It's Not Easy Being Green

It's Not Easy Being Green
It's much easier to be brown and to line your pockets with green.

"Ciaran Cuffe is a Green Party member of the Irish parliament, and its environment spokesman. It turns out that he has, according to the Irish Examiner (registration required) a $1.3 million stock portfolio:
The Green Party TD for Dun Laoghaire and environment spokesman has, according to his declaration of interests, shares in Chevron Texaco, which was fined for pollution offences in Angola; General Electric, which has a nuclear division and arms links and Procter & Gamble which was convicted of water pollution in Nenagh.
The environmentalist politician also earns dividends from the activities of Schering Plough, which was fined for breaches of drug manufacturing standards and Johnson & Johnson one of the world’s top five companies involved in animal vivisection.