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 Stories About: coal AND energy AND lying liars AND politics AND state politics AND Utah
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Jim Sims and the clean coal PR push
Learn how to recognize the shills |
David Roberts |
17 Apr 2007 |
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| Yesterday I wrote about an energy conference in Utah at which Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer enthusiastically shilled for coal and demanded more federal money for it. Looking more closely at the conference, I see I shouldn't have been surprised. The Salt Lake Tribune story from yesterday is all but a press release for Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who hosted the shindig. Toward the end, though, it drops this tidbit: Some of the West's biggest names in energy, includin ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, lying liars, politics, state politics, Utah (all these topics) |
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