White House official who cooked climate change report to join EXXON!

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday.

The White House announced over the weekend that Philip Cooney, chief of staff of its Council on Environmental Quality, had resigned, calling it a long-planned departure. He had been head of the climate program at the American Petroleum Institute, the trade group for large oil companies.

Cooney will join Exxon Mobile in the fall, company spokesman Russ Roberts told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from its Dallas headquarters. He declined to described Cooney's job.

Cooney could not be reached through the White House for comment.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Cooney's departure was "completely unrelated" to the disclosure two days earlier that he had made changes in several government climate change reports that were issued in 2002 and 2003.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050614/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cooney_exxon_1

[dave29]

1. oils well

that ends well

[Don Claybrook]

5. Beck into the loving arms of the petrochemical industry

Those enviro-wackos are just mean, mean people. I'll bet it feels great for him to be back at home again.

[bridgit]

2. disgusting...

:thumbsdown:

[Coexist]

3. whodathunkit? n/t

[Erika]

4. Bush's new world order in play n/t

[Al-CIAda]

6. This entire cabal is off the hook batshit insane with criminality. n/t

[earth mom]

11. You said it...and that's why I'm not surprised. Disgusted...yes.

But not surprised. :puke:

[Dudley_DUright]

7. He was already bought and payed for by Exxon

Now he is just admitting it publicly.

[Raster]

8. I mean, come on, who did not see this one coming???

The White House should be proudly flying the Exxon/Mobile flag from the ramparts. I mean, that's who really runs the show.

[slor]

9. Sounds like a match made...

in Hell!

[woofless]

10. Whew, that makes my day.

I was concerned that Cooney might have a problem finding a position and wind up unemployed like so many of us.

Woof