GE—Attacked From Right for Not Supporting Pollution

[The Whiskey Priest]

“In the last year or so, Immelt and GE have become the unlikely darlings of the environmental movement. GE promotes solar and wind power and it agreed, at long last, to clean up toxic chemicals that it dumped into the Hudson River years ago. The company has also pledged to curb its emissions of greenhouse gases, aligning itself with those who argue that the problem of global warming is real, important and caused by man-made emissions.

(Omit)

So now, along with cheers from the tree-huggers, Immelt is attracting jeers from conservatives who say he has gone too far. A political activist named Steven Milloy, who runs a small mutual fund called the Free Enterprise Action Fund (FEAF), has filed a shareholder resolution asking GE to justify its policy on global warming.

(Omit)

The backlash against GE comes from a controversial source. Milloy is a lawyer, a columnist for FoxNews.com and former adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institution who has battled environmentalists for years. He has run nonprofit groups that attack environmentalists and have received funding from Altria, parent company of Philip Morris, and Exxon Mobil, according to The New Republic magazine. Without disclosing his support from business, Milloy has written about smoking research and global warming on his Web site”

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/01/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/

The rabid right wants everyone to toe the line on their paradigm of the world and the way it should work.

[papau]

1. His "Junkscience" site is funded by Exxon - he only gets $100 per

column over at Fox but the role is as a lobbyist.

He has a B.A. in Natural Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center but is a rather stupid evil person - IMHO.

[screembloodymurder]

2. I will never understand this attitude.

It's like encouraging litterers to throw trash on the ground. Who are these people?

[hatrack]

3. Cato is a front for Koch Industries; Milloy is just one more corpo-hack

And we're supposed to care about their rent-a-science press releases - why?

[Moochy]

4. Legacy Tobacco Documents Library 380 hits on "Steven Milloy"

I decided to search for Steven Milloy in the Legacy Tobacco Archives http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

I found 380 documents found matching "Steven Milloy". Click here to see the search results for yourselves.
http://ltdlftd.library.ucsf.edu/search?query=%22Steven+Milloy%22&ct=1&page=1

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) offers integrated searching of tobacco industry documents previously released through disparate industry websites, which are slated to cease in 2010. Through the support of the American Legacy Foundation, the LTDL will maintain this data through a permanent, stable interface.