How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA
A new report was released today by the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and it is damning. All this time that climate skeptics are accused of being in the employ of “big oil” is nothing more than a projection of their own greed.
Some excerpts:
Over 7.9 BILLION in funding between these groups.
Bill McKibben caught in a lie, he might be “scruffy” be he isn’t nearly broke as he once claimed:
The “epicenter” of funding disclosed:
The NRDC “mafia”
Josh wasn’t far off the mark:
Read the entire report here, then demand action from your legislators.
http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=8af3d005-1337-4bc3-bcd6-be947c523439
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One hand washes the other… And oh man, those hands are pretty dirty!
This is no surprise to anyone on the so called ‘skeptic’ side. I love it when the light gets shone on these people and it will be fun to see how they try to spin it.
You want to know what’s really impressive? How much the skeptics have accomplished with so little. Of course, that pesky 17 year pause has been a great help, you can’t buy help like that.
It does not matter how right this report is if the warmists, the RS, the APS etc do not agree it is right, then the politicians will continue to believe CAGW is correct,
Defunding could be very effective.
I assume that the party sum being attributed to GreenPeace in the table is only that controlled by their US affiliate. The global total must match that of WWF.
The question is will the congress do anything to eliminate this funding to eco groups? Wishful thinking I know.
‘Paltry’ not ‘party’
I can see Obama and the rest of the warmistas with their eyes covered hollering “I can’t see you.” And the beat will go on.
Wait just a darned minute! I thought the Kochtopus was the source of all money in the climate debate. Turns out government money, favors, regulations, and incentives are more important? And NGOs, pressure groups, and other charities are also tossing out cash and rewards?? Darn! Double darn.
Did anyone even suspect? :-p
I tried to scan through the referenced Senate government. I did not see the “7.9 billion dollar” figure for funding by the above groups. Could you have meant $7.9 billion in total assets controlled by these groups? One of the thoughts in the back of my mind is, “Does the EPA have an IG, and does this office actually do anything?”
These groups need a sound-bite sized name — one we can respond with every time the bad guys say “Koch Brothers.”
Thank you, Alan Carlin. http://www.carlineconomics.com/
If ever there was a time for the citizens of the USA to re-enable their founding fathers documents, this is it – get rid of these parasitic fraudsters NOW!
We’ll see if the liberal media picks up on this or whether they ignore it.
Senate Environment and Public Works committee…
…Barbara Boxer??
The article subtitle: “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA” ….is erroneous.
These foundations are bag-men money-launderers attempting to conceal the origins of their funding, lockstep political orientation and intertwined directorship lists. The Union of Concerned Scientists being an old-line Soviet front from the bowels of the Cold War should tell you all you need to know.
Collectively they all comprise “The Shadow Party” which has de facto run the US for decades now, with both the Democrats and the RINO Republican leadership long ago reduced to mere front-men tasked with obfuscation.
Darn! we didn’t crash those government agency hard drives quick enough……
Wake up America!
littlepeaks says:
July 30, 2014 at 12:27 pm
It would seem so:
31049040 + 3179681 + 50042142 + 12282335 + 58945673 + 208751208 + 1744942 + 15313140 + 7545946 + 450334791 + 66456891 + 268165564 + 6168924112 + 98974748 + 8195448 + 450932452
= 7900838113
Or $7,900,838,113
I was amazed to see the nature Conservancy’s net worth a few months ago. At least their focus is mostly on glomming on to lots of interesting real estate.
The level of corruption is simply breath taking.
many of the big DC based enviro groups used to have a core science team of biologists, enviro-ecologists, and data experts.
Of course that team costs money out of their budgets, and didn’t always yield the needed results to litigate against the EPA, at a time when the EPA had to base its regs and findings on the best science. Also money spent on hard science research was money that could be employed to public advocacy or on lobbyists buying Democrat votes in Congress on preferred legislation.
These groups are now disposing of their internal science groups.
see: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6175/1069.summary
Nowthat the NRDC and the other enviro groups effectively control the EPA and its regulatory process and the need for hard science results are gone. Thus they are shedding their core science teams.
Effectively, the politicization of all of the Obama cabinet and regulatory agencies means science, the rule of law, or logic is no longer necessary in making governing decisions. We already knew that here at WUWT community on the Climate Change fraud, but you can be sure it extends to every area that the Obama Admin controls.
I think there is a problem with The Nature Conservancy, they have it listed as worth 6.1 billion but is should be around 600 million. (That is according to Wikipedia).
I doubt the main stream media will mention this report. In order to get real change we will have to have a Republican controlled government, which I think will happen in January 2017.
I find this about the ALA in the report (pp. 29 – 30) to be quite disturbing…
The American Lung Association (ALA) receives the most Obama EPA grants among environmental groups the Committee reviewed, totaling nearly $14 million since 2009.
Over the last ten years, ALA has racked in $20,405,655 in EPA grants. Yet, ALA has been a main
litigant against EPA, frequently suing the Agency only to reach a cozy settlement agreement
while taxpayers foot the bill for ALA’s legal fees.
Moreover, since federal agencies are forbidden from lobbying, one scholar suggests that ALA acts as a surrogate to lobby for the EPA in exchange for generous grants, stating:
To survive, if not thrive, the ALA needed a source of revenue. The solution: selling its reputation as an organization only interested in promoting and protecting ‘the public interest’ to government agencies and commercial firms. By lobbying and engaging in political advocacy under the halo of ‘charity,’ the ALA sought to revive its fortunes.
Ummm… isn’t that called racketeering when the “mafia” does this to businesses?