Steven Milloy

Steven J. Milloy is a lawyer, lobbyist, author and Fox News commentator. He describes himself as a libertarian and his close financial and organizational ties to tobacco and oil companies have been the subject of criticism from a number of sources, as Milloy has consistently disputed the scientific consensus on climate change and the health risks of second-hand smoke.Among the topics Milloy has addressed are what he believes to be false claims regarding DDT, global warming, Alar, breast implants, second-hand smoke, ozone depletion, and mad cow disease. Milloy also runs CSRWatch.com, which monitors and criticizes the corporate social responsibility movement. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute, which hosted the JunkScience.com site. He is currently an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Milloy is head of the Congressional Effect Fund (formerly the Free Enterprise Action Fund), a mutual fund he runs with former tobacco executive Tom Borelli. He also operates The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), a non-profit organization established by Philip Morris Companies Inc. to counter legislation against second-hand smoke. (Now from his home in Potomac, Maryland) . TASSC was originally known as The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which was established by the Philip Morris controlled PR company APCO specifically to attack the scientific credentials of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when they threatened to categorise second-hand smoke as a "known carcinogen". Bonner Cohen who published the EPA Watch newsletter for Philip Morris was a partner with Milloy in both the original TASSC and the revamped operation through the Cato Institute; TASSC was a major lobbyist in attacking EPA science on global warming.