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Mark P. Mills was, according to a November 2000 biographical note, "President of Mills McCarthy & Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based research-consulting firm specializing in technology strategy focused on the energy industry. Mills is founder and publisher of the newsletter Breakthrough Technologies, and is also a regular contributor to the international newsletter World Climate Report, as well as other publications."[1]
The biographical note stated that he "has worked with over 80 utilities in providing strategic plans, market assessment, speeches, seminars, executive briefings, expert testimony and analytic research. He has provided technology "due diligence" on emerging products and is actively engaged in developing strategic partnerships. He has testified on energy issues before Congress as well as state legislatures and served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy, and national laboratories. Prior to founding his business, he worked in the White House Science Office under President Reagan."[1]
"Mills obtained a BSc degree in Physics at Queen’s University, Canada, and completed graduate work in Solid State Physics at Rutgers University. He is a member of numerous professional societies and spent his early career in integrated circuit, fiber optic and solid state device engineering and development," it stated.[1]
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Global warming skeptic
Between December 1998[2] and November 2000[1] he was listed as a "Scientific Adviser" to the Greening Earth Society, a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal-burning utility companies. WFA founded the group in 1997, according to an archived version of its website, "as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use."[3]
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Mills spoke at the American Legislative Exchange Council's States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 2009.
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Greening Earth Society, "Scientific Advisers", Greening Earth Society, website archived from November 2000.
- ↑ "Scientific Advisers", Greening Earth Society, website archived from December 1998.
- ↑ "Join GES", Greening Earth Society website, archived from March 2005.
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