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Environment Essay Research Paper 14The Blue Ribbon

Environment Essay, Research Paper


14


The Blue Ribbon Coalition: Protector of Recreation or


Industry?


IV. Blue Ribbon Coalition Funding is Part of a Larger


Campaign.


A. Lobbying Expenditures:


While the corporation that fund the Blue Ribbon Coalition are using the coalition to advance


their anti-roadless area protection agenda, these corporations also spend massive resources


lobbying both the Administration and Congress directly. Appendix A of this report includes a


complete list of the lobbying expenditures for companies and trade associations that sponsor the


Blue Ribbon Coalition and the number of lobbyists they have hired to advance their agenda.


This report looked at expenditures between 1997, when the roadless area policy proposal was


first announced, to 1999, the latest expenditure information available.


? Timber Companies and Trade Associations: Between 1997 and 1999, these timber


companies and their trade associations spent more than $9 million on lobbying expenditures and


hired 47 lobbyists, in part to advance their anti-environmental agenda in Washington, D.C. The


American Forest and Paper Association spend $6.9 million and employed 36 lobbyists during


this peri

od of time. Boise-Cascade, which logs more on national forestland than any other


timber company, spent $866,500 between 1997 and 1999.


? Oil and Gas Industry: Between 1997 and 1999, the oil and gas companies and trade


associations that fund the Blue Ribbon Coalition spent $36.7 million and employed 93 lobbyists


to advance their agenda on Capitol Hill and within the Clinton Administration. Exxon-Mobil


alone spent $19.9 million and employed 13 lobbyists while the American Petroleum Institute


spend $10.04 million and employed 60 lobbyists during this time.


? The Mining Industry: Between 1997 and 1999, the mining companies that fund the


Blue Ribbon Coalition spent $300,000 and employed 6 lobbyists in Washington, D.C.


B. Campaign Contributions:


Another form of influence by Blue Ribbon Coalition corporate funders is to look at the amount


of campaign contributions expended during the fight to undermine the Forest Service?s roadless


area policy (with the spiraling costs of running campaigns, these large contributions become


relatively more important to those who seek to govern). The extractive industries? interests are


furthered by the influence their contributions hold over who runs for office and who wins


elections.

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