Steve Milloy

Steven J. Milloy

Credentials

Juris Doctorate, University of Baltimore.¹
Master of Laws (Securities regulation), Georgetown University Law Center.²
Master of Health Sciences (Biostatistics), Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.³
B.A., Natural Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.⁴

Background

Steve Milloy joined the Heartland Institute’s board of directors in 2020.⁵ He previously worked as director of external policy and strategy at Murray Energy Corp, which claims to be the largest privately-owned coal producer in the United States.⁶

Milloy held that position from October 2013 until May 2015 according to LinkedIn. Milloy is the publisher of the website JunkScience.com, a former columnist for Fox News,⁷ co-creator and manager of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a former adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the president of the business consulting firm Steven J. Milloy, Inc.⁸ Milloy is also a senior policy fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute.⁹

On his website, Steve “The Junkman” Milloy proclaims himself a pioneer fighting against “faulty scientific data used to advance special, and often hidden, agendas.”¹⁰

Milloy and Tobacco

Steve Milloy has been associated with the major American tobacco companies since at least 1997. In 1997, he took over as the executive director of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), a front group set up by Philip Morris in 1993 and run by the public relations firm APCO & Associates. The main objective of TASSC was to question the science showing detrimental effects of cigarette smoke. The idea was for TASSC to create an extensive grassroots campaign where it would be promoted as a legitimate scientific source.

The coalition created materials and reprinted news articles to distribute to TASSC audiences, found “appropriate scientists/spokespeople” to participate in and promote the coalition’s message, and established a nationwide media tour defaming “unsound science” on radio and television and in newspapers. According to PRWatch.org, Philip Morris budgeted $880,000 for TASSC in 1994.¹¹

When Steve Milloy took over as executive director of TASSC in March 1997, he cited TASSC-sponsored website Junkscience.com, of which he was also publisher, as a tool in promoting the coalition’s message. ¹²

Philip Morris quietly retired TASSC in 1998. However, according to Tim Lambert’s Deltoid blog and The New Republic, Steve Milloy was still under contract as a consultant with Philip Morris through 2005. In both 2000 and 2001 Milloy charged Philip Morris $92,500 in fees and expenses for his consulting work.¹³

Syngenta Funding

In February 2012, the Center for Media and Democracy, analyzing documents uncovered as part of a lawsuit against chemical giant Syngenta, found that the company’s PR department had spent millions of dollars to advance messaging about its weed-killer “atrazine.” The documents revealed Milloy was promised at least one cheque for $25,000 by Syngenta in 2008.¹⁴

The email thread shows a Syngenta representative offered to give Milloy talking points on atrazine. Milloy noted that, at the time, he was working through the National Center for Public Policy Research.¹⁵

CMD reported in 2016 that preliminary risk assessments by the EPA had found that routine use of atrazine was likely harming animals and our ecosystems.¹⁶

Syn Email Milloy Asking for Grants (Text)

Stance on Climate Change

In the 2006 article, “The Greenhouse Myth,” Steve Milloy stated that the “doubling of atmospheric CO2 from pre-Industrial Revolution days might increase global temperature from between 0.5 degrees Centigrade to 1.5 degrees Centigrade – that is, not much.” He went on to declare that anthropogenic climate change is not based on “actual temperature measurements and greenhouse physics – rather it comes from manmade computer models relying on myriad assumptions and guesswork.”¹⁷

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

As DeSmog previously reported, Milloy retweeted the following message on social media during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021:

Milloy also posted this on Jan. 7, 2021:

BBC News has fact checked the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory here, writing, “the suggestion that politicians planned the virus, or are using it to destroy capitalism is wholly without evidence. So too is the notion that the World Economic Forum has the authority to tell other countries what to do, or that it is coordinating a secret cabal of world leaders.”¹⁸ The conspiracy theory has also been accused of encouraging anti-semitic sentiments.¹⁹

Milloy also spoke on an OANN show about the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, suggesting that police “just let this happen so that they could set President Trump up for this impeachment.”²⁰

Kara McKinney: [00:02:49] “What do you think that the FBI should have done to help prevent some of this, the breaching that we saw at the Capitol? We know that there were some calls for increased law enforcement presence, but that was denied by D.C. officials. ” [00:03:01]

Steve Milloy: [00:03:06] “Yeah, well, I mean, somebody really dropped the ball here, and instead of rushing to impeach the President, they should be rushing to investigate why the FBI didn’t do anything. The FBI has hundreds of agents it could have deployed. The Capitol Police—they have thousands of people they could have deployed. There’s also the National Guard. I mean, why was none of this done? Where was D.C. police? It almost makes you wonder, like they just let this happen so that they could set President Trump up for this impeachment.” [00:03:30]

[00:03:30] “This is awful. This is terrible. This is much worse than anything President Trump said at that rally, which, by the way, he said you know do everything peacefully.” [00:03:42]

[00:05:20] “Yeah. You know, President Trump is really getting the bum’s rush here. You know, Democrats and weak kneed Republicans did this to Richard Nixon in 1974. They acted on this so-called smoking gun tape, which had nothing to do with Watergate, ironically. And President Trump is getting the same treatment here. And, you know, people laugh when you say Deep State. No, it’s real. There’s something going on here.” [00:05:44]

[00:05:44]“And they want to get you know, they want to get rid of President Trump so fast that no one has a chance to actually look into what happened.” [00:05:50]

Key Quotes

January 9, 2023

Milloy posted on X, formerly Twitter, in response to a New York Times article on clean energy, suggesting “Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible,” and “Modern ‘clean’ energy has been a disaster.”²¹

NYTimes airhead @ezraklein:

"Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."

Two points:

1. Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible.

2. Modern 'clean' energy has been a disaster. https://t.co/NczKWIrPwG
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 9, 2023

March 17, 2019

Responding to claims that a mother of one of the children suing the federal government for climate change inaction was herself an anti-pipeline protester, Milloy alleged that the parent was:

“a case in point of an activist using her child as a human shield behind which she advances her intellectually and morally bankrupt political agenda. Their science and economics is so bad that they gotta use kids.”²²

April 26, 2018

“I do have a bias,” Milloy told reporter Carolyn Kormann at The New Yorker. “I’m all for the coal industry, the fossil-fuel industry. Wealth is what makes people happy, not pristine air, which you’ll never get.”²³

April 24, 2018

Discussing Scott Pruitt‘s “secret science” initiative that would severely limit the data the EPA uses, Steve Milloy told E&E news that he also had a role to play:²⁴

“I look at it as one of my proudest achievements. The reason this is anywhere is because of Steve Milloy,” he said.

