Big polluters have spent years funding think tanks to give a veneer of credibility to their push for profit. I mean, if the CEO of Exxon Mobil comes out and says Congress should roll back the Clean Air Act, it's just bad optics. So instead they give more than $2 million to the Competitive Enterprise Institute to say it for them.
Now the polluter-funded think tank-media complex has a new target - whitewashing the Gulf oil disaster.