Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush

[Eugene]

White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance

John Vidal, environment editor
Wednesday June 8, 2005
The Guardian

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to
the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from
ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other
industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the
Guardian.

The documents, which emerged as Tony Blair visited the
White House for discussions on climate change before
next month's G8 meeting, reinforce widely-held suspicions of
how close the company is to the administration and its role in
helping to formulate US policy.

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of
state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is
found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement"
in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its
advice on what climate change policies the company might find
acceptable.

EDIT

Until now Exxon has publicly maintained that it had no involvement in
the US government's rejection of Kyoto. But the documents, obtained by
Greenpeace under US freedom of information legislation, suggest this
is not the case.

EDIT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html

[slor]

1. Just when you think...

it is not possible to loathe these bastards more! We all could have guessed this, but now we have another damning paper trail, that proves it, and yet, once again, we are reading about it, in non-American media.

[Skittles]

2. INFULUENCE him? THEY F***ING OWN HIM.

OY

[unhappycamper]

3. in a nutshell,

http://www.dekorraproducts.com.nyud.net:8090/Images/money-stackLrg.jpg

[Coastie for Truth]

4. The influence of APIPAC

APIPAC = American PETROLEUM Institute PAC





As a "chemical engineer" my experience - in addition to your employer's PAC, people in the "industry" are expected to "voluntarily" contribute to APIPAC.

That's "APIPAC" -- not "AIPAC"

[Coastie for Truth]

6. APIPAC Redux

, New York Times, June 9, 2005

President Bush moved quickly after the 2000 election to fill many of the important environmental and energy jobs with corporate lobbyists who had spent their careers trying to weaken the laws they would then swear to protect. Most were vetted by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. The result has been an erosion of the regulatory framework protecting the country's air, water, public lands and wildlife, combined with a chronic unwillingness by the administration to address difficult environmental issues.

Anyone needing evidence of industry's influence need look no further than Andrew C. Revkin's article in Wednesday's Times involving the handiwork of one Philip Cooney, an important but heretofore obscure official who serves as chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Mr. Cooney spent his immediate pre-White House years as a lawyer at the American Petroleum Institute, where he helped organize the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gas emissions from factories and automobiles. Mr. Revkin reported that Mr. Cooney had been fighting the same fight in his new job by sanitizing government reports in an effort to cast doubt on the link - a link accepted by mainstream scientists - between climate change and the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels.

Creating uncertainty about that connection, of course, reduces the chances that anything meaningful will be done to clamp down on those emissions and thus to discomfit Mr. Bush's corporate allies.

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APIPAC --- not AIPAC!!

[jpak]

5. Those meddling Greenpeace twits are at it again

Why do they hate our pro-oil pro-coal pro-nucular popular wartime president so much????

They should stick to chanting mantras...

:)