March 13, 2018

Milloy celebrated Trump’s appointment of Mike Pompeo as new Secretary of State on Twitter:²⁵

Mike Pompeo is a climate skeptic. WINNING! https://t.co/FmBHvChzrS

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 13, 2018

February 13, 2018

On Twitter, Milloy describes the termination of the EPA Climate Change Research Program under the new budget as “Winning”:²⁶

Winning… @realDonaldTrump‘s budget would terminate the EPA Climate Change Research Program.

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 13, 2018

December 29, 2017

In a statement to OneNewsNow, Milloy described efforts by U.S. Mayors to sign on to a climate pact to tackle climate change at a local level following President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, as a wasted effort:²⁷

“You could stop all greenhouse gas emissions from the United States today and keep them shut down until the year 2100 and it would hardly make any difference in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” Milloy said in his statement to OneNewsNow.

“So it’s not going to have any effect on climate. I’m not quite sure what they’re trying to accomplish. I just assume this is more virtue signaling/resistance activity going on.”²⁸

September 1, 2015

“Virtually every environmental policy I’ve seen since the early 1990s has been basically politics and not science.”²⁹

June, 2015

“I think it [the encyclical] is going to be a big mistake for him [Pope Francis]. I think he is going to come out with a document that is going to be ripped to shreds.”³⁰

Red Pope calls for ‘CULTURAL REVOLUTION.’ Been there, done that. pic.twitter.com/hpHYerA9PS

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 18, 2015

April 22, 2014

Speaking at The Heritage Foundation’s Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement event, Milloy, at 36:03 states:³¹

“Coal is ground-zero in the environmental wars, and it is the most important battle that we’re fighting today. The overarching eco-myth that I will debunk is the one about coal being a dirty form of energy that our country can do without. First, I am going to talk about the need for coal and then discuss the wanton and reckless smearing and elimination of it. The coal industry helps generate about 40% of the U.S.’ electricity. Coal makes the lowest cost and most reliable electricity. The coal industry, directly or indirectly, employs about 800,000 people, generates 50 billion dollars in labor income, and contributes about 100 billion dollars to GDP. Yet, these impressive statistics don’t somehow come close to doing justice to the benefits America, and the world, derive from the tremendous natural resource that is coal, of which we are blessed to have a several hundred-year supply.”³²

At 39:52 Milloy goes on to say:

“Of the many guises of the “War on Coal,” global warming is perhaps the most used excuse… Simple math shows that the Obama war on coal, for purposes of climate control, is futile. Even if U.S.’ CO2 emissions stopped today and were to be zero for the remainder of this century, atmospheric CO2 levels would only decrease by about 3%. There would be no measurable impact on global climate, at a cost of 25% of global GDP. We can debate the science of global warming to our heart’s content, and we should, but the reality is worldwide hydrocarbon use is increasing. By itself, China is adding the equivalent of the entire U.S. coal fleet between now and 2020, India is adding 71 gigawatts of coal power between now and 2018—almost as much as the Obama EPA has already shuttered. Obama’s unilateral actions are all based on “junk science” that will accomplish nothing except hurt our standard of living, devastate coal communities, raise electricity prices for all, and cause power outages.”³³

June 21, 2012

“There’s really only about 25 of us doing this. A core group of skeptics. It’s a ragtag bunch, very Continental Army. I’m happy to be a denier.”³⁴

May 26, 2011

“Yes, what logic […] brilliant. […] I don’t know anything … so rather than keeping my big fat mouth shut until I learn something, I’ll side with the likes of Al Gore, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, the Discovery Channel gunman, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Henry Waxman, Bobby Rush and every other whacked out, intellectually and morally bankrupt believer in global warming.”³⁵

February 1, 2006

“Our opposition to global warming alarmism is based on three points. First, we don’t believe the available scientific data indicate that human activity is measurably changing global climate – history shows that natural climate change can be far more significant than any slight change in climate that may have occurred over the last 200 years.

“Second, even if human activity is altering global climate to some extent, such climate change might actually be beneficial – historically, civilization has fared better in warmer climatic conditions as opposed to cooler climatic conditions.

“Third, even if humans are undesirably affecting global climate, the best path forward may be adaptation to that climate change rather than harming the global economy through the expenditure of hundreds of billion dollars under the questionable rationale that greenhouse gas regulation can act as some sort of global thermostat.”³⁶

“When the Clean Air Act was enacted in 1970, air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem. That is even more the case today. Few people realize this after 30 years of non-stop junk science-fueled alarmism from environmental activists.”³⁷

Key Deeds

February 9, 2022

Milloy wrote an article at The Washington Times criticizing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s America COMPETES, Act, short for America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength act as a “climate trap.” ³⁸

“COMPETES could essentially doom America to dependence on Communist China, our major geopolitical opponent, to satisfy the Paris Climate Accord obligations and the Green New Deal agenda,” Milloy claimed.³⁹

“Republicans should run away from COMPETES as fast and as far as possible. If they can’t bring themselves do that, they should jettison any provisions or general approval of anything climate, especially the Paris Climate Accord,” he concluded.⁴⁰

November 29, 2020

Milloy wrote an article at the Wall Street Journal titled “How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord,” where he warned that if Joe Biden were to bring back the US into the accord that “it’s possible it will take on the weight of law.”⁴¹

To prevent the accord “from taking on such undue power,” Milloy suggested, “Mr. Trump should submit it to the Senate, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should schedule a quick vote.” He added, “It would certainly be rejected—ratification requires a two-thirds vote—and it is unlikely any court could subsequently resurrect a legislatively tossed treaty.”⁴²

October 22, 2018

Milloy joined forces with Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Fred Palmer to create an activist shareholder group called Burn More Coal, established for the purpose of preventing the closure of coal-fired power plants. BMC’s motto includes the phrase, “Coal is Life.”⁴³

The group filed a shareholder proposal with Duke Energy demanding an economic justification for the planned decommissioning of some of Duke’s coal plants:

“What will be the actual benefit to anyone or anything of it? Global CO2 emissions are higher now than ever and increasing.”⁴⁴

The move came as Duke plans to retire 14 coal plants by 2020 to comply with federal and state environmental regulations and under pressure from low natural gas prices and increasing demand for renewable energy.⁴⁵

In an interview with The Daily Caller, Palmer said:

“There is a cabal in the utility industry that wants to decarbonize independent of federal policy. It’s as if Al Gore were running the utility industry.”⁴⁶

August 7, 2018

Milloy spoke at the Heartland Institute‘s “America First Energy Conference” (AFEC 2018) in New Orleans, Louisiana.⁴⁷

“The purpose of this event is to promote and expand energy freedom in the United States, as outlined in President Donald Trump’s bold America First Energy Plan, a proposal first released during the 2016 presidential campaign. The president’s plan marks a decisive change in direction from the Obama administration’s ‘war on fossil fuels’ and focus on the theory of catastrophic man-caused climate change,” the conference description reads.⁴⁸

