“Runners shouldn’t smoke, priests shouldn’t touch the kids, and environmentalists should never take money from polluters,” John Passacantando, a former director of Greenpeace who is now an environmental consultant, said in an interview with the New York Times.
Passacantando was reacting to the recent disclosure that the Sierra Club’s secretly accepted $26 million in donations from people associated with Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas company, has revived a debate among environmental groups: Are corporate donations OK and, if so, what kind of transparency should be required of non-profits accepting the donations? What do you think?
To read more about the Sierra Club’s acceptance of this donation and its aftermath in the New York Times, click here.
