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=<div>pres prickett met w/ pruitt earth day BS?</div><div></div><div>CLC carbon tax</div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032019/carbon-tax-proposals-compare-baker-shultz-exxon-conocophillips-ccl-congress">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032019/carbon-tax-proposals-compare-baker-shultz-exxon-conocophillips-ccl-congress</a>Not long ago, a carbon tax was the untouchable third rail of climate politics."We have done extensive polling on carbon tax. It all sucks," John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, wrote to another adviser in a memorable <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16655" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">January 2015 email</a> from the Wikileaks stash.But four years later, amid the political upheaval wrought by President Donald Trump, several carbon tax proposals are getting a serious look on Capitol Hill. Ironically, the president's rejection of climate science and his fossil fuel-focused agenda may have helped usher in an era when carbon taxation is politically thinkable.One <a href="https://teddeutch.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399493" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">carbon fee-and-dividend</a> plan has already been introduced in Congress and more are expected. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-a-green-new-deal-heres-a-better-one/2019/02/24/2d7e491c-36d2-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.c941f0fa334e" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Editorial pages</a> and conservative <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/opinion/green-new-deal.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">pundits</a> are talking about carbon taxes as a pragmatic way to achieve the <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032019/green-new-deal-carbon-tax-compromise-climate-policy-congress-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-ccl-economists" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">goals of the Green New Deal</a>. And the opinion polls look a lot different than the ones that caused Podesta to recoil.A <a href="http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">plurality of Americans</a>—44 percent—say they support a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taxing carbon-based fuels, according to a poll conducted last November by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and the Associated Press. (Only 29 percent said they were opposed, while 25 percent were neutral.) A <a href="https://www.clcouncil.org/media/YaleGMU-Poll-October-2018.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">survey </a>of registered voters by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University found that 58 percent said they would favor a Republican-proposed carbon tax that would return all revenue to households in the form of monthly rebate checks.More and more states and local governments are jumping in with <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28112018/state-carbon-pricing-tax-fee-climate-change-washington-oregon-new-jersey-virginia-hawaii-massachusetts-new-york" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">carbon pricing plans of their own</a> to fill the climate leadership void that Trump has created.Energy companies face the prospect of 50 different regulatory approaches on greenhouse gases in the United States—a powerful incentive for them to seek one uniform, predictable, national approach. ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are among the oil companies backing a campaign to get their favored version of a carbon tax introduced in the Senate this year, one that would also protect them from other climate regulations and lawsuits.There are significant differences between the carbon tax proposal backed by Big Oil and the approaches backed by environmental activists. And while carbon pricing could help put the U.S. on track to zero emissions by mid-century, experts warn that a poorly designed plan could be too weak to get the job done.A close look at two economy-wide carbon tax proposals—the oil industry-backed plan, developed by former Republican Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz, and legislation backed by a grassroots environmental group, Citizens' Climate Lobby—highlights some of the key questions that policymakers will face as they weigh competing carbon tax plans.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How High a Carbon Tax?</h3>Baker-Shultz proposal: Although its plan has not been formally introduced yet, the framework laid out by the Climate Leadership Council, a coalition of industry and environmental groups that support the Baker-Shultz proposal, would start a carbon tax at about $40 per ton, escalating by 2 to 5 percent annually, and reaching as high as $65 per ton by 2030.Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act: The bipartisan measure sponsored by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) would levy a carbon tax beginning at $15 per ton, escalating by $10 annually, and reaching $115 a ton by 2030. That averages out to a 24 percent annual increase—higher than any other recent climate proposal.<div class="media media-element-container media-image_centered_medium" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 648px; margin: 0.25em auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;">The Nature Conservancy is considered a <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Big_Green" title="Big Green" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Big Green</a> environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It is a member of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Natural_Resources_Council_of_America" title="Natural Resources Council of America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Natural Resources Council of America</a>. It "sits on nearly a billion dollars in assets and is awash in cash, thanks to a tidal wave of corporate donations, much of it from notorious polluters such as <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arco (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Arco</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Archer_Daniels_Midland" title="Archer Daniels Midland" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Archer-Daniels-Midland</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_Petroleum" title="British Petroleum" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">British Petroleum</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DuPont" title="DuPont" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DuPont</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shell" title="Shell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Shell</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freeport-McMoRan_Copper%26_Gold" title="Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Freeport-McMoRan</a>. The group