Milloy moderated a session titled “Climate Lawsuits Against Energy Companies and the Government” and spoke on Panel 6, titled “Reforming the EPA: Lots of Progress, More to Do.”⁴⁹

April 30, 2018

Milloy wrote an article at USA Today downplaying recent controversies affecting EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt:⁵⁰

“President Trump should ignore calls to fire Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. As mountains are made of molehills and double standards are everywhere, regulatory reform accomplishments are vilified for partisan reasons,” Milloy wrote.⁵¹

While Milloy conceded that Pruitt “ made some avoidable but minor errors in judgment,” he countered that it was pale in comparison to Obama era EPA‘s “partisan and junk science-fueled war against the coal industry.” Milloy argued that “What Pruitt is really ‘guilty’ of is effectively executing Trump’s campaign promises and executive orders to rein in the rogue EPA.“⁵²

“So Scott Pruitt flew first class a few times and got a deal on a condo lease? Give me a break,” he concluded.⁵³

April 24, 2018

Speaking with E&E News, Milloy claimed that he had a key role to play in the “secret science” initiative unveiled by Scott Pruitt that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from using any studies that do not make the raw data public. Milloy wouldn’t speak about the EPA event, however said:⁵⁴

“If I was going to be there, I would be very excited. I look at it as one of my proudest achievements. The reason this is anywhere is because of Steve Milloy,” he said.⁵⁵

Pruitt introduced the initiative, which would still be subject to a 30-day comment period:⁵⁶

“The science that we use is going to be transparent, reproducible and able to be analyzed by those in the marketplace,” Pruitt said. “This is the right approach. Today is a red letter today. It’s a banner day. It’s an agency taking responsibility for how we do our work and respect the process to make sure we can enhance confidence in our decision making.”

Milloy also posed for a photo with Marc Morano while he was at the EPA HQ:

From yesterday’s science transparency event at EPA:

Climate skeptic barbarians @JunkScience and @ClimateDepot.

Not just at the EPA‘s gate, but inside the administrator’s office eating the greens’ lunch. pic.twitter.com/2QkYQo6iOk

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 25, 2018

March 5, 2018

Milloy posed for a photo with Chris Horner, Marc Morano, and Steve Goddard/Tony Heller at what appeared to be an event promoting Morano’s new book,The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, by Regnery Publishing. Horner had written the first version of the book in 2007.⁵⁷

Heller described them as the “The Washington DC global warming scam demolition team.” He also tweeted the image:⁵⁸

The front four of Team Climate Denier pic.twitter.com/cN7ZwJ3Cxs

— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) March 5, 2018

February 4, 2018

In January 2018, more than 200 scientists endorsed an open letter calling on the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to remove climate change denier Rebekah Mercer from its board and to “end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation.” The New York Times reported that those among the AMNH letter calling for Mercer to step down were Michael E. Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, and Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.⁵⁹

Milloy was among a group of climate change deniers who responded with their own open letter, calling for the AMNH “not to cave in to this pressure.” The letter was signed by numerous individuals with ties to groups funded by the Mercer Family Foundation such as Will Happer of the CO2 CoalitionRichard Lindzen, a fellow at the Cato InstituteCraig Idso, the chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. There are a number of signatories affiliated with the Heartland Institute, which has received over $5.78 million from the Mercer Family Foundation since 2008.⁶⁰

The letter reads:⁶¹

“The Earth has supported abundant life many times in the geological past when there were much higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is quite likely that future generations will benefit from the enrichment of Earth’s atmosphere with more carbon dioxide.

“Make no mistake, the agitators are not defending science from quackery — quite the contrary!”

February 3, 2018

As reported at ThinkProgress, Steve Milloy went to twitter to defend Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump. He first tweeted, ” ‘There is no greater Left-wing invented slur than ‘McCarthyism.’” Milloy’s defense came after FBI director James Comey defended the FBI‘s pushback agains the Nunes memo.⁶²

All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would. But take heart: American history shows that, in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy.

— James Comey (@Comey) February 1, 2018

Milloy’s tweets below:

There is no greater Left-wing invented slur than ‘McCarthyism.’

Joe McCarthy was right (read the Stan Evans expose, which @AnnCoulter called the greatest book since The Bible).

‘McCarthyism’ is actually what the Left did to him. Now the intended victim is @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/cQ07uLqzi9

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 1, 2018

Democrat dirty tricks were able to drive the heroic Joe McCarthy to an early grave.

Democrat dirty tricks forced Nixon to resign.

But with @realDonaldTrump, Democrat dirty tricks will backfire and destroy the Democrat party (or what’s left of it after Obama).

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 4, 2018

November 9, 2017

Milloy was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s “America First Energy Conference” at the Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas. Milloy either spoke on or moderated four sessions:⁶³

See PDF or PowerPoint of the presentation.

The event description read as follows:⁶⁴

“At the America First Energy Conference, we plan to examine—one year and one day after Trump’s shocking Election Day victory—the following:

“Where does Trump’s America First Energy Plan stand?

“How much progress has been made in implementing it, and what remains to be done?

“What scientific and economic evidence is there that the plan is putting the nation on the right path for economic growth, environmental protection, or both?”⁶⁵

According to CNBC, Milloy laid out an eight-point plan to reform the EPA while at the conference, with his suggestions including requiring Congressional approval and judicial review on all major EPA regulations.⁶⁶

In a fundraising letter obtained by DeSmog, Fred Palmer had promoted the event as having the goal to “review the scientific and economic evidence that exposes the fraud inherent in the Obama-era regulation regime” while discussing “the overwhelming benefits of fossil fuels to us all.”⁶⁷

Many of the other speakers have regularly spoken at the Heartland Institute’s past ICCCs. Notable speakers listed so far include Joe Bast, Fred Palmer, Roger Bezdek, H. Sterling Burnett, Hal Doiron, Paul Driessen, John Dale Dunn, Myron Ebell, Heartland’s new President Tim Huelskamp, Craig Idso, David Legates, Jay Lehr, Anthony Lupo, Ross McKitrick, Steve Milloy, Todd Myers, John Nothdurt, David Schnare, and numerous others.⁶⁸

Scott Pruitt also addressed the conference in a recorded video, personally thanking Heartland for “what you’re doing to advance energy” and “for what you’re doing to advance natural resources.⁶⁹

The Climate Investigations Center put up a parody of the America First Energy conference website, complete with profiles on the individual speakers and highlighting their corporate funding and ties to groups such as the Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC).⁷⁰

May 25, 2017

The Daily Signal reported that Steve Milloy opposed an investor-led proposal that would cause ExxonMobil to measure how GHG-reduction regulations would affect the company’s assets.⁷¹

“It’s kind of ironic that you have a president who wants to roll back regulations against oil producers, yet companies like Exxon want more rules to be heaped on them,” said Milloy.⁷²

