Groups work valiantly to help public understand climate issue.
For at least eight years, since the Rio s Earth Summit, members of the three dominant environmental NGOs have critically examined national and private sector responses to increasingly solid scientific evidence on greenhouse gas emissions. They also labored, especially in Europe, to increase public awareness. At the same time, one woman, Margie Richard came and presented Shell Oil Company officials a bag of toxic air from around her Norco, Louisiana home located next to a Shell plant. She also gave Shell a bottle of contaminated water from a plant site in Ogoni in Nigeria. She was sponsored by Corporate Watch, an online publication.