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AFX News Limited White House environment adviser's move to ExxonMobil criticized 06.16.2005, 03:14 AM
WASHINGTON (AFX) - Opposition Democrats criticized the administration of US President George W. Bush yesterday after it emerged a former top White House advisor on environmental issues, Philip Cooney, has taken a job with oil giant ExxonMobil Corp.
The news that Cooney had secured a job with the oil giant came days after he resigned as the chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality on Friday.
Prior to resigning his White House post, Cooney was involved in a controversy over the deletion of dire climate change warnings in US government reports.
Cooney has no scientific background and prior to taking up the environmental post at the White House he served as a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, an association of oil and energy firms.
The White House has said Cooney's resignation was 'completely unrelated' to the release of documents last week that showed Cooney had edited US government documents on global warming in what appeared to be an effort to water down climate change warnings.
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