eschews political work in favor of the relatively noncontroversial project of buying land. Calling itself "Nature's real estate agent," the Nature Conservancy purchases private land and then sells it to state and federal agencies, often, according to its critics, at a considerable mark-up. Last year, the group violated its apolitical policy to concoct the compromise rewrite of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Endangered_Species_Act" title="Endangered Species Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Endangered Species Act</a> with a secret coalition of corporations and trade associations, including the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Homebuilder%27s_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Homebuilder's Association (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">National Homebuilder's Association</a> and timber giant <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Georgia-Pacific_Corporation" title="Georgia-Pacific Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Georgie-Pacific</a>. The group is led by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Sawhill" title="John Sawhill" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Sawhill</a>, former energy aide to <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nixon</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ford</a> and a fanatical proponent of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nuclear_power" title="Nuclear power" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">nuclear power</a>, who has enjoyed lucrative positions on the boards of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Procter%26_Gamble" title="Procter & Gamble" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Procter & Gamble</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=North_American_Coal_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North American Coal Company (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">North American Coal Company</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pacific_Gas%26_Electric&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pacific Gas & Electric (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pacific Gas & Electric</a>. Budget: $337 million Staff: 1,200 Members: 720,000 individuals; 220 corporations Salary of CEO: More than $196,000, including benefits." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/EnvMovement.html" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a> The Washington Post has produced <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/natureconservancy/" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">a Special Report titled BIG GREEN</a> which as series of investigative articles exposes the corporate infestation of The Nature Conservancy and "documents on the organization's transformation from a grassroots group to a corporate juggernaut."<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_R.Tercek" title="Mark R. Tercek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark R. Tercek</a> (as of July 2008)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former President - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steve_McCormick" title="Steve McCormick" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steve McCormick</a> (2001-07)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former Acting President and CEO - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephanie_Meeks" title="Stephanie Meeks" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephanie Meeks</a> (She took over the top spot when Steve McCormick left to run the Moore Foundation)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former Chief of Staff, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jill_Isenbarger" title="Jill Isenbarger" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jill Isenbarger</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">
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</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Directors</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Former_Board_of_directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1Former Board of directors</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Executive_Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Executive Committee</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Contact_Details" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Contact Details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Resources</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#Sourcewatch_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1Sourcewatch Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.2External links</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Directors</h2>Accessed June 2009: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Nature_Conservancy#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman of the Board - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Milliken,Jr." title="Roger Milliken, Jr." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Milliken, Jr.</a> - President, Baskahegan Company</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President and Chief Executive Officer - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_R.Tercek" title="Mark R. Tercek" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark R. Tercek</a> - The Nature Conservancy</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Vice Chair - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gordon_Crawford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Crawford (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gordon Crawford</a> - Senior Vice President, Capital Research and Management Company</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Vice Chair - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roberto_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Ram%C3%ADrez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roberto Hernández Ramírez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roberto Hernández Ramírez</a> - Chairman, Banco Nacional de Mexico</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Muneer_A.Satter" title="Muneer A. Satter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Muneer A. Satter</a> - Managing Director, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Secretary - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Georgia_Welles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgia Welles (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgia Welles</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chair, Audit Committee - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_P.Sall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John P. Sall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John P. Sall</a> - Executive Vice President, Director and Co-Founder, SAS Institute</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chair, Conservation Activities Review Committee - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Teresa_Beck" title="Teresa Beck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Teresa Beck</a> - Former President, American Stores Co.