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<DIV><FONT size=4>Whores! All of them!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=msolomon@moscow.com href="mailto:msolomon@moscow.com">Mark
Solomon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:32
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] The Bush/Industry
revolving door</DIV>
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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>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Mark Solomon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>*********</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT color=#000000 size=+1><B><BR></B></FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT color=#000000 size=+1><B>New York Times</B></FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT color=#000000 size=+1><B>June 15, 2005<BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT
color=#000000 size=+3><B>Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports to Join
ExxonMobil<BR><BR></B></FONT><FONT color=#000000><B> By</B></FONT><FONT
color=#000066><B> ANDREW C. REVKIN</B></FONT><FONT
color=#000000><B><BR><BR><BR></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><BR>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><BR> 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><BR> 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><BR>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><BR>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></FONT></FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000066 size=-2>Copyright 2005 The New York Times
Company</FONT></DIV>
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