CO2 Is Green

See Plants Need CO2 for more information.

CO2 Is Green is the 501(c)(4) companion to 501(c)(3)Plants Need CO2, running media advertisements pushing a "More CO2 is good" message. . According to its Certificate of Formation, the group's directors are spokesman (and EOG Resources Director) H. Leighton Steward, Wyatt Hogan, and coal baron Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., who "is said to own more coal through his various ventures than anyone outside of the U.S. government."

2009 founding: $752k stock purchase and $752k income
Both groups were founded in mid-2009. Curiously, this organization 2009 income of $752,800 is within $10 of director Leighton Steward's $752,807.30 purchase of EOG Resources stock on June 3, 2009, the week after the first of the two groups' domains was registered. . (As the purchase does not appear to have been a stock option exercise, it's unclear why the two amounts would match; an explanation has been requested. .)

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