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chair, Governance, Nominating, and Human Resources Committee - <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Groome&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Groome (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry Groome</a> - Author and Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joel_E.Cohen" title="Joel E. Cohen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joel E. Cohen</a> - Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor, Rockefeller University and Columbia University</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gretchen_C.Daily" title="Gretchen C. Daily" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gretchen C. Daily</a> - Department of Biological Sciences and Woods Institute for the Environment–Stanford University</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steven_A.Denning" title="Steven A. Denning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steven A. Denning</a> - Chairman, General Atlantic LLC</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_E.Loy" title="Frank E. Loy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank E. Loy</a> - Former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs United States Government</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_C.Morgan" title="James C. Morgan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James C. Morgan</a> - Chairman Emeritus, Applied Materials, Inc.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_S.Middleton" title="Thomas S. Middleton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas S. Middleton</a> - Senior Managing Director, Blackstone Group</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_W.Murdoch" title="William W. Murdoch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">William W. Murdoch</a> - Professor of Ecology, University of California–Santa Barbara</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Polasky" title="Stephen Polasky" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephen Polasky</a> - Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cristi%C3%A1n_Samper" title="Cristián Samper" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cristián Samper</a> - Director, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christine_M.Scott" title="Christine M. Scott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christine M. Scott</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_J.Tierney" title="Thomas J. Tierney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas J. Tierney</a> - Chairman and Co-Founder, The Bridgespan Group, Inc.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley_Young" title="Shirley Young" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shirley Young</a> - President, Shirley Young Associates</li></ul><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">Former Board of directors</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Teresa_Beck" title="Teresa Beck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Teresa Beck</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joel_E.Cohen" title="Joel E. Cohen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joel E. Cohen</a> - Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor Rockefeller University and Columbia University</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gretchen_C.Daily" title="Gretchen C. Daily" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gretchen C. Daily</a> - Department of Biological Sciences and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University - Stanford, California</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Groome&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Groome (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry Groome</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roberto_Hern%C3%A1ndez-Ram%C3%ADrez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roberto Hernández-Ramírez (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roberto Hernández-Ramírez</a> - Chairman <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Banco_Nacional_de_Mexico&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Banco Nacional de Mexico (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Banco Nacional de Mexico</a>, Mexico City, Mexico</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frances_C.James&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frances C. James (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frances C. James</a> - Professor Emeritus Florida State University, Department of Biological Science, Tallahassee, Florida</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Milliken,Jr." title="Roger Milliken, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roger Milliken, Jr.</a> - President <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Baskahegan_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Baskahegan Company (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Baskahegan Company</a>, Cumberland, Maine</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/William_W.Murdoch" title="William W. Murdoch" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">William W. Murdoch</a> - Professor of Ecology, University of California–Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_P.Sall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John P. Sall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John P. Sall</a> - Executive Vice President, Director and Co-Founder <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SAS_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SAS Institute (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SAS Institute</a>, Cary, North Carolina</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Muneer_A.Satter" title="Muneer A. Satter" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Muneer A. Satter</a> - Managing Director The <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Goldman_Sachs_Group" title="Goldman Sachs Group" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Goldman Sachs Group</a>, Inc., Chicago, Illinois</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christine_M.Scott" title="Christine M. Scott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christine M. Scott</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Georgia_Welles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgia Welles (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgia Welles</a> - Conservationist</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shirley_A.Young" title="Shirley A. Young" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shirley A. Young</a> - President <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shirley_Young_Associates&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shirley Young Associates (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shirley Young Associates</a>, New York, New York & Shanghai, China</li></ul><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nature.org/aboutus/leadership/art15462.