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<div><font color="#000000">Have these people no shame? Bad enough the
way Cooney changed documents at will to disguise the global warming
issue but check out the White House spokesperson quote!</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Mark Solomon</font></div>
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<div><tt><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>New York
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<div><tt><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>June 15, 2005<br>
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</b></font><font size="+3" color="#000000"><b>Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited
Climate Reports to Join ExxonMobil<br>
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</b></font><font color="#000000"><b> By</b></font><font
color="#000066"><b> ANDREW C. REVKIN</b></font><font
color="#000000"><b><br>
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</b><font size="+1">Philip A. Cooney, the White House staff member who
repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming,
will go to work for ExxonMobil in the fall, the oil company said
today.<br>
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Mr. Cooney resigned on Friday as chief of staff to President Bush's
environmental policy council, two days after documents obtained by The
New York Times showed that he had edited the reports in ways that cast
doubt on the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and rising
temperatures.<br>
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A former lawyer and lobbyist with the American Petroleum
Institute, the main lobbying group for the oil industry, Mr. Cooney
has no scientific training.<br>
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The White House, which said Friday that there was no connection
between last week's disclosure and Mr. Cooney's resignation, repeated
today that Mr. Cooney's actions were part of the normal review process
for documents on environmental issues involving many government
agencies.<br>
<br>
"Phil Cooney did a great job," said Dana Perino, a deputy
White House spokeswoman, "and we appreciate his public service
and the work that he did, and we wish him well in the private
sector."<br>
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An Exxon spokesman, Tom Cirigliano, declined to describe Mr. Cooney's
new job. Associates of Mr. Cooney said he planned to move to Dallas.
Mr. Cooney did not return e-mail or phone messages.ExxonMobil has long
financed advertising and lobbying efforts that question whether
human-caused warming poses sufficiently serious risks to justify
curbing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by smokestacks
and tailpipes.<br>
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Today, Mr. Cirigliano said the oil company was committed to acting
responsibly on the issue.<br>
<br>
"ExxonMobil has taken, is taking, and will continue to take
tangible actions to reduce emissions in our operations as well as in
customer use of our products, and to better understand and prepare for
the risks of climate change," he said.<br>
<br>
Some climate scientists and environmental campaigners said Mr.
Cooney's quick shift from the White House to Exxon was evidence of a
near-seamless relationship between the Bush administration and the oil
industry.<br>
<br>
"Perhaps he won't even notice he has changed jobs," said
David G. Hawkins, who directs the climate center at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group.<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#000066">Copyright 2005 The
New York Times Company</font></div>
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