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| Several citizen groups hope the new hotline will uncover the extent of oil and coal lobby abuses. Callers can report forgeries and staged events as well as other suspect activity. |
Lobbyists funded by the coal industry are under investigation for forging letters to Congress--going so far as to falsify and steal the letterhead of civil rights, senior, and other interest groups and send letters on their behalf to members of Congress. See Big oil suspected in fake letters to Congress in bid to block the ...
Recent weeks have also seen the American Petroleum Institute create a new front group in an effort to manufacture opposition to comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.
In response, the AAUW, National Wildlife Federation, NAACP, and Center for American Progress Action Fund and Sierra Club are joining forces to help average citizens blow the whistle on deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal tactics being perpetrated by big polluters and their lobbyists to strike down clean energy innovation. The tip line (866-363-4648) launched on September 3rd, 2009.
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