Jeffrey Salmon

Jeffrey T. Salmon is a former Dick Cheney speechwriter, former Marshall Institute Executive Director, and a global warming skeptic. He is currently (Jan. 2010 ) Deputy Director for Resource Management in the Department of Energy's Office of Science, where he oversees decisions on its grants and budget - apparently including climate research.

Under the George W. Bush administration, he had risen to Associate Under Secretary for Science at the DOE, then "burrowed in" the summer before Bush left office. .

Academic
1985 Ph.D. in World Politics, (or International Relations ), Catholic University of America

Career

 * (date?) At the Department of Defense he was Senior Speechwriter to three Secretaries of Defense - Dick Cheney and Caspar Weinberger (who was #3?)


 * circa 1988, Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (was there in Nov 1988)


 * 1991-2001, Executive Director of the George C. Marshall Institute


 * 2001-2002, Senior Policy Advisor to (and Director of Speechwriting for) Secretary of the Department of Energy Spencer Abraham


 * 2002-?, Chief of Staff to the Director of the Office of Science at the DoE


 * ?-mid-2008, Associate Under Secretary for Science under Raymond L. Orbach


 * mid 2008 - present, Deputy Director for Resource Management in the Office of Science at the DoE ,

Climate actions
As the Marshall Institute's representative on the Global Climate Science Team, Salmon "participated in the development of a now-notorious oil industry-sponsored plan to wage a campaign against the mainstream science community on global warming."

Salmon founded the Environmental Literacy Council in 1997.

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Global Climate Science Team (1998 API memo)
 * Independent Commission on Environmental Education
 * Environmental Literacy Council
 * George C. Marshall Institute
 * Dick Cheney