With all the talk about whether the FEC should require bloggers to reveal on their websites if they are paid by campaigns to blog in favor of the campaigns, Jeff Hauser passes along this link to a Howard Kurtz Washington Post column, which notes the following:

ExxonMobil has funneled money to 40 organizations that have either challenged scientific evidence on global warming or are linked to skeptical scientists who do so, says the forthcoming issue of Mother Jones.
Take Steven Milloy, who writes columns for FoxNews.com, the Washington Times and the New York Sun. ExxonMobil has given $40,000 to the Advancement of Sound Science Center and $50,000 to the Free Enterprise Action Institute, two groups where he is a director and which are registered to his home address in Potomac.
Milloy, who runs the Web site JunkScience.com and is a Cato Institute scholar, wrote one column for Fox headlined “Polar Bear Scare on Thin Ice.” A 2001 column for USA Today was titled “Does Global Warming Really Matter?”
Milloy says Mother Jones has taken “old information and sloppily tried to insinuate that ExxonMobil has a say in what I write in my Fox column, which is entirely false. . . . My columns are based on what I believe and no one pays me to believe anything.” Despite a mainstream scientific consensus, Milloy says that “the hysteria about global warming is entirely junk science-based” and that he sees no need to disclose the ExxonMobil funding in his writing because it’s not “relevant.”
ExxonMobil spokeswoman Lauren Kerr says groups funded by the company “address a wide range of issues important to our industry, not just climate change.” The oil giant believes the evidence on greenhouse gas emissions “remains inconclusive,” she says, and “the funding question only seems to become a relevant issue to the media when it’s a question of industry contributions or lobbying — not when the money comes from the environmental lobby.”

The Mother Jones story is here.