Martosko: Sierra Club took $26 million from natural gas lobby to battle coal industry

“How long will the Sierra Club’s grassroots members put up with this?”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/04/sierra-club-took-26-million-from-natural-gas-lobby-to-battle-coal-industry/#ixzz1lWhKBnJf
The Daily Caller‘s Dave Martosko writes:

… The Sierra Club launched its “Beyond Coal” campaign in 2001 on a shoestring budget, aiming to shut down as many coal-fired power plants as it could. McClendon’s money appears to have helped that campaign during a critical time when it was firing on all cylinders, lobbying against new power plant construction and working to close existing facilities, all the while hammering clean-coal advocates and blaming “big coal” for mercury pollution, asthma and assorted unforgivable ecological sins…

Read Martosko’s entire column.

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