{"id":754,"date":"2009-08-04T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/08\/04\/coal-industry-group-linked-to-forged-letters\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:38:11","slug":"coal-industry-group-linked-to-forged-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/08\/04\/coal-industry-group-linked-to-forged-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Industry Group Linked to Forged Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We told you the opposition was <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/07\/22\/enemies-of-climate-action-turn-up-the-heat\/\">turning up the heat<\/a> on the climate bill, but their efforts have reached a new low.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the lobbying firm that sent forged letters to House Democrats was working for a group that represents coal and electricity companies. The letters were made to look like they came from local advocacy groups, but they were signed by people who had nothing to do with the local groups.<\/p>\n<p>And what looked like one case now involves a\u00a0 dozen fraudulent letters sent to at least three members of Congress. Two of those members ended up opposing the clean energy legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Get more details in the Greenwire  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2009\/08\/04\/04greenwire-coal-industry-group-linked-to-a-dozen-forged-ca-2624.html\">story on the <em>New York Times<\/em> Web site<\/a>, and see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/public\/25\/12011\/features\/documents\/2009\/08\/04\/document_daily_03.pdf\">one of the forged letters [PDF]<\/a> on the Greenwire site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We told you the opposition was turning up the heat on the climate bill, but their efforts have reached a new low. 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