CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
Obama
Pandering to Coal Industry
21 Corporate Crime Reporter 3, January 14, 2007
Senator Barrack Obama (D-Illinois) is pandering to the coal industry.
Again.
The National Mining Association yesterday put out a glowing
review of legislation sponsored by Obama and Senator Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky)
that would promote coal-to-liquid fuels production.
Frank O’Donnell of Clean
Air Watch is critical of the industry because of the likelihood of greenhouse
gas increases.
“One of DC's little secrets is that environmentalists breathed a big sigh
of relief when Obama recently left the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,
which could be voting on global warming legislation later this year,”
O’Donnell said. “No wonder, in light of this coal-pandering ploy.”
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