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<b>1994 Aug</b> A [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] report '''"The EPA and the Science of ETS"''' has been funded by the Tobacco Institute. The author was Adjunct Scholar [[Kent Jeffreys]], and the senior reviewer was [[S. Fred Singer]], a Professor of Environmental Science (on leave from the University of Virginia) and a Senior Fellow at the Institute. The final report was scheduled to be complete mid-June and it would be entitled '''"Science and Environmentalism"'''.
A confidential memo by the president of the [[Tobacco Institute]], [[Samuel D. Chilcote, Jr.]], described how this secret tobacco-funded report was being used in legislative lobbying: <blockquote><I>This morning Reps. Peter Geren (D-TX) and John Mica (R-FL) held a press conference announcing the release of a study by the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] that evaluates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) scientific principles used to justify policy decisions. Geren and Mica were joined by [[Cesar Conda]], executive director of the de Tocqueville Institution and coauthors Dr. [[S. Fred Singer]] and [[Kent Jeffreys]]." [http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TIMN0044655-4656.html?pattern=ALEXIS+DE+TOCQUEVILLE+INSTITUTION&?pattern=ALEXIS+DE+TOCQUEVILLE+INSTITUTION#images]
"Press coverage included States News Service, Stephens Publishing and Cable Congress. Several congressional staffers also attended, copies of the Geren/Mica "Dear Colleague" letter, press release and the study are enclosed."
[http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TIMN0044655-4656.html?pattern=ALEXIS+DE+TOCQUEVILLE+INSTITUTION&?pattern=ALEXIS+DE+TOCQUEVILLE+INSTITUTION#images]</i></blockquote>
This report is part of a larger coordinated effort to blindside the EPA. A "panel of experts" was assembled to "peer-review" the report. Naturally the majority were people with identified links to tobacco-funded institutes and think tanks, and some who share the same small set of funders.
'''Academic Advisory Board:'''
* Dr. [[Gary M. Anderson|Gary Anderson]], Professor of '''Economics''', California State University-Northridge
* Dr. [[Nancy Bord]] Visiting Scholar The [[Hoover Institution]] Stanford University
* Dr. [[Gordon L. Brady]] Associate Professor and Director Environmental Studies Sweet Briar College
* Dr. [[Jeff Ray Clark|Jeffrey Clark]] Professor of '''Economics''' University of Tennessee-Chattanoogna
* Dr. [[Michael Darby]] Professor of '''Economics''' and Director [[John M. Olin Center for Policy]] University of California, Los Angeles
* Dr. [[Robert Ekelund]] Lowder Eminent Scholar Auburn University
* Dr. [[Michael Gough]] Project Director Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
* Dr. [[William Hazeltine]] Environmental Consultant
* Dr. [[Thomas Hopkins]] Gosnell Professor of '''Economics''' Rochester Institute of Technology
* Dr. [[Dwight R. Lee]] Ramsey Professor of '''Economics''' University of Georgia
* Dr. [[Michael Marlow]], Professor of '''Economics''', California State Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo
* Dr. [[Thomas Gale Moore]] Senior Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford University
* Dr. [[Malcolm Ross]] Research Mineralogist U.S. Geological Survey
* Dr. [[S. Fred Singer]] Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia and President [[Science and Environmental Policy Project]]
* Dr. [[Gerhard Stohrer|Gerhard Stöhrer]] Director of Chemical Risk Program Science and Environmental Policy Project and former Department Head Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
* Dr. [[Mark Thornton]] Professor of '''Economics''' Auburn University
* Dr. [[Robert D. Tollison]] Duncan Black Professor of '''Economics''' and Director [[Center for the Study of Public Choice]] [[George Mason University]]
* Dr. [[Richard Vedder]] Professor of '''Economics''' University of Ohio
* Dr. [[Richard E. Wagner|Richard Wagner]] Professor of '''Economics''' and Chairman Department of '''Economics''' [[George Mason University]]
'''Senior Staff and Contributing Associates'''<br>
[[Rachael Applegate]], [[Bruce Bartlett]], [[Merrick Carey]], [[Cesar Conda]], [[Gregory Fossedal]], [[Dave Juday]], [[Felix Rouse]], [[Aaron Stevens]]
Ten of the 19 names of the Academic Advisory Board are members of the [[Cash for Comments Economists Network]]. At this time [[S. Fred Singer]] was a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, but they chose not to credit him with such close links.
These attempt to link the tobacco industry's problems to arguments about climate change were part funded by the [[Olin Foundation]], [[Koch Family Foundations]] and [[Scaife Foundations]].
* 20 page Draft document sent to the Tobacco Institute [http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/nycb0047]
* The release about the final report (August 11 1994) It is now an attack on "environmental regulation" -- ETS, radon, pesticides and agricultural regulation, and the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program ... and based, supposedly, on the quality of the science used by the EPA. [https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/jmjc0037]
* The final report was called ''Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination.''' It had the approval of the [[Cash for Comments Economists Network]]. [http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/fpgg0124]
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