"Hypocrisy, thy name is Barack Obama.
The president has singled out industrialists Charles and David Koch for supposedly orchestrating a movement to undermine his agenda, especially the various "climate change" policies that he's pushing via unprecedented federal regulation.
..This makes it all the more notable that President Obama has failed to mention the actual coordinated campaign in favor of this agenda — a campaign coordinated with the White House.
This massive effort is laid out in a new report — "Private Interests and Public Office" — by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.
For the past year, E&E Legal used state and federal public-records requests to uncover whom the White House worked with to promote its environmental agenda, especially its newly unveiled "Clean Power Plan."
Yet EPA-funded models show that it will have no detectable impact on climate, if it has any impact at all.
E&E Legal unearthed documents showing systemic collusion to promote this scheme.
The coordination involves the White House, state governors and attorneys general, and a host of nongovernmental organizations affiliated with "major environmental donors" — especially billionaire Tom Steyer.
...They wanted to ensure that states governed by Republicans felt significant pressure to implement this dubious federal mandate.
They even hoped to "compel" utility companies operating across blue and red state lines to bring Republicans around.
This plan required hiring so-called "orchestrators" in key states.
These positions, underwritten by private benefactors, would be "closely tied to each governor."
Their ultimate goal was to organize state-based campaigns involving renewable-energy companies, nongovernmental organizations, state officeholders and more...
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