Were anti-climate bill letters penciled in coal?

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A coal industry advocacy group has acknowledged that a contractor it hired later subcontracted a D.C.-based lobbying firm that then fired off a dozen falsified letters to congressional offices, pressuring a "nay" vote on a climate bill, The New York Times reported this week. The forged notes--designed to appear as if written by members of nonprofit groups--arrived before votes were cast on major clean energy legislation ; the House narrowly approved the bill on June 26. [More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=were-anti-climate-bill-letters-penc-2009-08-06)

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