Competitive Enterprise Institute - Revision history

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Miriam Rose at 10:16, 7 July 2010

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Lynn Hill: added category

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Claire Robinson: /* Funding */

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Claire Robinson: /* Principals */

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Claire Robinson: /* Principals */

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Claire Robinson: /* Principals */

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Claire Robinson: /* Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech */

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Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech

Claire Robinson: /* Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech */

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Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech

Claire Robinson at 16:19, 11 May 2009

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 *[[Sarah Scaife Foundation]]
 *[[Texaco]], Texaco Foundation
 Other known CEI funders include:

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 '''Competitive Enterprise Institute''', founded in 1984, says it "has grown into a $3,000,000 institution with a team of nearly 40 policy experts and other staff".<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20020127163935/http://www.cei.org/pages/about.cfm About CEI]", Competitive Enterprise Institute website, version placed in web archive January 27 2002, accessed in web archive April 27 2009</ref>
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 [[Category:Think Tanks]]
 [[Category:Climate Change Sceptics]]

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 [[Exxon]] has donated $1 million to the CEI since 1998. {{ref|5}}
-[[Monsanto]] is also amongst CEI's funders {{ref|6}}
+According to an article by Bob Burton for IPS, [[Monsanto]] has also been amongst CEI's funders.<ref>Bob Burton, "[http://www.biosafety-info.net/bioart.php?bid=170&ac=st US struggles in rearguard campaign for GE crops]", IPS-Inter Press Service, 1 April 2004, accessed 11 May 2009</ref>
 ==Contact==

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 *[[Jody Clarke]] Vice President for Communications.
-*[[Gregory Conko]] Director of Food Safety Policy. Mr. Conko is also the Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the [[AgBioWorld Foundation]]. Writes for [[Tech Central Station]] (see below).
+*[[Gregory Conko]] Director of Food Safety Policy. Mr. Conko is also the Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the [[AgBioWorld Foundation]]. Writes for [[Tech Central Station]].
-*[[Myron Ebell]] Director of [[Global Warming and International Environmental Policy]]. Oversees all global warming and international environmental work at CEI. He also chairs the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]], the subgroup of the [[National Consumers Coalition]] that works to debunk climate change. Prior to coming to CEI, [[Ebell]] was policy director at [[Frontiers of Freedom]] and the Washington representative of the [[Wise Use Movement|Wise Use]] group, the American Land Rights Association run by Chuck Cushman (see above). Ebell's financial file is separate.
+*[[Myron Ebell]] Director of [[Global Warming and International Environmental Policy]]. Oversees all global warming and international environmental work at CEI. He also chairs the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]], the subgroup of the [[National Consumers Coalition]] that works to debunk climate change. Prior to coming to CEI, [[Ebell]] was policy director at [[Frontiers of Freedom]] and the Washington representative of the [[Wise Use Movement|Wise Use]] group, the American Land Rights Association run by Chuck Cushman. Ebell's financial file is separate.
 *[[Christopher C. Horner]] Counsel, [[Cooler Heads Coalition]] and Senior Fellow, CEI. Another [[Tech Central Station]] contributor. {{ref|7}}

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 *[[Gregory Conko]] Director of Food Safety Policy. Mr. Conko is also the Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the [[AgBioWorld Foundation]]. Writes for [[Tech Central Station]] (see below).
-*[[Myron Ebell]] Director of [[Global Warming and International Environmental Policy]]. Oversees all global warming and international environmental work at CEI. He also chairs the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]], the subgroup of the [[National Consumers Coalition]] that works to debunk climate change. Prior to coming to CEI, [[Ebell]] was policy director at [[Frontiers of Freedom]] and the Washington representative of [[Wise Use]] group, the American Land Rights Association run by Chuck Cushman (see above). Ebell's financial file is separate.
+*[[Myron Ebell]] Director of [[Global Warming and International Environmental Policy]]. Oversees all global warming and international environmental work at CEI. He also chairs the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]], the subgroup of the [[National Consumers Coalition]] that works to debunk climate change. Prior to coming to CEI, [[Ebell]] was policy director at [[Frontiers of Freedom]] and the Washington representative of the [[Wise Use Movement|Wise Use]] group, the American Land Rights Association run by Chuck Cushman (see above). Ebell's financial file is separate.
 *[[Christopher C. Horner]] Counsel, [[Cooler Heads Coalition]] and Senior Fellow, CEI. Another [[Tech Central Station]] contributor. {{ref|7}}
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 *[[Angela Logomasini]] Director of Risk and Environmental Policy. Was Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Sam Brownback]] from 1996-1998. From 1989 to 1994, Logomasini worked for the front group [[Citizens for a Sound Economy]] (CSE), serving as Director of Solid Waste Policy for its affiliate, [[Citizens for the Environment]]. {{ref|9}}
 *[[Iain Murray]] Senior Fellow at CEI, specializing in global climate change and environmental science. Murray edits [[Cooler Heads]], the biweekly newsletter of the [[Cooler Heads Coalition]]. He regularly writes on climate and other issues for [[Tech Central Station]]. {{ref|10}}
 ===Scholars/Fellows===

