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Milloy joined forces with Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Fred Palmer to create an activist shareholder group called Burn More Coal, established for the purpose of preventing the closure of coal-fired power plants. BMC’s motto includes the phrase, “Coal is Life.” [73]
The group filed a shareholder proposal with Duke Energy demanding an economic justification for the planned decommissioning of some of Duke's coal plants:
“What will be the actual benefit to anyone or anything of it? Global CO2 emissions are higher now than ever and increasing.” [73]
The move came as Duke plans to retire 14 coal plants by 2020 to comply with federal and state environmental regulations and under pressure from low natural gas prices and increasing demand for renewable energy. [73] 
In an interview with The Daily Caller, Palmer said:
“There is a cabal in the utility industry that wants to decarbonize independent of federal policy. It’s as if Al Gore were running the utility industry.” [73]
August 7, 2018
Milloy spoke at the Heartland Institute's “America First Energy Conference” (AFEC 2018) in New Orleans, Louisiana. [70]</div><div></div><div>drilled podcat</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Fred Palmer:</a>Fred Palmer, a career climate denier, ran the “ICE” campaign while at the <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/?s=western+fuels+association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Western Fuels Association</a>, a consortium of coal utilities and suppliers. He later worked as Peabody Coal’s Senior Vice President for Government Relations, before joining the climate denying <a href="https://climateinvestigations.org/?s=heartland+institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Heartland Institute</a> where he runs their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFroTKiEqE" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">coal campaign</a>. Palmer once said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">“every time you turn your car on, and you burn fossil fuels, and you put CO2 in the air, you are doing the work of the Lord.”</a> a sentiment he has <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">expressed repeatedly</a>.</div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer">https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer</a></div><div>
</div><div><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Palmer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 and Juris Doctorate with honors in 1969 from the University of Arizona. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Background</h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111210354/https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/media-advisory-fred-palmer-joins-the-heartland-institute-as-senior-fellow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fredrick D. Palmer </a>was the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111210221/http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016/01/coal-news-fred-palmer-joins-an-expanding-total-spectrum.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">senior vice president of government relations</a> for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peabody_Energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy Corporation</a> from 2001 to June 2015, also serving on the Executive Leadership Team until 2014.  Most recently he worked as Peabody's Special Advisor to the Office of Peabody's Executive Chairman before <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111210221/http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016/01/coal-news-fred-palmer-joins-an-expanding-total-spectrum.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">joining the public relations firm Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon and Associates</a> in January, 2016. In welcoming him to the team, Spectrum congratulated Palmer for a career where he “has excelled in coal, public policy and advocacy.” Fred Palmer was also a lobbyist for Peabody between 2005 and 2015 <a href="http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/ldsearch.aspx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to public lobbying disclosures</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [4]</a>In early 2017, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111210354/https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/media-advisory-fred-palmer-joins-the-heartland-institute-as-senior-fellow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Heartland Institute announced that Palmer would also be joining them as a senior fellow on energy and climate</a>. In his role at the Heartland Institute, Fred Palmer promises to espouse “the positive effects of enhanced atmospheric CO2 content on the biosphere” as well as emphasize “importance of fossil fuel energy to our quality of life.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Heartland Institute </a>has a long history of climate change denial and support for the fossil fuel industry and is known for its regular International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) where prominent climate change deniers gather to promote the idea that a debate still exists on the science behind man-made climate change. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>Before beginning his career at Peabody Energy, Palmer spent 15 years as the CEO and General Counsel of the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/western-fuels-association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Western Fuels Association (WFA)</a>, a coalition of coal-burning utilities that has long-worked to prevent attempts to regulate the coal industry to reduce fossil fuel emissions. He represented WFA on the board of directors of the National Mining Association where he served as chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, a position where he fought against limits in fossil fuel use in the U.S. In the early 1990s, Palmer also headed a <a href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/11FBD95382157280?p=NewsBank" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WFA effort to send targeted messages to farmers and legislators</a>, suggesting doubt existed on the effect of carbon dioxide on global warming. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Greening Earth Society (GES)</h3>Palmer was a past director of the now-defunct <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greening_Earth_Society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Greening Earth Society (GES)</a>, a front group that was controlled by the Western Fuels Association. GES had the stated mission of “advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use.” The group's “scientific advisors” featured a range of well-known industry-funded deniers such as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sallie Baliunas</a> and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Willie Soon</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>According to a November, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/ges-all-2-needs-re-scanning.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">1998 report by the Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR)</a> examining the Greening Earth Society and its related entities, Fred Palmer claimed he created the GES because the coal industry was “<a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1510958/thegreeningea01547.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">waging an uphill battle</a> against a well-funded environmental lobby that has coalesced around the scientifically unproven notion the earth may warm to cataclysmic proportions in the next century.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [8]</a>The CLEAR report notes that Greening Earth Society and Western Fuels “are essentially the same organization.” Both are located at the same office suite in Arlington, VA. They share Fred Palmer as leadership, several WFA board members serve as the board for GES, and they have the same “manager of communications and governmental affairs,” Both Ned Leonard and Fred Palmer served as registered lobbyists for Western Fuels Association at the time. