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Front Groups do the Dirty Work for Oil and Gas Industry

The Oil And Gas Industry’s Assault On Renewable Energy, Environmental Defense Fund  Jim Marston  April 26, 2013   “………So far, 29 states have implemented Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) programs that require increased production of energy from renewable sources such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass.  They’ve been adopted in red states and blue – from California to Texas to Maine – through democratic processes and with popular support.  RPS programs have helped jumpstart an industry that is spurring economic development, creating American jobs, boosting energy independence and cutting our carbon footprint.

A Bloomberg article released Tuesday details how the oil and gas industry, through some self-described free market organizations that they fund, are trying to engineer a legislative massacre of these policies in more than a dozen states.

The groups may sound familiar: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is currently pushing legislation around the country that would mandate the teaching of climate change denial in public school systems, and The Heartland Institute, which ran a billboard campaignlast year comparing global warming “admitters” to Osama bin Laden and Charles Manson.  Both have long opposed sensible energy policies.  And their funders will sound familiar, too:  the oil, gas and coal industries and their owners like the Koch Brothers.

With this new campaign, though, they are not influencing legislation to fill young minds with false propaganda or attacking climate legislation. They’re attacking renewable energy.  Why?  Apparently, an industry that the naysayers loved to call a loser is now threatening fossil fuel profits…..  http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/04/26/oil-and-gas-industry%E2%80%99s-assault-renewable-energy

April 28, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, USA