Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

FUNDING

A large proportion of CFACT’s funding comes from corporations in the energy and automobile industries, as well as conservative foundations. Its financial backers include:

The Exxon Mobil Corporation , which has given $257,000 to the organization since 1998 In 2003, Exxon gave $25,000 specifically to support research on "Climate Change Issues" [http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf .

The Chevron Corporation : $60,500 between 1994 and 1998 {Link without Title} .

The DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund: $25,000 in 1997 {Link without Title} .

The U.S. Council on Energy Awareness, which is funded by nuclear power and uranium companies {Link without Title} .

The conservative Carthage Foundation ($200,000 in 2002) and '''Sarah Scaife Foundation''' ($75,000 in 2001), which are both controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife . The Sarah Scaife Foundation is financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune {Link without Title} .

PERSONNEL

David Rothbard, President. Rothbard received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairfield University He was a contributor to an American Petroleum Institute memo, made public by the New York Times in 1998, that outlined a strategy to invest millions of dollars to "maximize the impact of scientific views consistent with ours with Congress, the media and other key audiences." The memo stated: "Victory will be achieved when...recognition of uncertainty [about global warming becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom'" [http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html].

Craig Rucker, Executive Director. Rucker graduated from the State University of New York at Albany He coordinates the work of CFACT's college affiliates, the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow [http://www.freedom21.org/conf/2004/04speakers.html .

ACTIVITIES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

CFACT college chapters are frequently involved in efforts to criticize or to defund existing student environmental organizations For instance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), which are left-leaning environmental and consumer organizations, raise much of their money from student activity fees. CFACT college chapters work to eliminate this funding or to give conservative organizations an equal share [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_For_A_Constructive_Tomorrow .

The activities of campus CFACT chapters appear to have close ties to the goals of CFACT’s industry funders:

In Texas, student CFACT members put on a pro-Exxon Mobil protest {Link without Title} .

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, CFACT members ran a campaign to protect SUVs from the perceived threat of eco-terrorists {Link without Title} .

CFACT's Executive Director, Craig Rucker, organized students in an anti- Kyoto Protocol protest in Germany {Link without Title} .

In North Carolina, CFACT students criticized a student-run initiative to fund Renewable Energy projects {Link without Title} .

ARTICLES

Past articles appearing on CFACT's national and collegiate websites have included:

"Some surprisingly clean facts about SUV's," which alleges that Sports Utility Vehicles are cleaner and safer than most people believe {Link without Title} .

"Fishy Mercury Warning," which states that there is no evidence the FDA's Mercury rules will protect Americans {Link without Title} .

" Mad Cow is a Bovine Disease," which argues that "the notion that people can contract a human form of the disease by eating beef from infected cows is more bun than burger" {Link without Title} .

"Preaching the gospel of power conservation," warns that energy-efficient Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb s are "big and cumbersome" and that they create "a harsh white glare" {Link without Title} .

"Drilling past the hypocrisy on Alaskan oil," which supports drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge {Link without Title} .

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