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...head of the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center (EEPC) said yesterday that the Department of Energy (DOE) stopped funding the center after it produced a report last fall highly critical of the Reagan Administration's energy policy...
...EEPC Director Irwin M. Stelzer said that while the DOE had been the center's largest donor over the past six years, giving between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, it cut off all support after the center issued a report last September that challenged an earlier DOE study of energy security issues...
...EEPC report, called "Energy Security Revisited," advocated a $5 a barrel oil import fee and said the conclusions of a 1987 Energy Department study were politically biased. Written by Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy William W. Hogan and EEPC Assistant Director Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, the report said the DOE miscalculated by $200 billion the effects an oil import fee would have on the economy...
Observers questioned the objectivity of the approximately $75,000 EEPC study at the time of its release because it was partially funded by independent oil companies who have a strong business stake in backing an oil import fee. (see related story...
Clyde H. Greenert, Union Carbide's director of public issues, said yesterday that his company had stopped funding the center because it disagreed with the study. "We decided to stop funding for a variety of reasons, certainly including the fact that [the EEPC] is a proponent of something that would be disastrous for our industry," Greenert said. "Because of this, we decided that it might not be the best place to put our money...