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 On the 12 January, the CEI and ten other right-wing think tanks and front groups wrote to the [[Department of Energy]], urging them not to establish "a system of emissions credits as part of its greenhouse gases reporting program." It was joined by the [[American Conservative Union]], [[Americans for Tax Reform]], [[American Legislative Exchange Council]], [[Citizens Against Government Waste]], [[Citizens for a Sound Economy]], [[Consumer Alert]], [[Frontiers of Freedom]], [[National Taxpayers Union]], [[60 Plus Association]], and the [[Small Business Survival Committee]]. According to the CEI, a "credit program would mobilize lobbying for energy rationing schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol, Senator [[Jim Jeffords]]' Clean Power Act, and the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act." {{ref|82}}
-==Principals==
+==People==
 *[[Jack Kemp]] The CEI's "Distinguished Fellow" served four years as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and as the US Representative from New York state (18 years). In 1996, he was nominated by then Senator [[Bob Dole]] as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate.

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 ==Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech==
-[[Gregory Conko]] and [[C.S. Prakash]] are two of the most vociferous proponents of biotech in the US. Prakash is professor of plant genetics at Tuskeegee University in Alabama, and a co-founder of the [[AgBioWorld]] Foundation along with Conko. According to his biography, "Dr. Prakash has also been actively involved in enhancing the societal awareness of food biotechnology issues around the world. His Internet website http://www.AgBioWorld.org has become an important portal, disseminating information and promoting discussion on this subject among stakeholders such as scientists, policy makers, activists and journalists. He recently served on the [[USDA]]'s [[Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee]] and continues to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology for the government of India". {{ref|15}}
+CEI affiliates [[Gregory Conko]] and [[C.S. Prakash]] are two of the most vociferous proponents of biotech in the US. Prakash is professor of plant genetics at Tuskeegee University in Alabama, and a co-founder of the [[AgBioWorld]] Foundation along with Conko. According to his biography, "Dr. Prakash has also been actively involved in enhancing the societal awareness of food biotechnology issues around the world. His Internet website http://www.AgBioWorld.org has become an important portal, disseminating information and promoting discussion on this subject among stakeholders such as scientists, policy makers, activists and journalists. He recently served on the [[USDA]]'s [[Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee]] and continues to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology for the government of India". {{ref|15}}
 Prakash claims that his newsletter 'AgBioView' is read by more than 4,000 experts in 55 countries, and is "widely recognized as a premier news outlet on agbiotech issues because of its broad focus on technical, societal and ethical issues". {{ref|16}}

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 *[[Center for Environmental Education Research]] Michael Sanera's organization based in Washington, D.C. {{ref|14}}
-===Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech===
+==Conko and Prakash – Pro-Biotech==
 [[Gregory Conko]] and [[C.S. Prakash]] are two of the most vociferous proponents of biotech in the US. Prakash is professor of plant genetics at Tuskeegee University in Alabama, and a co-founder of the [[AgBioWorld]] Foundation along with Conko. According to his biography, "Dr. Prakash has also been actively involved in enhancing the societal awareness of food biotechnology issues around the world. His Internet website http://www.AgBioWorld.org has become an important portal, disseminating information and promoting discussion on this subject among stakeholders such as scientists, policy makers, activists and journalists. He recently served on the [[USDA]]'s [[Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Committee]] and continues to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Biotechnology for the government of India". {{ref|15}}

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 It has close working relationship with other right wing think tanks as well as the [[Wise Use Movement]]. It is a member of the Wise Use umbrella organisation, the [[Alliance for America]]. {{ref|3}}
 ==Projects/Issues==
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 On the 12 January, the CEI and ten other right-wing think tanks and front groups wrote to the [[Department of Energy]], urging them not to establish "a system of emissions credits as part of its greenhouse gases reporting program." It was joined by the [[American Conservative Union]], [[Americans for Tax Reform]], [[American Legislative Exchange Council]], [[Citizens Against Government Waste]], [[Citizens for a Sound Economy]], [[Consumer Alert]], [[Frontiers of Freedom]], [[National Taxpayers Union]], [[60 Plus Association]], and the [[Small Business Survival Committee]]. According to the CEI, a "credit program would mobilize lobbying for energy rationing schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol, Senator [[Jim Jeffords]]' Clean Power Act, and the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act." {{ref|82}}
 ==Funding==