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Greenpeace USA Research Department – ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry – Greenpeace, 01/05/2007 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/binaries/exxon-secrets-analysis-of-fun
“IWF asserts that “Global warming’s a crock,” and referred to the Stern Report as “The Latest Global Warming Alarmism.” Another recent article “Higher Price of Gas Increases Potential for Bad Energy Policy,” advising that “consumers need to recognize that changes in prices play an important role in energy markets, encouraging people to conserve when supplies are short. Government price controls will stifle this important process and create the potential for gasoline shortages.”.”

John M. Olin Foundation – Wikipedia, 02/06/2008 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation
“Because the Foundation has dissolved, information is no longer available from the Foundation Directory. However, SourceWatch reported the following: In 2001, the Foundation expended $20,482,961 to fund right-wing think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Hudson Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). «The Foundation also gives large sums of money to promote conservative programs in the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities.»

Nancy Lofholm – Push to teach «other side» of global warming heats up in Colorado’s Mesa County – The Denver Post, 26/05/2010 – http://www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_15161879
“Balanced Education for Everyone was formed by the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, which heavily promotes the documentary «Not Evil Just Wrong» as the basis for classroom lesson plans and also as the «scientifically accurate» truth about global warming. The video was created as a counterpoint to Al Gore’s Oscar-winning global-warming documentary, «An Inconvenient Truth.» Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said she finds the «Not Evil Just Wrong» curriculum push «very troubling» because the majority of scientists around the world agree that global warming is accelerating because of the effect of human activities on top of a natural cycle of warming.”

Nancy Lofholm – Push to teach «other side» of global warming heats up in Colorado’s Mesa County – The Denver Post, 26/05/2010 – http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15161879?source=bb
“Pugliese’s efforts have made her the poster girl for the group Balanced Education for Everyone and have pinpointed Mesa County as a national test case for keeping the teaching of humans’ influence on global warming out of science classes. «It (global warming) is not a proven scientific theory. There is not evidence to support it,» Pugliese told the board, generating applause from about 40 Tea Party and other conservative group members who filled the room for the first school board petition battle over this issue in the country … the notion of putting an end to global-warming education has begun to gain traction. A parent in Las Vegas has started a petition campaign. Closer to home, parents in Franktown and Littleton have also complained on the movement’s website about the «liberal madness» in Colorado schools. Balanced Education for Everyone was formed by the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, which heavily promotes the documentary «Not Evil Just Wrong» as the basis for classroom lesson plans and also as the «scientifically accurate» truth about global warming. The video was created as a counterpoint to Al Gore’s Oscar-winning global-warming documentary, «An Inconvenient Truth.».”

Ross Gelbspan – Mad Hatter Throws a Tea Party for Koch and ExxonMobil – Desmogblog, 28/05/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/mad-hatter-throws-tea-party-koch-and-exxonmobil
“A group called Balanced Education for Everyone (BEE) is backing an effort to force the Mesa County, Colorado, school board to mandate school instruction of the «other side» of the so-called debate about global warming, in what may be a national test case on how global warming is taught. Attorney and Tea Party activist, Rose Pugliese — working with the support of Balanced Education for Everyone — presented the board with one petition demanding that global warming not be taught and, ironically, another demanding that political views be kept out of the classroom. At the meeting, Pugliese and her supporters said if warming is taught the «other side» should be too. BEE is a project of the Independent Women’s Forum, which, in turn, is an arm of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation — an industry front group that reportedly gets most of its funding from from oil companies Koch Industries and ExxonMobil. AFP organized last summer’s Astroturf Hot Air tour, in which oil company employees posed as average citizens opposed to climate legislation.”

Leo Hickman – Rightwing group seeks to strip climate change from US classrooms – 28/05/2010 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/may/28/rightwing-group-climate-change
“Pugliese, who is also a prominent member of a local Tea Party group called the Western Slope Conservative Alliance, was supported at the meeting by a local PR consultant called Laura Kindregan, who is the Colorado representative of a national group calling itself Balanced Education for Everyone. It was launched in April to assist «concerned citizens around the country in challenging public schools to provide balanced education on the issue of global warming». It is itself an umbrella organisation of the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative group whose notion of feminism is a tad different to most Guardian readers’ understanding of the term.”

