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CO2 Is Green

Steven Mufson – New Groups Revive the Debate over Causes of Climate Change – Washington Post – 25/09/2009 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092404797.html
“Steward has joined forces with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources that lets other companies mine in return for royalties. Its revenues were $291 million in 2008. They have formed two groups — CO2 Is Green designated for advocacy and Plants Need CO2 for education – with about $1 million. Plants Need CO2 has applied for 501(c)(3) tax status, so that contributions would qualify as charitable donations, said Natural Resource Partners general counsel Wyatt L. Hogan, who also serves on the group’s board.”

Diane Farsetta – New Oil and Coal Fronts Greenwash Global Warming – PR Watch, 25/09/2009 – http://www.prwatch.org/node/8582
“Television ads from a new Montana-based group called CO2 Is Green claim: «There is no scientific evidence that CO2 [carbon dioxide] is a pollutant. In fact higher CO2 levels than we have today would help the Earth’s ecosystems.» The ads urge voters to contact their Senators and Representative, «and remind them CO2 is not pollution.» The ads are meant to stoke opposition to climate change legislation. Not surprisingly, the man behind the ads, the lobbying group CO2 Is Green and a related «educational» group called Plants Need CO2 is «a veteran oil industry executive.» H. Leighton Steward was a director at EOG Resources, which was previously named the Enron Oil and Gas Company, and is an honorary director of the American Petroleum Institute. «Now retired, [Steward] says he wants to ‘get the message out there’ that carbon dioxide, which the Supreme Court has ruled a pollutant and which most [sic] scientists regard as a dangerous greenhouse gas, ‘is a net benefit for the planet.'» Steward co-founded the new groups with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., the «chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources.».”

Ross Gelbspan – Carbon Lobby Campaign Targets Color-Blind Readers – Desmogblog, 15/07/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/carbon-lobby-campaign-targets-color-blind-readers
“A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn’t an environmental pollutant. The organization «CO2 is Green» funded a half-page advertisement in The Washington Post urging people to call their senators and seek a vote against «the president’s cap-and-trade bill that will increase your cost of living and not change the climate. «The bill is based on the false premise that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change,» the ad says. «Real, empirical evidence indicates it is not.”

Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13 : 978-0385535595 – 449 Págs.
“That fall, television ads began appearing in states like Montana, where the Democratic senator Max Baucus was already under attack from members of the Koch network on the health-care issue. «There is no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant. In fact higher CO2 levels than we have today would help the Earth’s ecosystems,» the ads said, urging viewers to tell Baucus not to vote for the cap-and-trade bill, which would «cost us jobs.» The sponsor for the ad was a group curiously called CO2 Is Green. Quietly funding it, according to Steven Mufson, the energy reporter for The Washington Post, was Corbin Robertson, owner of the country’s largest private cache of coal. Robertson’s fingerprints were detectable behind another anti-climate-change front group, too, the Coalition for Responsible Regulation.” (p. 218)