Ex-White House Official to Join Fuel Co.( Philip Cooney: climate change)

[maddezmom]

Ex-White House Official to Join Fuel Co.

Wednesday June 15, 2005 12:31 AM


By H. JOSEF HEBERT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5074723,00.html

[MSgt213]

1. Wow!! Thats a surprise.

[maddezmom]

3. no kidding....Mission Accomplished

is accurate for once. :puke:

[kliljedahl]

2. Uh Huh sure

I hear the Easter Bunny has been named to replace him.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[whatgives]

4. I'm

shocked I tell you, just shocked.:sarcasm:

[struggle4progress]

5. Now that's what I call a revolving door. There oughta be a law. eom

[Robbien]

6. There use to be a law, wonder what happened to it

But now that K Street and the GOP are one and the same entity, I guess being employed by one means automatic employment by the other.

[acmejack]

7. He's the one who should be unfurling a mission accomplished banner!

nt

[pimpbot]

8. BOYCOTT EXXON / MOBIL

Never ever ever ever buy from them again. Maybe we can write letters. I don't know. I'll do my part. I dont buy there anyways cuz the prices are so much higher usually. Plus that whole valdez them really pissed me off too.

Sorry for the rant.

[stanwyck]

20. Perfect

another guy "failing up". This administration is full of them.

[NNN0LHI]

9. W. House Official Singled Out for Editing Climate Reports to Work for Exxon

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRXK4SY9E.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 Mobil in the fall, company spokesman Russ Roberts told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from its headquarters in Irving, Texas. He declined to described Cooney's job.

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

more

[MaineYooper]

10. wouldn't it be more accurate to say he's continuing to work for Exxon...

but at a different address?

un-freakin'-believable. these people truly have no shame.

[Roland99]

11. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

[Karenina]

12. Not.

:eyes:

[Auntie Bush]

13. Talk about a conflict of interest!

Isn't that against the law?

[ovidsen]

14. Former Bush Aide Who Edited Reports Is Hired by Exxon (NYT)

New York Times
June 15, 2005

By Andrew C. Revkin

Philip A. Cooney, the former White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming, will go to work for Exxon Mobil this fall, the oil company said yesterday.

Mr. Cooney resigned as chief of staff for President Bush's environmental policy council on Friday, two days after documents obtained by The New York Times revealed that he had edited the reports in ways that cast doubt on the link between the emission of greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

A former lawyer and lobbyist with the American Petroleum Institute, the main lobbying group for the oil industry, Mr. Cooney has no scientific training. The White House, which said on Friday that there was no connection between last week's disclosure and Mr. Cooney's resignation, repeated yesterday that his actions were part of the normal review process for documents on environmental issues involving many government agencies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/politics/15climate.html?pagewanted=all

The White House and the energy industry sure do know how to take care of eachother. This article comes a day after one in the WSJ which describes how Exxon is the only major energy conglomerate that has firmly rejected the "growing scientific consensus that fossil fuels are a major contributor to the (global warming) problem".

The WSJ goes on to day that under chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond, Exxon is now "the most peofitable oil company in the world".

Sounds like Mr. Cooney has found a perfect new home

[Julius Civitatus]

15. Business as usual

Years ago this would be a HUGE SCANDAL.

This Republican administration has made corruption so common this doesn't even surprise anyone anymore. This shit is now business-as-usual in DC. And the media IGNORE these things (as long as they don't involve celebrities or white women in peril).

:argh:

[dissent1977]

16. White House Official Who Doctored Global Warming Reports Hired By ExxonMob

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 ExxonMobil 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.

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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.

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A whistleblower, Rick Piltz, who resigned in March from the government office that coordinates federal climate change programs, made the documents — showing handwritten edits by Cooney — available to the Project on Government Accountability and, in turn, to news media.

More: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0615-04.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. How else is that guy going to send his kids to college,

pay a mortgage on a 1,500,000 house in Virginia, and belong to the country club? That stuff costs money.

[Supersedeas]

18. ah, the parade begins...all singing the mantra as the walk out the WH door

my work for the oil industry is done here, now it's time to assume my desk job in the glass high rise.

words soon to be uttered by the likes of Rummi, Condi, Dickie, and DWummy.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Former White House official takes Exxon job

Former White House official takes Exxon job
Cooney caused controversy by editing climate reports
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Posted: 11:56 AM EDT (1556 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 Mobil in the fall, company spokesman Russ Roberts told The Associated Press by telephone from the company's headquarters in Irving, Texas. 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.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/15/cooney.exxon.ap/index.html