Perhaps the principal sponsor of those regulations is the Natural Resources Defense Council, also singularly responsible for MTBE. Guess who controls the NRDC?
Now, let’s look at who gives the NRDC money, shall we?
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Top Funders of NRDC |
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Funder |
Total Donated |
Comments |
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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 |
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William Bingham Foundation |
$1,995,000.00 |
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Homeland Foundation |
$1,733,000.00 |
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San Francisco Foundation |
$1,654,739.00 |
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund |
$1,377,510.00 |
Them again |
McKnight Foundation |
$1,365,500.00 |
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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation |
$1,310,000.00 |
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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation |
$1,310,000.00 |
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Bauman Family Foundation |
$1,226,000.00 |
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Nathan Cummings Foundation |
$1,220,000.00 |
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Educational Foundation of America |
$1,210,000.00 |
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Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund |
$1,205,000.00 |
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Mertz Gilmore Foundation |
$1,201,000.00 |
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Carnegie Corporation of New York |
$1,200,000.00 |
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Park Foundation |
$1,198,010.00 |
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New York Community Trust |
$1,186,821.00 |
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Overbrook Foundation |
$1,182,585.00 |
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Surdna Foundation |
$1,147,000.00 |
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Bullitt Foundation |
$1,122,675.00 |
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William & Flora Hewlett Foundation |
$1,075,000.00 |
Note also the participation with the Energy Foundation |
This is racketeering. Blame the government, but also hold accountable the people who control it.
This is what the Securities and Exchange Commission used to stop. Who can remember the last time they did something useful? Baby Bells?