UN FREAKING BELIVEABLE
No wait not with the community organizer in charge it is totally believable.
The Game Statistics
So, who are these guys at the NRDC? Well, it’s an interesting list.
Natural Resources Defense Council Board of Trustees
Chairman
Frederick A. O. Schwartz, Jr.
Partner, Cravath Swaine & Moore; (a British Law Firm) Former New York City Corporation Counsel (under Mayor Ed Koch)
Executive Director
Frances Beinecke
Co-founder, The New York League of Conservation Voters (with RFK Jr.)
Trustee
Laurance Rockefeller
Private philanthropist; Former Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Former chairman, Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality; Trustee, the Laurance Rockefeller Charitable Trust
Trustee
Thomas A. Troyer
Partner, Caplin & Drysdale; Former Chairman, the Foundation Lawyers’ Group; Former member of the IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group on Tax-exempt Organizations; (no conflict of interest there?) Board member, the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Pres & Co-founder
John H. Adams
Former Assistant US Attorney (New York)
Vice Chair
Adam Albright
Board member, Redefining Progress; Board Chair, Population Communications International; Program Chair, Conservation International
Vice Chair
Alan Horn
Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, Warner Brothers
Vice Chair
Burks Lapham
Chairman, Concern Inc.; Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation (a relatively benign group)
Vice Chair
George Woodwell
Founding Director, Woods Hole Research Center; Co-founder, Environmental Defense Fund (they banned DDT, Alar, etc.)
Co-founder & Treas
Richard E. Ayres
Partner, Howrey & Simon; Former Chairman, National Clean Air Coalition
Trustee
Patricia Bauman
Member, Pew Environmental Health Commission; Former Manager, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences; Co-Director, The Bauman Foundation
Trustee
William Richardson
Former US Secretary of Energy; Former US Ambassador to the United Nations; Former US Congressman (D-NM)
Trustee
Michael Finnegan
Managing Partner, J.P Morgan Securities
Is this "Natural Resources" defense, or natural resource SUPPLIERS defense?
Now, let’s look at who gives the NRDC money, shall we?
Top Funders of NRDC
Funder
Total Donated
Comments
Descriptions in bold are major energy investors
Pew Charitable Trusts
$11,568,000.00
Sunoco money
Blue Moon Fund
$7,818,735.00
This is W. Alton Jones Money (Citgo)
Energy Foundation
$6,965,000.00
Launched by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Rockefeller Foundation. The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation joined as a funding partner in 1996, and The McKnight Foundation joined in 1998. In 1999, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation joined to support two programs: the U.S. Clean Energy Program (now the Climate Program) and the China Sustainable Energy Program. In 2002, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation joined to support advanced technology transportation and clean energy for the West.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$5,636,500.00
Bankers Life and Casualty money (investment portfolio unknown)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
$4,681,097.00
Your tax dollars at work subsidizing the interests of whom?
Turner Foundation
$3,795,167.00
CNN, and a lot more
Public Welfare Foundation
$3,500,000.00
Too confounded to determine
Joyce Foundation
$3,309,445.00
Timber Wealth
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
$3,022,340.00
General Motors
Ford Foundation
$2,733,300.00
Ford
Beinecke Foundation
$2,150,000.00
Major player at Yale.
J. M. Kaplan Fund
$2,057,500.00
William Bingham Foundation
$1,995,000.00
Homeland Foundation
$1,733,000.00
San Francisco Foundation
$1,654,739.00
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
$1,377,510.00
Them again
McKnight Foundation
$1,365,500.00
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
$1,310,000.00
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
$1,310,000.00
Bauman Family Foundation
$1,226,000.00
Nathan Cummings Foundation
$1,220,000.00
Educational Foundation of America
$1,210,000.00
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
$1,205,000.00
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
$1,201,000.00
Carnegie Corporation of New York
$1,200,000.00
Park Foundation
$1,198,010.00
New York Community Trust
$1,186,821.00
Overbrook Foundation
$1,182,585.00
Surdna Foundation
$1,147,000.00
Bullitt Foundation
$1,122,675.00
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
$1,075,000.00
Note also the participation with the Energy Foundation
Quod erat demonstratum.
Most, if not all of these people at NRDC are energy investors.
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Same ol' same ol'.
With the usual kudos to FReeper CarieOkie