{"id":489317,"date":"2010-03-30T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22034"},"modified":"2010-03-30T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:07:58","slug":"the-alliance-for-energy-and-economic-growth-is-a-bunch-of-right-wing-pollutocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489317","title":{"rendered":"The Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth is a bunch of right-wing pollutocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourteen men representing the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG) are meeting<\/a> with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to negotiate the terms<\/a> of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation<\/a>.\u00a0 Brad Johnson has the background<\/a> of this remarkably non-diverse group.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Per Matt Yglesias\u2019s note that the \u201cmale-dominated nature<\/a> of Wall Street is a source of dysfunction,\u201d meet the AEEG:
\n<\/span>
\n\"Alliance
\nLeft to right, top to bottom: David N. Parker, Ed Hamberger Jr., Evan R. Gaddis, Rich Nolan, Jay Timmons, Marv Fertel, Erik Heilman, John S. Shaw, R. Bruce Josten, Thomas R. Kuhn, Mark Maslyn, Jack Gerard, James C. May, Dave McCurdy.
\nThese<\/p>\n

The AEEG is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-managed working group of the trade associations representing America\u2019s carbon-pollution industries<\/a>, founded in 2001. Five of these AEEG representatives sit on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Association Committee of 100<\/a>, helping shape the organization\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n

Five of the groups are suing to block the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s scientific finding<\/a> that greenhouse gases are harmful pollutants \u2014 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Portland Cement Association, and the American Farm Bureau Federation. The American Petroleum Institute ran an astroturf campaign<\/a> against the House climate legislation last year, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for a \u201cScopes monkey trial<\/a>\u201d on the science of climate change.<\/p>\n

The least conservative of the industry lobbyists are Dave McCurdy<\/a> of the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, a former New Democrat congressman from Oklahoma (and Wonk Room guest blogger), and former general Evan Gaddis<\/a> of the National Electric Manufacturers Association. Seven of the lobbyists were George W. Bush contributors<\/a>, and two others \u2014 Erik Heilman<\/a> and Rich Nolan<\/a> \u2014 were Republican staffers. The overall political contributions of these fourteen men is whoppingly Republican, either as a direct contribution or funneled through conservative industry political action committees. They\u2019ve donated $326,497 to Republican candidates compared to $100,346 to Democrats, more than a three-to-one ratio:<\/p>\n

\"Contributions<\/p>\n

The Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth representatives meeting with Sen. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Industry Representatives at Climate Negotiations<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Representative<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\nOrganization<\/th>\nPct\u00a0D<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Marv Fertel<\/td>\ndirector and CEO<\/td>\nNuclear Energy Institute<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evan Gaddis<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nNational Electrical Manufacturers Association<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jack Gerard<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nAmerican Petroleum Institute<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ed Hamberger<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nAmerican Association of Railroads<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erik Heilman<\/td>\nsenior director of government affairs<\/td>\nAmerican Forest & Paper Association<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruce Josten<\/td>\nexecutive vice president for government affairs<\/td>\nU.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tom Kuhn<\/td>\npresident<\/td>\nEdison Electric Institute<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Maslyn<\/td>\nexecutive director of public policy<\/td>\nAmerican Farm Bureau<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James C. May<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nAir Transport Association<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dave McCurdy<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nAlliance of Automobile Manufacturers<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rich Nolan<\/td>\nvice president of government affairs<\/td>\nNational Mining Association<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
David N. Parker<\/td>\npresident and CEO<\/td>\nAmerican Gas Association<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John S. Shaw<\/td>\nsenior vice president of government affairs<\/td>\nPortland Cement Association<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jay Timmons<\/td>\nexecutive vice president<\/td>\nNational Association of Manufacturers<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pct D: Percentage of political contributions to Democrats.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is a Wonkroom repost<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fourteen men representing the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth (AEEG) are meeting with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to negotiate the terms of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.\u00a0 Brad Johnson has the background of this remarkably non-diverse group. Per Matt Yglesias\u2019s note that the \u201cmale-dominated nature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}