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Source</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Executive Committee</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_P.Morgridge" title="John P. Morgridge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John P. Morgridge</a> - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cisco_Systems" title="Cisco Systems" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cisco Systems</a>, Inc.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steven_J.McCormick" title="Steven J. McCormick" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steven J. McCormick</a> - President and Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Georgia-Pacific_Corporation" title="Georgia-Pacific Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Georgia-Pacific Corporation</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/A.D.Correll,Jr." title="A. D. Correll, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">A. D. Correll, Jr.</a> - Chair, Audit Committee</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_C.Morgan" title="James C. Morgan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James C. Morgan</a> - Chair, Governance, Nominating, and Human Resources Committee, Chairman <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Applied_Materials&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Applied Materials (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Applied Materials</a>, Inc.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carol_E.Dinkins" title="Carol E. Dinkins" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carol E. Dinkins</a> - Vice Chair, Senior Partner <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Vinson%26_Elkins" title="Vinson & Elkins" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vinson & Elkins</a> L.L.P.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gordon_Crawford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Crawford (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gordon Crawford</a> - Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee, Senior Vice President <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_and_Management_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capital Research and Management Company (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Capital Research and Management Company</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jan_V.Portman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jan V. Portman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jan V. Portman</a> - Secretary, Conservationist</li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Contact Details</h2>Worldwide Office
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Taketa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kelvin H. Taketa</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_T.Bayley" title="Christopher T. Bayley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christopher T. Bayley</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anthony_Cavalieri" title="Anthony Cavalieri" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Anthony Cavalieri</a> - former advisor</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sanjayan_Muttulingam" title="Sanjayan Muttulingam" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sanjayan Muttulingam</a> - lead scientist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Graham_Chisholm" title="Graham Chisholm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Graham Chisholm</a> - California</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Louisa_C.Duemling" title="Louisa C. Duemling" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louisa C. Duemling</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maggie_Coon" title="Maggie Coon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maggie Coon</a> - former Director of Gov Relations</li></ul><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">External links</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jeffrey St. Clair and Bernardo Issel, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lightparty.com/Economic/EnvMovement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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new group of industry heavyweights, including oil majors Total, <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/exxon">ExxonMobil</a>, Royal Dutch Shell and BP, have voiced their support for a <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/robert-reich-carbon-tax-2250612264.html">Republican-led carbon tax</a> and dividend plan. Individual founding members include, Michael Bloomberg, Stephen Hawking and Steven Chu.The <a href="https://www.clcouncil.org/founding-members/" target="blank">Climate Leadership Council</a>, formed earlier this year to promote a <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/price-on-carbon-1990955696.html">carbon tax</a> as the most effective <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/">climate</a> solution, announced its new coalition of "Founding Members" today.Supporters include companies like Johnson & Johnson and General Motors and NGOs like the Nature Conservancy.The <a href="https://www.clcouncil.org/our-plan/" target="blank">plan</a> is made up of four parts. As Bloomberg writes:<ul><li>A <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/carbon-tax">carbon tax</a> on fossil-fuel combustion lets energy prices reflect the damage done to the climate from carbon dioxide emissions.</li><li>Money raised by the levy is refunded monthly to taxpayers—turning distant climate benefits into immediate cash.</li><li>A border tax on goods from countries without a carbon tax ensures that U.S. companies remain competitive.</li><li>Finally, the U.S. safely rolls back climate regulations. </li></ul>The council presented its plan, coauthored by several GOP senior statesmen, to Trump's economic adviser Gary Cohn in February.For a deeper dive:<a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=375bef4a05&e=d462721836" target="blank">New York Times</a> $, <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ba5221bb98&e=d462721836" target="blank">WSJ</a>$, <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=719f2a9031&e=d462721836" target="blank">Bloomberg</a>, <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ec20aec0d3&e=d462721836" target="blank">Axios</a>. Commentary: <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=8e023bdf86&e=d462721836" target="blank">Washington Post, George Shultz and Lawrence Summers op-ed</a> $, FT, <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=848a290a5d&e=d462721836" target="blank">Ted Halstead op-ed</a> $

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