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Informational Council for the Environment (ICE)</h3>Palmer's work with the Western Fuels Association goes all the way back to 1991, when he served as Vice President to the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/06/06/campaigns-tried-break-climate-science-consensus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Informational Council for the Environment (ICE)</a>, a small coalition of US coal companies that <a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=2950" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">devised a detailed PR campaign</a>to show that “evidence that the earth is warming is weak” and that proof that carbon dioxide was the primary cause was “non existent.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [10]</a><a href="http://www.wecenergygroup.com/about/management_team/bios/klappa_bio.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ICE's President </a>was <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/gale-klappa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gale Klappa</a> of the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Company" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Southern Company</a> and its “Science Advisory Panel” included prominent climate change skeptics <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert C. Balling, Jr.</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sherwood-b-idso" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sherwood B. Idso</a>, and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick J. Michaels</a>. As part of the group's plan to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact),” ICE proposed a number of advertising headlines such as: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [10]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The most serious problem with catastrophic global warming is– it may not be true.”“If the earth is getting warmer, why is Minneapolis getting colder?”“Who told you the earth was warming… Chicken Little?”“Some say the earth is warming. Some also said the earth was flat.”</blockquote>The <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4461&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=The%20Coal%20Industry%27s%20%22ICE%22%20Campaign%20(1999)" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ICE program was discontinued</a> after getting press coverage in a trade paper, The Energy Daily, as well as by The National Journal, The Arizona Republic and The New York Times.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [11]</a> Palmer has claimed that he disbanded ICE after becoming dissatisified with its PR approach.Nevertheless, Palmer of Western Fuels said in a 1999 letter: “It's unfortunate that ICE did not go forward” since the campaign did provoke a “dramatic turnaround in how people viewed the issue of global warming” before its demise. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a>View <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3119453-1991-Informed-Citizens-for-the-Environment.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">additional ICE documents and print ads here</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a>According to documents obtained by environmental group Ozone Action and journalist Ross Gelbspan, ICE messaging strategies included targeting “older, less educated males from larger households who are not typically active information seekers” and “younger, lower income women.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a>,  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Gale Klappa & ICE</h3><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/The-Climate-Deception-Dossiers.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">A 2015 report </a>by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-deception-dossiers-fossil-fuel-industry-memos#.WN7rpBPys1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Climate Deception Dossiers</a>, outlined some 85 internal company and trade association documents with details on how ICE had worked to guide the public's views on climate change. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s35" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[35]</a>Another report at the Energy & Policy Institute <a href="http://www.energyandpolicy.org/wisconsin-energy-ceo-gale-klappa-president-of-global-warming-misinformation-campaign/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">detailed the role of Gale Klappa</a>, whose role was not highlighted in the UCSreport. <a href="https://www.wecenergygroup.com/about/management_team/bios/klappa_bio.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gale E. Klappa</a> was then vice president at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Company" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Company, </a>and current non-executive Chairman of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wisconsin_Energy_Corporation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Energy Corporation</a> and now <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/03/24/chairman-gale-klappa-stays-atop-we-energies-parent.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">retired CEO</a> of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wisconsin_Energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">We Energies</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s36" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s37" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[37]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s38" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [38]</a>Back in 1991, Klappa was interviewed in a the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/08/business/pro-coal-ad-campaign-disputes-warming-idea.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times </a>article regarding the leaked ICE documents, saying:  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s36" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s39" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [39]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Those who are predicting catastrophe have been very effective at getting their message across in national media, and in so-called ‘public service’ announcements. But there is another viewpoint, a substantial viewpoint from a body of reputable scientists, and that viewpoint has really not been made available to a large majority,” Klappa told The New York Times in a telephone interview. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s36" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a></blockquote>Amy Jahns, Media Relations Specialist at We Energies, responded to Energy & Policy Institute writer Matt Kasper on how Klappa became involved in ICE. “Gale Klappa served as president of the ICE board more than 25 years ago,” she said, going on to present Wisconsin Energy's emission control investments and reductions. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s36" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a>Fred Palmer reported that he had been initially approached by Gale Klappa, then of Southern Company, and Fred Lukens, of Minnkota Power regarding what would become ICE. Palmer recalled in an <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">interview with </a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">DeSmog</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"> “I went to my board not long after the Hansen presentation, probably in 1990, and I said, you know, these coal plants have the most CO2 coming out of them than anywhere else. It was the top of the food chain, I called it. The board agreed. The board said I could go on the ICE board, so I did.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>Palmer said he quickly became “dissatisfied” with the approach of ICE. “I didn’t think it was a PR issue. I thought it was a scientific educational issue,” he said.<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I have always been about education, but I was chair (of ICE) and […] I looked at it and I said ‘I don’t like this’ and so we got out of ICE and it was abandoned and Western Fuels started the Greening Earth Society.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>March, 2015Fred Palmer is one of the authors of a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Comments-of-Peabody-Energy-Corp%20%28downloaded%20July%203%2C%202015%29.