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Industry-Attorney General Collaboration

This NYTimes article explains the way Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma and President of the Attorney General’s Association has collaborated in secret with Devon Oil company, a large campaign contributor of his. In fact, Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year.
“Individual attorneys general have shut down investigations, changed policies or agreed to more corporate-friendly settlement terms after intervention by lobbyists and lawyers, many of whom are also campaign benefactors.”
“But the attorneys general are also working collectively. Democrats for more than a decade have teamed up with environmental groups such as the Sierra Club to use the court system to impose stricter regulation. But never before have attorneys general joined on this scale with corporate interests to challenge Washington and file lawsuits in federal court.”
With 27 of the nations’ Attorneys General as Republicans, environmentalists must be hanging their heads at the tough struggle that surely lies ahead.

I think working outside the system in marches and rallies has proven a good tactic in the past, but how can we mobilize a country who voted in a republican congress which is targeting Obama’s environmental reform. This is just another reminder of all the moving parts within this struggle. Alternative technologies may be promising, but as long as our government supports the oil industry and other non renewables, the battle might be a losing one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?ref=energy-environment

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