Corporate Shilling And Greenwashing, Taken To A New Level
After being exposed as grifters who care more about fundraising than policy and the public interest – and revealed as servants of elite and corporate interests who fail to disclose huge conflicts of interest and provide green political cover for pro-corporate political deals – NJ Audubon didn’t blink.
Instead they doubled down – and so did their friends at DEP.
Just yesterday, the diabolically cynical former corporate lawyer and current Murphy DEP Commissioner used NJ Audubon’s CEO – a former Exxon Mobil hack – in a DEP press release praising DEP’s corporate giveaway to the chemical giant BASF at the notorious Ciba-Geigy childhood cancer cluster site in Toms River NJ (researching that now, more to follow on the deal):
“New Jersey Audubon enthusiastically supports this use of Natural Resources Damages to create forests and parks in Toms River,” said Alex Ireland, President and CEO of New Jersey Audubon
Obviously, given his personal relationship to Exxon Mobil, Mr. Ireland should be radioactive.
But an additional and perhaps even worse problem is that NJ Audubon takes lots of money from BASF and therefore has a gross and undisclosed conflict of interest that should disqualify them. In addition to direct donations of thousands of dollars, here’s a particularly perverse BASF funded program from NJA 2020 Annual Report:
New Jersey Green Ribbon Schools were celebrated, and middle school students and teachers were connected to environmental science learning through the BASF Nature of Chemistry Kids’ Lab program.
Right.
But that’s all.
Now if all that’s not disgusting enough for you, consider: after exposing themselves just last week as craven money driven whores on “Giving Tuesday”, NJ Audubon was right back at it today with an appeal to rich people to exploit various tax loopholes and even death: (“meet our donors” – “tax savings” – “protect you assets” – gift your estate to us!):
There is no shame to appeal to anymore – at both NJ Audubon and the Murphy DEP.