That the Governor who raised 33 million
dollars from real - estate donors and corporate entities before the gubernatorial campaign even started may have allowed undue influence for these entities to
lobby and pass legislation they desired as a
result of their donations to the Cuomo campaign war chest.
plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of
dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific
results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal
lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.