Opening Shot: Legal Pursuit of Deniers’ and Polluters’ Emails, To Show Who’s Really Cooking the Science Books
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Adam Feiler, 703-302-8395, polluterwatch@gmail.com, Joe Smyth, 831-566-5647, joe.smyth@greenpeace.org
December 16, 2009
Today we sent Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests to the home institutions of several prominent global warming skeptics. The request letters were sent to various state governors’ offices and state universities, as well as to the Smithsonian Institute, seeking information on scientists who are employees or former employees of these institutions.
The FOIA filings request a listing of all grants in support of research, copies of conflict of interest and outside income disclosures, copies of all email sent and received, and copies of CVs on file with the institutions.
After years of denying its role in the campaign of climate denial, Exxon has revealed a dirty secret, that it has and likely still is DIRECTLY funding junk scientists. PolluterWatch has a full profile of Willie Soon.
On November 19, 2009, Greenpeace activists deployed a balloon banner in the lobby of the San Francisco hotel where the Chamber of Commerce was holding meetings. Tom Donohue, President of the Chamber, has been fighting climate legislation with misinformation and lies, while claiming to represent 3 million American businesses even though the actual number of businesses the Chamber represents is closer to 300,000.
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