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Last month, as if to emphasize the point, Exxon hired Philip Cooney, the ex--White House staff member accused of revising government science reports to downplay the link between emissions and global warming. He will work in public affairs on the "issues group." You can guess which one. --By Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
HIRED. PHILIP COONEY, 45, former oil-industry lobbyist who, as a White House environmental adviser, came under fire from environmentalists when it was revealed that he had edited government scientific reports on global warming to downplay ecological threats; by ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, days after he resigned from the Administration...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...
Harvard’s chapter of China Care received a large influx of applications from outside schools to attend this weekend’s conference after Dalio’s December appearance on ABC and in People magazine, according to Cooney...
Though many applications were turned down, Cooney said Harvard’s club will assemble informational packages to distribute to interested students across the country...