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Milloy runs the website [[Junk science|Junkscience.com]].com, which is dedicated to debunking what he alleges to be false claims regarding [[global warming]], DDT, environmental radicalism and scare science among other topics.[http://www.junkscience.com/define.htm] His other website, [[CSR Watch.com]], is focused around attacking the [[corporate social responsibility]] movement. He is also head of the [[Free Enterprise Action Fund]], a mutual fund he runs with tobacco executive [[Thomas J. Borelli]], who happens to be listed as the secretary of the [[Advancement of Sound Science Center]], an organisation Milloy operates from his home in Potomac, Maryland.

In January 2006, Paul D. Thacker , a journalist who specializes in science, medicine and environmental topics, reported in ''The New Republic'' that Milloy has received thousands of dollars in payments from the [[Phillip Morris]] company since the early nineties, and that NGOs controlled by Milloy have received large payments from [[ExxonMobil]] [https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20060206&s=thacker020606]. A spokesperson for [[Fox News]] stated, "Fox News was unaware of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris. Any affiliation he had should have been disclosed."

Milloy has spent much of his life as a lobbyist for major corporations and trade organisations organizations which have poisioning or polluting problems. He originally ran NEPI (the [http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=56 National Environmental Policy Institute](NEPI) which was founded by Republican Rep [[Don Ritter]] (who tried to get [[tobacco industry]] funding) using oil and gas industry funding. {{fact}} NEPI was dedicated to transforming both the [[EPA]] and the [[FDA]], and challenging the cost of Superfund toxic cleanups by these large corporations.

NEPI was also associated with the AQSC ( [[Air Quality Standards Coalition]](AQSC) which was devoted to emasculating weakening Clean Air laws. This organisation organization took up the cry of "we need [[sound science]]" from the chemical industry as a way to counter claims of pollution -- and Milloy became involved in what became known as the "sound-science" movement. Its most effective ploy was to label science not beneficial scientific findings that were detrimental to the large funding corporations as "junk." -- and Milloy was one of its most effective lobbyists because he wrote well, and used humourhumor.

He Milloy joined [[Philip Morris]]'s specialist-science/PR company [[APCO & Associates]] in 1992as a consultant, working behind the scenes on a business venture known as "[[Issues Watch]]". <ref>[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/tzy67c00 Notes of Meeting CA Legal Support] Memorandum. 1 page. March 21, 2000. Philip Morris Bates No. 2078856239</ref> By this time, APCO had been taken over and become a part of the world-wide [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market Grey Marketing] organization, and so Milloy was able to use the international organization as a feed source for services to corporations who had international problems.{{fact}}

The Junkscience web site was supposedly run by a pseudo-grassroots organization called [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]] (TASSC), organized by APCO for Philip Morris,<ref>Apco Associates [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aly03e00 Revised Plan for the Public Launching of TASSC (through 930000)] REport. 12 pp. October 15, 1993. Philip Morris Bates No. 2045930493/0504</ref> which initially paid ex-Governor [[Garrey Carruthers]] of New Mexico as a [[Front groups|front]].<ref>Jack Lenzi, Philip Morris [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/gwi82c00 TASSC] Memo. 2 pp. February 22, 1994. Bates No. 2078848225/8226</ref> Milloy actually ran it from the back-room, and issued the press releases. Then when Carruthers resigned, Milloy started to call himself "Director." [[Bonner Cohen]] -- who also worked for APCO -- became "President."{{fact}}

Initially all of this was funded by Philip Morris, as part of their contributions to the distortion of tobacco science, but later they widened PM broadened the focus and introduced to gather even more funding by establishing a coalition -- with garnering participation from energy, pharmaceutical, chemical companies. TASSC's funders include [[3M]], [[Amoco]], [[Chevron]], [[Dow Chemical]], [[Exxon]], [[General Motors]], [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], [[Lorillard Tobacco]], [[Louisiana Chemical Association]], [[National Pest Control Association]], [[Occidental Petroleum]], [[Philip Morris]] Companies, [[Procter & Gamble]], [[Santa Fe Pacific Gold]], and [[W.R. Grace]], the asbestos and pesticide manufacturers. <ref>[ http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/sdf47d00 N100 (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) Supporters List)] List. 14 pp. December, 1994. Philip Morris Bates No. 2070270098/0111</ref>