Not Evil Just Wrong – Wikipedia, 16/09/2011 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Evil_Just_Wrong
“In 2010, the directors of Not Evil Just Wrong teams up with the Independent Women’s Forum to launch a Balanced Education for Everyone (B.E.E.), which promotes balanced education in public schools about climate science.[19] The program suggests that if An Inconvenient Truth is shown in classrooms, then Not Evil Just Wrong should also be shown to offer students a broader curriculum about the climate debate.[19] The directors also created a peer-reviewed educational guide to teach about climate change, in conjunction with offering the free dvd to classrooms.[19]”

Graham Readfearn – The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank – Desmogblog, 24/06/2014 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center
“The main trustee at Randolph is Heather Higgins, the president and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and the chairman of its sister organisationIndependent Women’s Forum. Higgins is the daughter of R. Randolph Richardson, a member of the family that sold Vick Chemical Company to Procter & Gamble for $1.2 billion.  Staff writers of both organisations regularly express scepticism about the science of human-caused climate change and cite Lomborg’s views approvingly. A recent article from IWF senior fellow Vicki Alger claimed “a majority of scientists believe that global warming is largely nature-made” — ignoring several studies that show the vast majority of research from scientists studying climate change believe exactly the opposite. IWF funders include the Charles R. Lambe Foundation, controlled by Charles Koch, and Donors Trust, a fund for conservative philanthropists that has pushed millions into organisations promoting climate science denial and fighting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions.”

“The only income for the CCC in its first year in the US came in the form of a $120,000 grant from the New York-based Randolph Foundation. The foundation, seeded by money from the Richardson family’s sale of the Vick Chemical Company in 1985, gave CCC another $50,000 in 2012. The main trustee at Randolph is Heather Higgins, the president and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice and the chairman of its sister organisation Independent Women’s Forum. Higgins is the daughter of R. Randolph Richardson, a member of the family that sold Vick Chemical Company to Procter & Gamble for $1.2 billion.  ”

Brendan Fischer – How SPN «Think Tanks» Will Spin ALEC’s 2016 Agenda – PR Watch, 30/09/2015 – http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/09/12945/state-policy-network-2015
“A major priority for ALEC and SPN in recent months has been pushing back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s «Clean Power Plan,» which is a set of rules limiting carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants. This week, SPN will hold two separate sessions attacking the Clean Power Plan rules, with presentations from groups like the Koch-backed Independent Women’s Forum and the coal industry front group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. SPN member the Beacon Hill Institute has been central to the anti-Clean Power Plan effort, generating studies purporting to show the costs of the EPA plan–but without actually analyzing the plan. In February, The Guardian revealed that the notorious PR flak Richard Berman (called «Dr. Evil» by 60 Minutes) was secretly funding the Beacon Hill Institute studies, which were released and promoted by SPN member think tanks. So far in 2015, Beacon Hill has released seven «studies» purporting to show the impact of the Clean Power Plan rules in seven states, in partnership with seven SPN member think tanks. As Media Matters has described, those include: Iowa: Public Interest Institute, February 2015 Louisiana: Pelican Institute for Public Policy, February 2015 New Mexico: The Rio Grande Foundation, January 2015 North Carolina: The Civitas Institute, January 2015 South Carolina: Palmetto Promise Institute (formerly Palmetto Policy Forum), February 2015 Virginia: Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, March 2015 Wisconsin: MacIver Institute for Public Policy, January 2015.”

Lisa Graves, Kim Haddow and Calvin Sloan – Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Voice use “independent” brand to push right-wing agenda to women voters – Exposed by CMD, 17/08/2016 – http://www.exposedbycmd.org/independentwomensforum
“However, a new investigation of the groups by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveals them to be anything but that. Joan Walsh in the Nation broke this storytoday along with other new details about these not-so independent women’s groups. CMD’s Reporters’ Guide exposes the groups’ leaders admitting to—and boasting about—their true role for what it is: finding ways to sell right-wing policies and candidates favored by their funders to reach independent women voters under the guise of neutrality.”