Last Word from the Competitive Enterprise Institute

onDec 8, 2005 @ 09:32 PST

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.’s favorite industry-funded “environmental think tank,” offered up a definitive article on climate change in July of this year.

The CEI began by saying: “Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it.”

You can click here and read the entire, tortured, outdated 2,913-word argument about how that’s really okay – how facing the problem might cause economic dislocation among CEI‘s major funders – but we think we have excerpted the most important part of the paper in those opening 14 words.

By James Hoggan

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Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm

ByMatthew Green

onSep 21, 2026 @ 12:34 PDT

The acclaimed climate accountability journalist says bold steps are needed to reverse the insidious impact of decades of industry propaganda on the public square.

Series: Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation

Series: Advertising & PR Industry

Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’

ByGeoff Dembicki

onSep 21, 2026 @ 07:18 PDT

With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.