Public Citizen is pleased to announce that we have accepted a generous grant of $10 million dollars from BP.
In a just released statement, Public Citizen President Robert Weissman said:
We are extremely grateful to accept this check for $10 million dollars from our partners at BP. Though a little less than a year ago we launched a national boycott of BP, brought a giant inflatable oil barrel and
Public Citizen mending fences with the enemy?
hundreds of protesters to their Washington, D.C. office, and have been relentlessly hounding them for years to clean up their act, we believe they are now good corporate citizens.
In addition, today, April 1, former BP CEO Tony Hayworth will join Public Citizen’s board of directors. Weissman went on to say,
Public Citizen is thrilled to have Tony join our board. We know that he will be warmly welcomed by our other Public Citizen board members.
By the way, did we mention … it’s APRIL FOOLS’ DAY!
Come on now, you know Public Citizen doesn’t accept corporate or government funding! We rely solely on donations from individuals, foundation grants and publication sales to keep us going. That enables us to remain fiercely independent.
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