H. Leighton Steward
{{#badges: CoalSwarm | Climate change | Front groups }}H. Leighton Steward is the spokesman for Plants Need CO2 and the registrant of their website. According to its corporate Certificate of Formation[1], Steward is a director at EOG Resources, an oil and gas company formerly known as Enron Oil and Gas Company, where he earned $617,151 in 2008. Steward also serves as an honorary director of the American Petroleum Institute. [2]
Steward is "a geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive" who's interested in "helping to educate the general public and the politicians about the tremendous benefits of carbon dioxide (CO2) as it relates to the plant and animal kingdoms and their related ecosystems and habitats, and the general health of humanity".[3]
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- ↑ Filing #801134935, filed June 15 2009 with the Texas Secretary of State
- ↑ Miles Grant, "Big Oil creates phony climate denial site, lies about it", Grist, September 4, 2009.
- ↑ Plants Need CO2 (2009). About Plants Need CO2 - CO2 is Green & Green is Good. Retrieved on 2009-09-18.