The Signal noted that Milloy, an Exxon shareholder, would speak in opposition to the measure at Exxon’s upcoming meeting. In April, E&E News reported Milloy had submitted a resolution through the Free Enterprise Action Fund requesting that Exxon block stockholders from filing resolutions.⁷³

March 23 – 24, 2017

Milloy spoke on two panels at the Heartland Institute‘s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC12).⁷⁴

Panel 4A: Human Health Effects

Panel 6: Resetting Climate Policy

February 23, 2017

Steve Milloy was a speaker on a CPAC 2017 panel sponsored by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) titled “Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda – and What President Trump Plans To Do About It,” according to the CPAC agenda (PDF).⁷⁵

E&E News reported that the panel included fellow climate change deniers Tony Heller (AKA Steven Goddard) and James Delingpole. According to E&E News, Milloy said that he hoped that the Trump administration would completely end scientific research at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).⁷⁶

Video of the event was posted on the the Energy & Environment Legal Institute’s (E&E Legal) Facebook page:⁷⁷

Milloy accused the EPA of doing “the science it wants” and said it “can’t be responsible for producing science and then regulating” based on that science. He added that being selected by Trump to the EPA transition team was “a dream come true after fighting EPA for 25 years.”⁷⁸

Under the Trump administration, Milloy said, global warming deniers would be able to participate in debates to kill key climate polices from the Obama administration including the endangerment finding;⁷⁹

“The endangerment finding needs to be repealed,” he said. “If it’s not, then President Trump is going to be forced to issue his own climate policy.”⁸⁰

New Republic reported that Milloy also denied that air pollution was a problem. “My particular interest is air pollution,” Milloy said. “These people validate and rubber-stamp the EPA’s conclusion that air pollution kills people.”⁸¹

December 12, 2016

Steve Milloy was an attendee at a private meeting also attended by Trump’s EPA Transition team lead Myron Ebell on Capitol Hill. E&E News reported that the event was not open to the public or to the press and Ebell refused to give any details. The event was hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and held in the hearing room of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. The EPW committee is chaired by Senator James Inhofe who, like Trump, has described human-caused climate change as a hoax.⁸²

DeSmog reported that the event featured the “Who’s Who of Climate Science Deniers.” Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts, who spoke at the event, also wrote that the meeting was a gathering of the Cooler Heads Coalition and listed some of the participants on Facebook:⁸³ ⁸⁴

Names mentioned above included:

DeSmog also noted that three of the attendees—Myron Ebell, Randy Randol, and Steve Milloy—had all been part of the Global Climate Science Communications Team in the late 1990s, a group organized by the American Petroleum Institute. According to an early memo, the group said “victory will be achieved when […] Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’.”⁸⁵

May 18, 2016

Steve Milloy was a signatory to a full page color advertisement in The New York Times titled “Abuse of Power” (PDF) sponsored by The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).⁸⁶ The ad serves as an open letter from 43 signatories including organizations and individuals in response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, and the coalition of Attorneys General investigating groups denying man-made climate change.⁸⁷

“Attempts to intimidate CEI and our allies and silence our policy research are unconstitutional,” said CEI president Kent Lassman. “The First Amendment protects us and everyone has a duty to respect it – even state attorneys general. CEI will continue to fight for all Americans to support the causes in which they believe.”⁸⁸

The Competitive Enterprise Institute received a subpoena from AG Walker on April 7, 2016. On April 20, CEI filed an objection to the subpoena calling it “offensive,” “un-American,” and “unlawful,” and are contending that AG Walker is “violating CEI’s First Amendment rights.”⁸⁹

The “freedom of speech” argument was echoed by ExxonMobil’s legal team, as well as numerous other conservative groups including the Pacific Legal Foundation, and Heritage Foundation and the recently-formed Free Speech in Science Project, a group created by the same lawyers who defended the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the past.⁹⁰

The CEI letter lists the following signatories:

Kent Lassman — President & CEO, Competitive Enterprise Institute
C. Boyden Gray — Former White House Counsel
Andrew C. McCarthy — Former Chief Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
Michael B. Mukasey — U.S. Attorney General, 2007-2009; U.S. District Judge, 1988-2006
Ross McKitrick — Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
Ronald D. Rotunda — Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University
Richard S. Lindzen — Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, MIT
William Happer — Emeritus Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Jim DeMint — President, The Heritage Foundation
James H. Amos, Jr. — President & CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis
John A. Baden — Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment
Lisa B. Nelson — CEO, American Legislative Exchange Council
Paul Driessen — Author & Energy Policy Analyst
Thomas J. Pyle — President, Institute for Energy Research
Steven J. Allen — Vice President & Chief Investigative Officer, Capital Research Center
David Ridenour — President, National Center for Public Policy Research
Steven J. Milloy — Publisher, JunkScience.com
Brooke Rollins — President & CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Paul Gessing — President, Rio Grande Foundation
Ron Arnold — Researcher & Author
William Perry Pendley — President, Mountain States Legal Foundation
Adam Brandon — President & CEO, FreedomWorks
Hank Campbell — President, American Council on Science and Health
Craig Rucker — Executive Director, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Tom McCabe — CEO, Freedom Foundation
Richard B. Belzer — Economist
Heather R. Higgins — President & CEO, Independent Women’s Voice
Joseph G. Lehman — President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Sabrina Schaeffer — Executive Director, Independent Women’s Forum
Joseph Bast — President, The Heartland Institute
John C. Eastman — Founding Director, The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
Robert Alt — President & CEO, The Buckeye Institute
Michael Pack — President & CEO, The Claremont Institute
Josh Blackman — Assistant Professor, South Texas College of Law
Lynn Taylor — President, Tertium Quids
David Rothbard — President, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Tracie Sharp — President & CEO, State Policy Network
Kenneth Haapala — President, Science and Environmental Policy Project
Tim Phillips — President, Americans for Prosperity
Myron Ebell — Director of the Center for Energy & Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
George Landrith — President, Frontiers of Freedom
John Tillman — CEO, Illinois Policy Institute
Craig D. Idso — Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

September 1, 2015

Alex Epstein hosted Steve Milloy on the Center for Industrial Progress’s podcast titled “Power Hour” in an episode titled “Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions.”⁹¹

Milloy says that “Virtually every environmental policy I’ve seen since the early 1990s has been basically politics and not science,” and discusses his believe that the EPA‘s attempts to clean the air are unnecessary, especially with regards to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) produced largely by automobiles and coal-fired power plants.⁹²

On the program (at 48:00) Milloy also admits that he “was in the coal industry.” He goes on to claim that “no air pollution in the world comes anywhere close to smoking a cigarette. Even in China, where you breathe the worst air all day, that’s equivalent to one or two cigarettes.” He continues that “we know what the risks are from smoking.” These statements are interesting given his long-standing support of the tobacco industry.⁹³

March 2015

Steve Milloy is one of several climate change skeptics cc’d on an email from S. Fred Singer in hopes of countering the documentary film “Merchants of Doubt,” which exposes the network of climate change skeptics and deniers trying to delay legislative action on climate change.

