Another Obama Appointment that Lied

At her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, celebrated marine biologist Jane Lubchenco was introduced as "the bionic woman of good science"
Lubchenco said she believed the time had come "to create a new climate of trust."

Science, the medium of her mastery, is her choice for the rapprochement.

What was needed, Lubchenco offered, was "data to believe in."

Lubchenco has been a Pew fellow, a member of the Pew Oceans Commission and the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative that evolved from it.



Lubchenco has been a Pew fellow, a member of the Pew Oceans Commission and the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative that evolved from it. In these endeavors, she was teamed with Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama's choice to be CIA director.



She also lists herself as a director of the Pew trust-financed SeaWeb, which describes itself as existing to "raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it," according to Nils E. Stolpe, a columnist for National Fisherman, who has been reporting on the Pew campaign for many years.



"I don't find (Pew-financed science) to be really clean," said Eric Anderson, president of the 75-member New Hampshire Commercial Fishermen's Association. "I have questions about how pure and clean it really is, there's a lack of transparency."



"The Pew jacket on her — that scares me," Gloucester fisherman Russell Sherman said.



Vast in wealth with an endowment in the billions and generous to an arsenal of environmental platforms worldwide, some pre-existing and some created by Pew interests, the descendents of Joseph N. Pew, founder of Sun Oil Co., have created a powerful force that advances along political fronts under many banners.



Only days ago, the Pew Environmental Group, through the "Herring Alliance," activated a federal lawsuit against NMFS, demanding it crack down on the herring fleet, which is allowed to trawl in mid-levels through areas of fish-rich waters that are closed to groundfishing trawlers.