More On Unethical, Tax-Payer Funded House Resources' Web Site

RawStory has just reported on the tax-payer funded, House Resources Committe Anti-Earth Day Propaganda Site.

According to the website, RawStory has an "average 400,000 unique visitors daily, and run as high as 540,000 on strong-traffic days." (source)

The front page of RawStory.com reads; REVEALED: INTERNAL GOP EARTH DAY SITECHEERS OIL, SAYS ENVIRONMENTALISTSGREEDY, SLAMS 'SENSATIONAL' TACTICS

RawStory: On Earth Day website, House Republican Committee seeks to 'dispel environmental myths'

"On a little-noticed inside page of the House Resources Committee website, the Republican majority staff have prepared a folio celebrating Earth Day. The focus of the site, RAW STORY has found, is aimed at dispelling the "'sky is falling' sensationalism of environmental activists [that] lead people to falsely believe that our environment is getting worse when it's actually getting better."

The site is cleanly designed and professional, conveying the "soft" aesthetic that has become a hallmark of the environmental movement. It begins in a nonpartisan fashion: "Earth Day is an opportunity for all Americans to educate themselves on the state of our environment, and to pitch-in in their local communities to make them better."

But from there it becomes clearly partisan, lauding America's environmental achievements and attacking those who would have Americans believe anything is wrong with the environment in the United States. There is no mention of global warming or climate change anywhere on the site.

A section titled "big business" -- which some might mistakenly imagine detailing the role of big business in environmental change, or even praising big business' role in helping the environment -- is instead dedicated to detailing the budgets of the largest environmental organizations and accusing them of spending money on themselves rather than on the environment.

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However, aside from the Nature Conservancy, whose annual revenue is listed as $760 million, no single environmental group comes close to the retirement package recently given ExxonMobil chairman Lee Raymond. Raymond was awarded a $400m golden parachute for his twelve years of service to the most profitable company in the world. His retirement bonus is equivalent to a third of the annual budget of all environmental groups listed by House Republicans.
ExxonMobil had a $10 billion profit last year." (More-At-Source)

Update:

Mydd is now covering this as well - Here.

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