"friends of the earth" was originally funded by the oil CEO Robert Anderson to oppose nuclear power.

The invention of the "Type A personality" had similar roots.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3036703/

This claim is meritless — FOE’s wiki talk page has a comment at the end debunking the accusation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Friends_of_the_Earth