You hear a lot these days about how the Bush administration is starting to heed the polls and buff up its image on the environment and Big Oil lackey fronts. But developments like these reassure me that the Bushies are going to stick determinedly to principle. This from today’s Wall Street Journal ‘Washington Wire’ …
Climate-change treaty foe Philip Cooney is the new chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which helps formulate the U.S. position on global warming. At the American Petroleum Institute, he helped develop the oil lobby’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Which reminds me, I’ve still got to get in my application for this year’s oil studies fellowship over at the ‘Institute.’
