Loyola College, Baltimore</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jonathan_H._Adler" title="Jonathan H. Adler">Jonathan H. Adler</a>, J.D., Assist. Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerry_J._Cohen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerry J. Cohen (page does not exist)">Jerry J. Cohen</a>, B.S., M.P.H., C.I.H, Senior Scientist, Science Applications International Corporation</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Dziuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Dziuk (page does not exist)">Philip Dziuk</a>, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Gordon_Edwards&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. Gordon Edwards (page does not exist)">J. Gordon Edwards</a>, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology San Jose State University</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hugh_W._Ellsaesser" title="Hugh W. Ellsaesser">Hugh W. Ellsaesser</a>, Ph.D., Guest Scientist, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory">Lawrence Livermore Laboratory</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=A.C._Lowell_Harriss&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A.C. Lowell Harriss (page does not exist)">A.C. Lowell Harriss</a>, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics Columbia University</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_W._Hazlett" title="Thomas W. Hazlett">Thomas W. Hazlett</a>, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Agri. Economics, University of California, Davis</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ernest_B._Hueter" title="Ernest B. Hueter">Ernest B. Hueter</a>, President National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Janda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Janda (page does not exist)">David Janda</a>, M.D., Director of the Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_Kantrowitz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Kantrowitz (page does not exist)">Arthur Kantrowitz</a>, Ph.D., Physicist/Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Kleinbaum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Kleinbaum (page does not exist)">David Kleinbaum</a>, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University School of Pubic Health, Atlanta, Georgia</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_A._Kudlow" title="Lawrence A. Kudlow">Lawrence A. Kudlow</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a>, New York, New York</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Margaret_N._Maxey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margaret N. Maxey (page does not exist)">Margaret N. Maxey</a>, Ph.D., Clint W. Murchison Senior Chair of Free Enterprise, University of Texas, Austin</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tex_McCrary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tex McCrary (page does not exist)">Tex McCrary</a>, President, Texcomm</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_J._McKetta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John J. McKetta (page does not exist)">John J. McKetta</a>, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_J._Michaels" title="Patrick J. Michaels" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Patrick J. Michaels</a>, Ph.D., Department of Environmental Science University of Virginia, Charlottesville</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Henry_I._Miller" title="Henry I. Miller">Henry I. Miller</a>, M.D., Senior Research Fellow, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hoover_Institute" title="Hoover Institute" class="mw-redirect">Hoover Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_C._Miller_III" title="James C. Miller III" class="mw-redirect">James C. Miller III</a>, Ph.D., Counselor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_P._Miller" title="Thomas P. Miller">Tom Miller</a>, Director of Health Policy Studies, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J.A._Parker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J.A. Parker (page does not exist)">J.A. Parker</a>, President Lincoln Institute For Research and Education</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_W.Poole,Jr." title="Robert W. Poole, Jr.">Robert W. Poole, Jr.</a>, President, The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation">Reason Foundation</a>, Los Angeles, CA</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_T._Rombough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles T. Rombough (page does not exist)">Charles T. Rombough</a>, Ph.D., President, CTR Technical Services Inc., Arlington, Texas</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Malcolm_Ross" title="Malcolm Ross">Malcolm Ross</a>, Ph.D., Research Scientist (Retired), United States Geological Survey</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harold_Russell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harold Russell (page does not exist)">Harold Russell</a>, Vice President, FMC Corp. (Retired), Washington, DC</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrence_Scanlon" title="Terrence Scanlon">Terrence Scanlon</a>, President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center">Capital Research Center</a>, Washington, D.C.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_A._Sparks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John A. Sparks (page does not exist)">John A. Sparks</a>, J.D., President, Public Policy Education Fund, Grove City, Pennsylvania</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Glenn_Schleede&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glenn Schleede (page does not exist)">Glenn Schleede</a>, President Energy Market & Policy Analysis Inc., Vienna, VA</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lewis_K._Uhler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis K. Uhler (page does not exist)">Lewis K. Uhler</a>, J.D., President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Tax_Limitation_Committee" title="National Tax Limitation Committee">National Tax Limitation Committee</a>, Roseville, California</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elizabeth_Whelan" title="Elizabeth Whelan">Elizabeth Whelan</a>, Ph.D., M.P.H., Dr. Sc., Executive Director American Council on Science and Health, New York, New York</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walter_E._Williams" title="Walter E. Williams">Walter E. Williams</a>, Ph.D., John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bruce_Yandle" title="Bruce Yandle">Bruce Yandle</a>, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Clemson University</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benjamin_Zycher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benjamin Zycher (page does not exist)">Benjamin Zycher</a>, Ph.D., M.P.P., A.B., Economist</li>

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Staff

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Plummer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Plummer (page does not exist)">James Plummer</a>, Policy Analyst</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barbara_Rippel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Rippel (page does not exist)">Barbara Rippel</a>, Policy Analyst</li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li>Roy Marden, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aqg37c00">YSP Ally possibilities</a>", Bates No 2069615360, October 22, 1998.</li>

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<h2>Contact information</h2>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.consumeralert.org/">www.consumeralert.org</a> (now defunct)

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= MILLOY:<ul style="">Consumer AlertThe CEI is also linked to a "free market" outfit called Consumer Alert, which is actually an industry-funded front-group (astroturf organisation) supported by the Chlorine Chemistry Council. This is itself an arm of the Chemical Manufacturers Association (the descendent of the Manufacturing Chemists Association which led the attack on Rachael Carson in 1962).A secretary at Chlorine Council inadvertently revealed to a reporter that the group has a $13.5 million annual budget including more than $2 million a year for "communications". Consumer Alert has been vocal in its dismissal of the recent book 'Our Stolen Future' following the pattern which was established when the chemical industry went after Rachael Carson's 'Silent Spring'.After ICE collapsed, it was replaced by the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) as the 'grassroots' organisation supporting the oil, coal, power and electricity distribution industry on environmental issues, and Milloy was working with the GCC during Kyoto. PR Watch reported "TASSC attempted to stimulate anti-treaty email to President Clinton by promising to enter writers' names in a $1,000 sweepstakes drawing."</ul><a href="http://www.lions.odu.edu/org/scienceandreason/srhr/links/milloy-1.htm">http://www.lions.odu.edu/org/scienceandreason/srhr/links/milloy-1.htm</a>===

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