Chris Horner
Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Horner is a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Horner is a lawyer by training and regularly appears on television as a commentator on the issue of climate change.
The CEI is well-known for its public efforts to aggressively counter the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change, including an infamous set of television ads with the tag line "C02, We Call it Life."
Since 1998, the CEI has received over $2 million in funding from oil-giant ExxonMobil. Other organizations that have contributed to the CEI include tobacco-giant Philip Morris, who has provided $370,000 since 1991 to the CEI for assistance in "regulatory issues."
A 1996 Brown and Williamson memo lists the CEI as a funded organization providing research and developing public policy positions.
In January 2007, ExxonMobil announced that it would no longer be funding the CEI.
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