The October, 2014 email was leaked to journalists before the documentary was released. “Can I sue for damages?” Singer asked in the email. “Can we get an injunction against the documentary?”

InsideClimate News reports in their article “Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists,” how “Many of those copied on the email thread, such as Singer and communications specialist Steven Milloy, have financial ties to the tobacco, chemical, and oil and gas industries and have worked to defend them since the 1990s.”⁹⁴

InsideClimate News also documented all those who were cc’d on the email, including the following skeptics and groups:

Ron Arnold
Timothy Ball
Joseph “Joe” Bast
Joe Bastardi
Michael Bastasch
William Briggs
Russell Cook
Judith Curry
Joe D’Aleo
James Delingpole
David Paul Driessen
James Enstrom
Steve Goddard
Pierre Gosselin
Greenie Watch
William Happer
Jim Lakely
Patrick J. Michaels
Steven J. Milloy
Christopher Monckton
Marc Morano
Joanne Nova
Roger Pielke Sr. (Or Roger Pielke Jr. – Unclear in Email)
Thomas P. Sheahen
S. Fred Singer
Wei-Hock (Willie) Soon
Roy Spencer
James Taylor
Anthony Watts

DeSmogBlog covered the emails here: “Merchants of Doubt Film Debuts, Textbook Denial Attack Campaign Led By Fred Singer Ensues”⁹⁵ and DeSmog also archived a full copy of the Singer email thread (PDF).⁹⁶

April 22, 2014

Milloy was a speaker at The Heritage Foundation’s “Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement” event.⁹⁷

See the video footage here:

March 6, 2014

At the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, Milloy was a speaker on a panel alongside other mainstays of the climate denial movement, including the Heartland Institute’s Joe Bast, CFACT’s Marc Morano, CEI’s Marlo Lewis and Frontiers of Freedom president George Landrith. Milloy’s affiliation is listed as Murray Energy.⁹⁸

October 31, 2013

Milloy attended a White House meeting at the Federal Department of Labor on behalf of Murray Energy Corp alongside other coal industry personnel and lobbyists to discuss proposed rule changes by the Mine Safety and Health Administration aimed at reducing miners’ exposure to coal dust.

The meeting was to discuss proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis – also known as black lung disease – and other diseases.

In a follow-up letter, Murray Energy Corporation Corporate Safety Director Pat Brady claimed the proposals, which also included the use of continuous personal dust monitors, were unworkable and would put jobs and coal production in “substantial jeopardy.”⁹⁹

October 15, 2013

Milloy joined Murray Energy Corp, the largest privately-owned coal producer in the United States, as director of external policy and strategy. As of at least March 2014, the position went undeclared on Milloy’s biography on his JunkScience.com website.¹⁰⁰ ¹⁰¹

December 2012

Milloy joined the American Tradition Institute (now renamed the Energy and Environment Legal Institute) as a senior policy fellow. The ATI and E&E Legal has launched a series of Freedom of Information requests to obtain records and emails from climate scientists and environmental regulators.¹⁰² ¹⁰³

January 27, 2012

Milloy will appear in the movie An Inconsistent Truth, hosted by radio talk show host Phil Valentine and directed by Shayne Edwards. The movie suggests that “everything you’ve been told about global warming is a lie,” and appears focused on discrediting Al Gore.

Skeptics who appear in the film include John Christy, James Inhofe, Fred Singer, and Roy Spencer.¹⁰⁴

September 2009

Milloy was criticized for his “Carbon Criminal” campaign that had displayed members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership who had campaigned for cap and trade in congress on “Wanted’ posters.¹⁰⁵

March 2008

Milloy was a speaker at the Heartland Institute‘s 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1.)¹⁰⁶

His speech, titled “How to Stop Climate Change Legislation in the U.S.” can be viewed below.

November 8, 2007

DemandDebate.com conducted a “survey of IPCC Climate Experts” (PDF). According to the website, “The survey results indicate that when asked routine questions about the climatic role of manmade CO2, the IPCC scientists surveyed responded for the most part with the Pavlovian manmade-CO2-is-bad view seemingly demanded of them by the IPCC. But when you ask questions that are off the usual script, the supposed consensus seems to readily fall apart.”¹⁰⁷

Scholars & Rogues investigated the survey and found that the presentation of the survey data was included “obvious bias,” and gave readers the “correct” interpretation of the data, which suggested that the survey may not have been as even and balanced as claimed. They also looked at individual questions presented in the survey, and found that some were “specifically designed to produce results that can be spun by DemandDebate.com and Mr. Milloy for they own political ends.”¹⁰⁸

October 2007

Milloy’s project DemandDebate.com produces a video juxtaposing scenes from the Al Gore film “An Inconvenient Truth” with interviews with climate science sceptics, mostly taken from the film “The Global Warming Swindle.”

In a press release promoting the video, Milloy’s “experts” say “there is no evidence carbon dioxide drives global temperature change.”¹⁰⁹

The website project, which appeared to have only been active for a year or so with very little content, claimed its mission was “educating and empowering students and parents to eliminate bias in environmental education.”¹¹⁰

The DemandDebate website also sold t-shirts with the slogan “I’m more worried about the intellectual climate” and offered resource kits to parents and teachers, which appeared to consist of copies of documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, a film about the “dark side of environmentalism” and a book called “The Sky’s Not Falling: Why It’s OK To Chill about Global Warming” written by Holly Fretwell.¹¹¹

July 7, 2007

Milloy engineered what he called the “’Live Earth’ Invasion” and “air raid” where he sponsored a group of college students to attend the Live Earth concert and distribute DemandDebate.com’s message.¹¹²

This consisted of distributing DebandDebate.com beach balls, and sending an airplane with the banner “Don’t Believe Al Gore. DemandDebate.com” that flew over the event just as Al Gore walked on stage. See their video here.¹¹³

February 2006

On behalf of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, Milloy drafted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the first climate skeptic shareholder resolution over the challenge of the General Electric Co.

The Free Enterprise Action Fund had called on GE to stop advocating global warming regulation:

“’We’re not sure GE‘s management performed the necessary due diligence before embracing the global warming hypothesis,’ said Milloy. ‘We asked management for its global warming assessment but management never responded to our request. We hope shareholders will take advantage of our resolution and send GE CEO Jeff Immelt the message that company policy on global warming must be supported by factual analysis, not executive bias.’”¹¹⁴

The resolution didn’t pass at the shareholder meeting, but had enough votes for GE to include it on the ballot for the following year. Milloy also defended the global warming resolution in 2007¹¹⁵and 2008.¹¹⁶

October 1999

Milloy bought up the web domain http://www.cop5.org in advance of a United Nations climate meeting in Bonn, also known as COP5, and redirects the address to his JunkScience.com website.

