Last month, the New York Times reported that Phil Cooney,
a former oil industry lobbyist working for the White House, edited scientific climate change reports to significantly exaggerate uncertainty about the science behind global warming.
After blowing the whistle in July, Clement has been openly and fiercely critical of Secretary Zinke, Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt (
a former oil industry lobbyist), and President Trump.
Not exact matches
Elected officials like
former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded
lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other
oil industry projects.
[17] Before joining the Bush White House, Philip Cooney who had spent years on the payroll of the American Petroleum Institute where he worked as a leading
lobbyist against regulation of the
oil and gas
industry and served as the
former «climate team leader» of API.
Alexandra «Sandy» Liddy Bourne runs an
oil industry front group called the American Energy Freedom Center with
former ExxonMobil
lobbyist Randy Randol.
The group just hired Paul Bailey, a
former operative for the
oil and electric power
industries, as its top
lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the
oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled
lobbyists for tobacco companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished
former President of the Royal Society.
From the beginning of his administration,
oil man
former President George W. Bush consistently appointed
former lobbyists, executives and others from the fossil fuel
industry to key decision - making posts within the federal government.