The American Petroleum Institute (API) reportedly wrote a memo around 1998 that outlined a strategy that was aimed at making global warming recognition an uncertainty. This memo was published by the New York Times in 1998. This memo was compared to a 60’s memo by a tobacco company that observed, "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."
In June 2005 a former API lawyer, Philip Cooney, resigned his White House post after accusations of politically-motivated tampering with scientific reports.
In 2002 the Global Climate Coalition (GCC )considered its work in the US against regulation on global warming to have been so successful that it deactivated itself.
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