fumes committee and to the oil industry s grand strategy to combine science with public relations to constantly delay action on a range of air pollution measures that began with smog but soon expanded to include sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide the main driver of climate change. the smoke and fumes committee had one main goal to forestall any attempt to legislate against pollution its president vance jenkins made this unmistakably clear in one thousand nine hundred fifty four. the worst thing that can happen in many instances is the passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation. big oil began assembling a network company supported colleges and think tanks like the stanford research institute was donations they returned the favor with specific studies studies like the robinson report which returned unsavory results were revised. forty years later