US Virgin Islands AG gives Koch-funded climate deniers a taste of their own medicine
As the official legislative arm of – and surrogates for – the fossil fuel industry, Republicans have used the subpoena process to terrorize climate scientists for over six years. Their claim is always the same; the American people deserve to know exactly what those evil climate scientists are researching and why they are lying about the climate changing. Republicans also claim that Americans must be made aware that the scientific community is involved in a devious conspiracy to destroy America, the dirty fossil fuel industry, and rob decent Americans of their way of life.
Like most things about Republicans and the fossil fuel industry, particularly dirty oil, they are rank hypocrites. It is all well and proper for Republicans to use the subpoena process to terrorize and harass the scientific community, but if the tables are turned and the oil industry gets served with a subpoena, they cry and scream like banshees.
Apparently it acceptable for Republicans to use the subpoena process to investigate climate scientists, but it is an infringement on climate skeptics’ Constitutional rights if the government investigates the oil industry’s malfeasance.
That is precisely what happened when a Koch and ExxonMobil-funded organization that spent the past two decades denying any kind of climate change was served with a subpoena late last week. To say the least, the subpoena was not well-received by the oil industry activist because the ‘libertarian’ organization has a lot to hide, and eventually a lot of malfeasance to answer for.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/13/tables-turned-a-g-subpoenas-koch-related-climate-deniers-documents.html
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