Editing Science & Environmental Policy Project (section)

{{Short description|Advocacy group}}
{{External links|date=April 2022}}
'''The Science & Environmental Policy Project''' (SEPP) is an advocacy group financed by private contributions based in [[Arlington County, Virginia]].<ref name=desmog>{{Cite web|url=https://www.desmogblog.com/science-and-environmental-policy-project|title=Science and Environmental Policy Project|website=DeSmogBlog|language=en|access-date=2019-03-19}}</ref> It was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist [[S. Fred Singer]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/26/science/climate-plan-is-criticized-as-a-risky-bet.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | title=Climate Plan Is Criticized As a Risky Bet | first=Andrew C. | last=Revkin | date=2002-02-26 | access-date=2010-05-23}}</ref>

SEPP disputes the prevailing scientific views on several scientific issues including [[scientific opinion on climate change|climate change]], [[ozone depletion]], and the health risks of [[secondhand smoke]].<ref name=desmog /><ref>SEPP, [http://www.sepp.org/key%20issues/keyissue.html Key Issues (Updated July 2006)]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712133504/http://www.sepp.org/key%20issues/keyissue.html |date=July 12, 2010 }}</ref>

SEPP's former chairman of the Board of Directors is listed as [[Rockefeller University]] president emeritus [[Frederick Seitz]],<ref name="sepp.org">SEPP, [http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/boarddir.html SEPP Board of Directors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928121846/http://www.sepp.org/about%20sepp/boarddir.html |date=2006-09-28 }}, accessed 19 Sep 2010</ref> a former president of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], now deceased.<ref name="sepp.org"/><ref>Patricia Sullivan, ''[[Washington Post]]'', 6 March 2008, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503524.html Frederick Seitz, 96; Physicist Cast Doubt On Global Warming]</ref>