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 [lawnorder] (DV) Sanders: Trained to "Disassemble": Cooney reached out to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, to help the White House "clean up the mess" created by the "Climate Action Report 2002." The CEI, as it turns out, just happens to have benefitted from more than $1.3 million in funding from Exxon/Mobil, the world's largest oil company. Predictably, two days after CEI agreed to help Mr.

[Chriscmooney.com] Chris C Mooney: Similarly, the Bush administration appointed former American Petroleum Institute attorney Philip Cooney -- who headed the institute’s “climate team” and opposed the Kyoto Protocol -- as chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In June 2003 the New York Times reported that the CEQ had watered down an Environmental Protection Agency report’s discussion of climate change, leading EPA scientists to charge that the document “no longer accurately represents scientific consensus.” Meanwhile, here's what I wrote on Dobriansky, ExxonMobil, Greenpeace, and Kyoto:

 [Poormojo.org] Poor Mojo Newswire: He's also aggravated by the continued string of sunny assessments from the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remark that the insurgency is in its "last throes." "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse.

 [Rollingstone.com] RollingStone.com: The RS Blog : Politics: But the RS Blog has it on good authority that Cooney's editing started .This wasn'ta routine "inter-agency review process", as Scott McClellan claims.

[Progressnow.org] ProgressNow.org Weblog: It was no surprise to learn that Philip Cooney, who resigned last week as chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will soon take a job at Exxon Mobil. His yeoman work in fighting against limits on greenhouse gas emissions, first as a lawyer for the oil industry's main lobbying group and then at the White House, where he sanitized reports to play down the link between emissions and global warming, clearly earned the reward of a cushy job with Exxon, a leading opponent of curbs on emissions.

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