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* The [[EOP Group]], run by [[Michael O'Bannon]] and his associates in the Reagan White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
* [[Multinational Business Services]], run by [[Jim Tozzi]] (also ex-head of the OIRA), and [[Thorne Auchter]] (ex-head of the OSHA). This group was the [[Philip Morris]] tobacco company's primary lobbyist in Washington with respect to the issue of secondhand cigarette smoke.
* [[National Environmental Policy Institute]] (NEPI) founded in September 1993 by Congressmen [[Don Ritter]] and [[Dennis M . Hertel]], and funded by Occidental Petroleum which had problems with the government over a [[Superfund]] toxic spill cleanup. NEPI had links to The [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]] and to the [[Air Quality Standards Coalition]] fighting against pollution controls.
* [[Regulatory Impact Analysis Project]], Inc. a front group for the energy industry, that was fighting $400 million in Superfund clean ups. He was project manager in producing their "Choices in Risk Assessment" report
* [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] which funded him to write a 24 page booklet: "Regulatory Reform, Is it still a pipe-dream?"