April 1998

Representatives from the American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Exxon Corporation and The Southern Company join with a number of conservative think tank operatives to form the Global Climate Science Communications Team. Steve Milloy is a member of the team, representing The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.

In documents unearthed by Greenpeace, the GCSCT group devises a communications plan, estimated to cost at least $2 million, which aimed to make climate change a “non-issue” by reaching out to media and the public.

The 1998 API memo noted the “current reality” the industry faced:

Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue, meaning that the Kyoto proposal is defeated and there are no further initiatives to thwart the threat of climate change, there may be no moment when we can declare victory for our efforts.

February 16, 1996

Milloy registered JunkScience.com. According to PR Watch, Milloy then began calling himself “the Junkman,” and “he offered daily attacks on environmentalists, public health and food safety regulators, anti-nuclear and animal rights activists, and a wide range of other targets that he accused of using unsound science to advance various political agendas.”¹¹⁷

The JunkScience.com describes “Junk Science” as “faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special interests and hidden agendas.” The website features a prominent picture of Michael Mann with the header “Hide the Decline” and “Mann-Made Global Warming.”¹¹⁸

Affiliations

@JunkScience on Twitter.

Publications

Milloy has published three of his five books through the Cato Institute:

Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against Health Scares and Scams, Cato Institute, 2001.
Silencing Science, Cato Institute, 1999, (with Michael Gough).
Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research, Cato Institute, 1996

His other books are titled Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them (Regnery Publishing, 2009) and Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Piece of the Superfund Puzzle which was published by the National Environmental Policy Institute in 1995.

Milloy has not published any articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Other Resources

“Steven J. Milloy,” SourceWatch profile.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Steven Milloy.
Brian Agliss. “We Berate, You Deride – A closer look at the background of Steven J. Milloy, executive director of DemandDebate.com,” Scholars & Rogues, November 27, 2007.
Brian Angliss. “We Berate, You Deride – A look at Steven J. Milloy’s current affiliates and backers,” Scholars & Rogues, November 28, 2007.
“Steven Milloy,” Wikipedia entry.

