{"id":4790,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/american-council-on-science-and-health-acsh\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:56:13","slug":"american-council-on-science-and-health-acsh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/climate\/climate-deniers\/front-groups\/american-council-on-science-and-health-acsh\/","title":{"rendered":"American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group<\/span>
$155,000 received from Koch foundations 1997-2009<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Council for Science and Health<\/a> is an industry-funded group that works to undermine not only climate change science, but the health threats associated with\u00a0 controversial company products like bisphenol-A (BPA) and atrazine, a pesticide. According to Andy Kroll, writing for Mother Jones<\/a>, “Elizabeth Whelan, a Harvard-trained public-health scientist, founded ACSH in 1978 as a counterweight to environmental groups and Ralph Nader’s consumer advocacy movement.”<\/div>\n
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In 1997, ACSH released a position paper<\/a> titled “Global Climate Change and Human Health,” which claims that cutting greenhouse gas emissions, because it would hurt the economy, would be more detrimental to public health than global warming. “[P]olicymakers can safely take several decades to plan a response, and scientists will have enough time to develop cost-effective and anti-climate-change strategies.”<\/p>\n

Among the reviewers of the report were two\u00a0scientists financed by fossil fuel companies:\u00a0Sallie Baliunas<\/a> and Fred Singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to internal American Council on Science and Health<\/a> documents published by Mother Jones, ACSH also receives money from Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute, and many other large companies in the agribusiness, tobacco, chemical and soft drink sectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n