The Government appointed Ole P. Kristensen, an ex-professor at the institute where Lomborg worked, as the first Director of the Board.
The EAI published a series of reports on environmental issues, from the value of a deposit/return system for drink cans to global warming.
A report from October 2002 made an economic cost-benefit analysis of deposits on disposable bottles and cans.
It concluded that it would be better to abandon the deposit system and to let the bottles and cans be burned together with other household garbage.
Three of them did so because of disagreement about the Institute's involvement in the Copenhagen Consensus project, the others did so because of lack of time and conflicts of interest.