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Steve Milloy. “Pickens Hops Aboard the Public Health Bandwagon,” Fox News, December 11, 2008. Archived February 1, 2011.
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Lisa Graves. “Is the EPA Being Pressured on Atrazine? New Findings of Environmental Concerns about Syngenta’s Crop Chemical Removed from EPA Site,” Exposed by CMD, May 11, 2016.
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Steven Milloy. “The Greenhouse Myth,” Fox News, April 20, 2006. Archived November 6, 2011. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/zxRAD
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Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael. “The coronavirus pandemic ‘Great Reset’ theory and a false vaccine claim debunked,” BBC News, November 22, 2020. Archived February 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/oVijc
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“The Battle Over Climate Science,” Pop Sci, June 21, 2012.
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Steve Milloy. “Chris Christie: New Jersy’s Al Gore,” JunkScience.com, May 26, 2011.
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“GE Loses Bid to Block Global Warming Shareholder Resolution; Mutual Fund Calls On GE to Stop Advocating Global Warming Regulation,” PR Newswire, February 1, 2006. Archived August 13, 2014.
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“Series 1: Q and A With Steve Milloy,” The Cato Institute. Archived February 1, 2006. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/BzEFP
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2020. Archived December 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/j1FKb
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Steve Milloy. “How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2020. Archived December 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/j1FKb
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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Steve Horn. “Exxon’s Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims,” DeSmog, May 10, 2016.
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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“Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Heritage Foundation,” April 22, 2014.
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Brendan DeMelle. “Climate Denier Steve Milloy Now Director at Coal Giant Murray Energy, On CPAC Global Warming Panel Today,” DeSmog, March 6, 2014.
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“Re: Summary of Murray Energy Corporation’s Objections to MSHA’s Proposed Rules on “Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, ” Murray Energy Corporation, November 19, 2013. Documents via Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House.
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“Previous FOIAs,” E&E Legal. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yRY4I
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Steve Milloy. “Must-see Cinema: An Inconsistent Truth,” JunkScience.com, January 12, 2012. Archived September 22, 2020.
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“WANTED: ‘CARBON CRIMINALSUSCAP CEOs Who Betray America by Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade” (Media Release), JunkScience.com. September 15, 2009.
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“Re: Annual Report,” The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, January 7, 1998. Retrieved from Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, Bates #2065254885/4890.
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United States Senate Lobby Filing Disclosure Program, listing Milloy as a lobbyist for the EOP Group from 1998-2000. Archived January 23, 2005.
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Tim Lambert. “The Big Shill,” Deltoid, January 27, 2006. Archived February 12, 2010.
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“Steve Milloy,” Tech Central Station. Archived November 5, 2003.
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“BURN MORE COAL co-founder one of a ‘small but influential set’ Trump has been listening to,” Burn More Coal, December 2, 2018.Archived December 3, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/2OcIU
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“Steve Milloy,” LinkedIn. Accessed December 4, 2018. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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“Steven Milloy,” The Heartland Institute. Archived September 21, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yv2Sc
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“Steve Milloy,” LinkedIn. Accessed December 4, 2018. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Steve Milloy. “Pickens Hops Aboard the Public Health Bandwagon,” Fox News, December 11, 2008. Archived February 1, 2011.
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“Steven J. Milloy,” JunkScienceArchive.com. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/EKYiN
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“Fellows & Advisors,” Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/XSMXY
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“What is junk science?“ JunkScience.com. Archived November 21, 2011. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/U2jqj
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Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. “How Big Tobacco Helped Create ‘the Junkman’” (PDF), PR Watch, Third Quarter 2000, Volume 7, No. 3. Archived July 25, 2015.
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“Re: Annual Report,” The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, January 7, 1998. Retrieved from Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, Bates #2065254885/4890.
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Tim Lambert. “The Big Shill,” Deltoid, January 27, 2006. Archived February 12, 2010.
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Sara Jerving. “Syngenta’s Paid Third Party Pundits Spin the ‘News’ on Atrazine,” PR Watch, February 7, 2012. Archived February 8, 2020. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/wip/VXePL
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Sara Jerving. “Syngenta’s Paid Third Party Pundits Spin the ‘News’ on Atrazine,” PR Watch, February 7, 2012. Archived February 8, 2020. Archive.ph URL: https://archive.ph/wip/VXePL
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Lisa Graves. “Is the EPA Being Pressured on Atrazine? New Findings of Environmental Concerns about Syngenta’s Crop Chemical Removed from EPA Site,” Exposed by CMD, May 11, 2016.
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Steven Milloy. “The Greenhouse Myth,” Fox News, April 20, 2006. Archived November 6, 2011. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/zxRAD
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Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael. “The coronavirus pandemic ‘Great Reset’ theory and a false vaccine claim debunked,” BBC News, November 22, 2020. Archived February 11, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/oVijc
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“‘The Great Reset’ Conspiracy Flourishes Amid Continued Pandemic,” ADL, December 29, 2020. Archived January 31, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/groid
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“The FBI knew the Capitol was going to be beset by troublemakers before the events of January 6, but failed to take action to prevent it. …” Facebook post by Steve Milloy, January 13. Archived. mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“NYTimes airhead @ezraklein[…],” Twitter.com. Post by user @JunkScience, January 9, 2023.
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Chris White. “Eco-Activist’s Sordid Criminal History Sheds Light On Parents’ Role In Children’s Climate Crusade,” The Daily Caller, March 17, 2019. Archived March 19, 2019. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/8PBDR
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Carolyn Kormann. “Scott Pruitt’s Crusade Against “Secret Science” Could Be Disastrous for Public Health,” The New Yorker, April 26, 2018. Archived July 2, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/s0wvM
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“Pruitt to unveil ‘secret science’ effort today — sources,” E&E News, April 24, 2018. Archived April 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/6eQLq
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“Mike Pompeo is a climate skeptic. WINNING!” Twitter post by user @JunkScience, March 13, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“Winning… @realDonaldTrump’s budget would terminate the EPA Climate Change Research Program,” Twitter post by user @JunkScience, February 13, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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“’Meaningless symbolism’ cheaper at the local level,” OneNewsNow, December 29, 2017. Archived January 4, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9KGMo
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“’Meaningless symbolism’ cheaper at the local level,” OneNewsNow, December 29, 2017. Archived January 4, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9KGMo
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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Suzanne Goldenberg. “Republicans’ leading climate denier tells the pope to butt out of climate debate,” The Guardian, June 11, 2015.
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“Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Heritage Foundation,” April 22, 2014.
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“Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Heritage Foundation,” April 22, 2014.
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“Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Heritage Foundation,” April 22, 2014.
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“The Battle Over Climate Science,” Pop Sci, June 21, 2012.
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Steve Milloy. “Chris Christie: New Jersy’s Al Gore,” JunkScience.com, May 26, 2011.
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“GE Loses Bid to Block Global Warming Shareholder Resolution; Mutual Fund Calls On GE to Stop Advocating Global Warming Regulation,” PR Newswire, February 1, 2006. Archived August 13, 2014.
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“Series 1: Q and A With Steve Milloy,” The Cato Institute. Archived February 1, 2006. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/BzEFP
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “America COMPETES Act: Nancy Pelosi’s climate trap,” The Washington Times, February 9, 2022. Archived November 7, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/dIzFE
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Steve Milloy. “How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2020. Archived December 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/j1FKb
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Steve Milloy. “How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2020. Archived December 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/j1FKb
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Michael Bastasch. “Utility Shareholders Fight To Keep Us Coal Fleet From Disappearing,” The Daily Caller, November 13, 2018. Archived November 14, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/dDzlq
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Michael Bastasch. “Utility Shareholders Fight To Keep Us Coal Fleet From Disappearing,” The Daily Caller, November 13, 2018. Archived November 14, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/dDzlq
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Michael Bastasch. “Utility Shareholders Fight To Keep Us Coal Fleet From Disappearing,” The Daily Caller, November 13, 2018. Archived November 14, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/dDzlq
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Michael Bastasch. “Utility Shareholders Fight To Keep Us Coal Fleet From Disappearing,” The Daily Caller, November 13, 2018. Archived November 14, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/dDzlq
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“Speakers,” America First Energy Conference 2018. Archived August 1, 2018. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/mwtga
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“About,” America First Energy Conference 2018. Archived July 23, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.fo/E4Gnt
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“STEVE MILLOY, M.H.S., J.D.,” America First Energy Conference 2018. Archived August 1, 2018. Archive URL: https://archive.fo/UY8tx
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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Steve Milloy. “Scott Pruitt should stay at EPA,” USA Today, April 30, 2018. Archived May 7, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wCfdY
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“Pruitt to unveil ‘secret science’ effort today — sources,” E&E News, April 24, 2018. Archived April 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/6eQLq
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“Pruitt to unveil ‘secret science’ effort today — sources,” E&E News, April 24, 2018. Archived April 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/6eQLq
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“Pruitt to unveil ‘secret science’ effort today — sources,” E&E News, April 24, 2018. Archived April 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/6eQLq
