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After the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) pulled the #ExxonKnew campaign’s latest stunt, it should come as no surprise to anyone that this effort – like everything to do with #ExxonKnew – can be traced directly back to the 2012 Rockefeller-funded La Jolla conference.

As Energy in Depth has noted many times, the 2012 La Jolla conference was held so that activists could throw around ideas on how they could try and link Big Tobacco and Big Oil and use racketeering laws against oil companies. We already know that Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists and CIEL board member Matt Pawa (who both briefed the AGs launching climate investigations ahead of their March 29^th press conference with Al Gore) were at the La Jolla conference. We also know that Michael MacCracken, who apparently “tipped off” InsideClimate News about Exxon documents that have been publicly available for decades, was also there. And we know that the conference was funded by wealthy foundations like the V.Kann Rasmussen Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Grantham Foundation.

Now, it turns out the documents CIEL “released” yesterday (they’re not new by the way) are linked to a  fellow called Stanton Glantz, a professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for Tobacco Control who also attended that very same La Jolla conference.

That’s important because the tobacco documents are housed by UCSF TruthTobacco Documents Library, which is funded by a View Full Article