Update on Philip Cooney

Perhaps he won't even notice he has changed jobs.
--David G. Hawkins, with the Natural Resources Defense Council

Last week I blogged about Philip Cooney, the ex-oil lobbyist who doctors White House climate change reports for a living. Now the New York Times reports he's leaving Bush, Inc., to take a position with Exxon"Let's Not Cry Over Spilled Oil"Mobil.

Oil industry insiders are writing this Administration's energy policy. Duh, let's see: whose best interests might they have in mind? Yours? Mine? The nation's? The world's?