Romney Recycling All Of Bush’s EPA-Hating Energy Advisors

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11/13/11

George W. Bush-era energy policy wonks are finding a new home with Mitt Romney . . .

Already on board the Romney train are Jim Connaughton, who ran Bush’s White House Council on Environmental Quality for all eight years; former Assistant Energy Secretary Andy Karsner; former EPA air chief Jeff Holmstead; and former EPA congressional affairs liaison Edward Krenik.

The (Romney) economic team includes Harvard professor Greg Mankiw, a former chairman of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. Former Sen. Jim Talent, a Missouri Republican whose lobbying clients include Peabody Coal, is helping to shape Romney’s energy and foreign policy agenda. Other big names pitching in include former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman and Paula Dobriansky, a Bush-era State Department official who led the U.S. delegation during several rounds of international climate change negotiations.

Romney’s policy shop is run by Lanhee Chen, a former Bush aide at the Department of Health and Human Services. Also on staff is Oren Cass, who GOP sources say has been taking a key role connecting with energy experts outside the campaign.


read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68252.html

also: http://www.grist.org/list/2011-11-14-romney-is-recycling-all-of-bushs-epa-hating-energy-advisors

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1. Ah, loyalty. nt

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2. fidelity