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“Hot Off The Press,” The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, March 7, 2018. Archived March 10, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rocSl
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“Hot Off The Press,” The Deplorable Climate Science Blog, March 7, 2018. Archived March 10, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rocSl
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Robin Pogrebin and Somini Sengupta. “A Science Denier at the Natural History Museum? Scientists Rebel,” The New York Times, January 25, 2018. Archived February 13, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tAIv4
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Graham Readfearn. “Climate Science Deniers Defend New York’s American Museum of Natural History From Calls to Drop Trustee Rebekah Mercer,” DeSmog, February 6, 2018.
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mnh18-feb4-petitionletter (PDF – Untitled). Retrieved from Watts Up With That.
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Joe Romm. “Trump EPA transition adviser defends ‘heroic Joe McCarthy’,” ThinkProgress, February 4, 2018. Archived February 8, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lEfE2
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“STEVE MILLOY,” America First Energy Conference. Archived November 21, 2017. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/2hsTU
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“About,” America First Energy. Archived October 11, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8bTTJ
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“About,” America First Energy. Archived October 11, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8bTTJ
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“Climate skeptics and coal boosters gather to cheer Trump’s energy agenda — and hold his feet to the fire” CNBC, November 16, 2017. Archived November 18, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/w2Dwv
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October 2017 Fundraising letter by Fred Palmer. On file at DeSmog.
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“SPEAKERS,” America First Energy. Archived October 10, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/OJWeX
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“Scott Pruitt,” America First Energy Conference. Archived November 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/X4F6m
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“America First Energy Conference Stacked with Climate Change Deniers,” Climate Investigations Center, November 6, 2017. Archived November 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mISrd
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Chris White. “Major Exxon Investor Warns Shareholders Not to Give In to Global Warming Hysteria,” The Daily Signal, May 25, 2017. Archived May 25, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/cbSla
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Chris White. “Major Exxon Investor Warns Shareholders Not to Give In to Global Warming Hysteria,” The Daily Signal, May 25, 2017. Archived May 25, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/cbSla
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“Dear Mr. Goldberg:” (PDF), United States SEC, March 13, 2017. Retrieved from Eenews.net.
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“STEVEN J. MILLOY,” Climateconference.heartland.org. Archived April 6, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/GRMpV
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“CPAC-2017-Agenda-Final” (PDF) CPAC.conservative.org, March 8, 2017. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2
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“Join the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute live now!” Energy & Environment Legal Institute, February 23, 2017 via Facebook. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2
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Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2
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Amanda Reilly. “CLIMATE: Conservatives predict ‘real war’ with environmentalists,” E&E News, February 23, 2017. Archived March 8, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/MOpl2
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Emily Atkin. “Air Pollution Denial Is the New Climate Denial,” New Republic, March 15, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/aQ7BX
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George Cahlink. “Trump EPA adviser Myron Ebell meets with Hill aides,” E&E News, December 12, 2016.
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Graham Readfearn. “Donald Trump’s Aide at EPA Myron Ebell Meets with Who’s Who of Climate Science Deniers,” DeSmog, December 13, 2016.
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“Yesterday I spoke at an event for the Competitive Enterprise Institute called Cooler Heads Coalition in Washington. […]” Facebook post by Malcolm Roberts – QLD Senate – One Nation, December 13 at 6:38 pm. Archived image on file at DeSmog.
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“Global Climate Science Communications Plan (1998),” SourceWatch.
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“CEI Runs “Abuse of Power” Ad In New York Times,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 18, 2016. Archived May 31, 2016.
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“Abuse of Power: All Americans have the right to support causes they believe in” (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“CEI Runs “Abuse of Power” Ad In New York Times,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 18, 2016. Archived May 31, 2016.
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“CEI Runs “Abuse of Power” Ad In New York Times,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 18, 2016. Archived May 31, 2016.
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Steve Horn. “Exxon’s Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims,” DeSmog, May 10, 2016.
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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“Power Hour: Steve Milloy on the Science and Policy of Emissions,” Center for Industrial Progress, September 1, 2015.
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Katherine Bagley. “Leaked Email Reveals Who’s Who List of Climate Denialists,” InsideClimate News. March 12, 2015.
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Kevin Grandia, “Merchants of Doubt Film Debuts, Textbook Denial Attack Campaign Led By Fred Singer Ensues,” DeSmog, March 10, 2015.
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“Fred Singer emails re Merchants of Doubt” (PDF), October 2014. On file at DeSmog.
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“Happy Earth Day: Dispelling Environmental Myths and Celebrating Human Achievement,” YouTube video uploaded by user “The Heritage Foundation,” April 22, 2014.
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Brendan DeMelle. “Climate Denier Steve Milloy Now Director at Coal Giant Murray Energy, On CPAC Global Warming Panel Today,” DeSmog, March 6, 2014.
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“Re: Summary of Murray Energy Corporation’s Objections to MSHA’s Proposed Rules on “Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors, ” Murray Energy Corporation, November 19, 2013. Documents via Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House.
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“Steve Milloy,” LinkedIn. Accessed December 4, 2018. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“About the Founder and Editor Emeritus, Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived March 21, 2014. Archive URL: https://archive.is/IIUv2
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“Fellows & Advisors,” Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/XSMXY
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“Previous FOIAs,” E&E Legal. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yRY4I
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Steve Milloy. “Must-see Cinema: An Inconsistent Truth,” JunkScience.com, January 12, 2012. Archived September 22, 2020.
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“WANTED: ‘CARBON CRIMINALSUSCAP CEOs Who Betray America by Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade” (Media Release), JunkScience.com. September 15, 2009.
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“First International Conference on Climate Change, Program” (PDF), Heartland Institute. Archived January 16, 2018.
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“Survey of IPCC Climate Experts” (PDF), DemandDebate.com, November 8, 2007.
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Brian Angliss. “We Berate, You Deride – DemandDebate.com’s survey on the scientific consensus surrounding global heating,” Scholars & Rogues, November 26, 2007.
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“Al Gore ‘Debates’ Global Warming for the First Time in YouTube Video; ‘We Debate, You Decide’ environmental education video series launched by DemandDebate.com,” PR Newswire, October 4, 2007. Archived August 13, 2014.
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“Al Gore ‘Debates’ Global Warming for the First Time in YouTube Video; ‘We Debate, You Decide’ environmental education video series launched by DemandDebate.com,” PR Newswire, October 4, 2007. Archived August 13, 2014.
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“Al Gore ‘Debates’ Global Warming for the First Time in YouTube Video; ‘We Debate, You Decide’ environmental education video series launched by DemandDebate.com,” PR Newswire, October 4, 2007. Archived August 13, 2014.
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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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“CRASH’D: Al Gore’s Live Earth,” YouTube video, uploaded by user “bureaucrash” on July 13, 2007.
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“GE Loses Bid to Block Global Warming Shareholder Resolution; Mutual Fund Calls On GE to Stop Advocating Global Warming Regulation,” PR Newswire, February 1, 2006. Archived August 11, 2014. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/Wt4h2
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“GE Loses Bid to Block Global Warming Shareholder Proposal; Free Enterprise Action Fund (Ticker: FEAOX) Calls On GE to Justify Lobbying for Global Warming Regulation,” Free Enterprise Action Fund, February 12, 2007. Archived September 21, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/UOkR5
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“SEC denies General Electric bid to block global warming shareholder proposal; Amid economic downturn, GE should justify lobbying for economy-harming climate legislation, says Free Enterprise Action Fund (Ticker: FEAOX),” Free Enterprise Action Fund, January 24, 2008. Archived September 21, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/vUWo4
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Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. “How Big Tobacco Helped Create ‘the Junkman’” (PDF), PR Watch, Third Quarter 2000, Volume 7, No. 3. Archived July 25, 2015.
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“What is junk science?“ JunkScience.com. Archived November 21, 2011. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/U2jqj
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“Steven Milloy,” The Heartland Institute. Archived September 21, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/yv2Sc
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“Steven Milloy,” The Heartland Institute. Archived July 16, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.fo/0L4Vn
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“Re: Annual Report,” The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, January 7, 1998. Retrieved from Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, Bates #2065254885/4890.
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United States Senate Lobby Filing Disclosure Program, listing Milloy as a lobbyist for the EOP Group from 1998-2000. Archived January 23, 2005.
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“Lobbyist Profile: Steve Milloy,” OpenSecrets.org. Accessed September 2020.
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“Fellows & Advisors,” Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/XSMXY
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“Cato Experts: Adjunct Scholars,” The Cato Institute. Archived December 29, 2004.
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“Steven J. Milloy,” Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived September 22, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/EHrmB
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“About Steve Milloy,” JunkScience.com. Archived January 20, 2012. Archive URL: https://archive.is/uj0D0
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Tim Lambert. “The Big Shill,” Deltoid, January 27, 2006. Archived February 12, 2010.
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“Steve Milloy,” Tech Central Station. Archived November 5, 2003.
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“BURN MORE COAL co-founder one of a ‘small but influential set’ Trump has been listening to,” Burn More Coal, December 2, 2018.Archived December 3, 2018. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/2OcIU
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“Steve Milloy,” LinkedIn. Accessed December 4, 2018. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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