Philip Cooney Testifies Before House Oversight and Gov’t Reform Committee
Posted on March 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm by JarenUNBELIEVABLE! I was out of the loop on this one and I just started hearing about it from watching live C-SPAN coverage of it today. They just turned it over to House coverage but before they did James Connaughton, Philip Cooney’s former boss, was testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee. I believe Philip Cooney did earlier among others. The hearings grew a bit heated at times.
Basically, Philip Cooney was a former oil lobbyist who was the Chief of Staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He resigned his post in June of 2005 and was hired by ExxonMobil THREE DAYS LATER!
This guy had no scientific background, but rather a degree in economics. Anyway, there’s evidence that he politically doctored up global climate reports to undermine the evidence of climate change.
Read everything you can about this guy, I know I am out of the loop to just be finding about this now, but I am sure I am not the only one because I did a Yahoo! news search on Philip Cooney and obits from obscure cities came up rather than any news on this.
More on Philip Cooney:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cooney
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ex=1275883200&en=22149dd80c073dd8&ei=5089
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/20/1328225
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1177
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/18/23467/2233