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy submission to the White House (PDF)</a> arguing that <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/07/14/peabody-energy-white-house-climate-change-greenhouse-gas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">greenhouse gasses are a “non-existent harm” </a>and a “benign gas that is essential to all life:” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a>The document declares: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“While the benefits of carbon dioxide are proven, the alleged risks of climate change are contrary to observed data, are based on admitted speculation, and lack adequate scientific basis,” the document reads. </blockquote>2000In an PBS Frontline Interview (undated, but probably taking place around 2000), Palmer outlined some of his views on climate change: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“[T]he science to me–and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer–the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all. So I would concede that reasonable people are concerned, but to me the concerns are speculation and not based on observations or on any scientific mechanism that they can point to. “</blockquote>December, 1998In a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170113195117/https://www.pop.org/content/so-what-about-global-warming" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">1998 piece at the Population Research Institute</a>, Palmer reiterates the <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">common myth that climate has changed before</a>, hence man-made climate change need not be worried about (he goes on to cite climate change deniers <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sallie Baliunas</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Balling</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roy W. Spencer</a>, and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick J. Michaels</a> in his defense): <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s17" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [17]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The Vice President is correct when he intones that 'the greenhouse effect,' is real. Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere (primarily water vapor) make life on earth possible. They act as a thermal blanket, trapping heat radiated by the sun before it is re-radiated from earth’s surface back into space. 'The greenhouse effect' is not the issue.What about 'global warming?' What matters is the degree and rate of change. There have been times on earth when it has been much warmer than today, and times when it’s been much colder. The latter are called ice ages. One of the former is called 'The Climate Optimum.' It was a time of higher average global temperature and high CO2.”Palmer concludes, “So, the global warming issue is not about the reality of the greenhouse effect, or CO, as a pollutant. It lacks a foundation in scientific observation or empiricism.”</blockquote>He goes on to cite the Western Fuels Association video, The Greening of Planet Earth which emphases the “less understood and under-appreciated” benefits of “rising CO2, and its potential for helping feed a hungry world.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a>October, 1998Writing in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060712030017/http://www.nma.org/about_us/publications/pub_co2_pollutant.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">report commissioned by the National Mining Association</a> with the stated goal of evaluating the EPA's authority to regulate CO2 emissions, Palmer declares:<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [18]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.”</blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Quotes</h2>January 31, 2018Following President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s State of the Union Address, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180205180452/https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartland-institute-experts-react-to-president-trumps-state-of-the-union-address" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Palmer said in a statement</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s52" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[52]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“President Trump’s State of the Union Address was a five star performance last night across the board, and his energy comments were oxygen in the room after eight years of deficiency under President Obama. In Obama’s second term, he and the Democratic Party decided Americans would not be able to use fossil fuels at all after 2050. By doing so, they stifled an economy the Trump administration has turned loose, benefitting all Americans. President Trump is on the path to becoming a great president because he embraces the fulsome use of fossil fuels, including ‘beautiful, clean coal’. Thank you, Mr. President.”</blockquote>December 2, 2017<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Coal is not dirty. Coal is green. And I say that because coal is electricity, and electricity at the point of use is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy,” Palmer said at the Heartland Institute's America First energy conference. “Coal is green. It is not dirty, because of electrification. CO2 is a benign gas required for life on Earth and is not dirty.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s53" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[53]</a></blockquote>He concluded:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“It's not dirty; it's green. It's electricity. Electricity is life. Coal is life.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s53" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[53]</a></blockquote>October 9, 2017Following EPA administrator <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/Scott-Pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Pruitt</a>'s announcement that the Trump administration would be scrapping the Clean Power Plan, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171010212531/https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartland-institute-experts-react-to-epa-scrapping-the-clean-power-plan" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Palmer issued the following statement</a> via the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s42" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[42]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The 2015 Clean Power Plan was one of President Barack Obama’s signature efforts to eliminate coal-based electricity. Administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency will pull back the Clean Power Plan is fantastic news for all Americans. Our society has enjoyed success because of its past commitment to free-market economics and fossil fuels, not in spite of them.“The 'regulate CO2' push will focus 'inside the fence' on existing plants by trying to force the use of very expensive technology, but CO2 is a benign gas required for life on Earth, so there would be no commensurate environmental improvement under any CO2 regulatory regime.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s42" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[42]</a></blockquote>January, 2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Speaking with DeSmog's Graham Readfearn</a> in an interview, Fred Palmer described burning fossil fuels as being part of a “divine plan”: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“It’s hard not to concede that coal hasn’t been put on Earth and other fossil fuels as part of a divine plan,” Palmer said. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>On global warming, Palmer declared: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“There are no observations that we have been having catastrophic global warming — it’s sophistry. […]” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>May, 2015In a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170113222927/http://www.virginiacoalenergy.com/2015-presentation/tuesday/4-FDP%20Virginia%20Coal%20%20Energy%20Alliance_051515.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">presentation to Peabody Energy titled “A Message for COP21,”</a> Fred Palmer advocates for “clean coal”: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s20" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Clean coal offers the technology path forward to achieve our goals for human development and environmental improvement.”</blockquote>March, 2011In an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="blank">interview with</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="blank"> </a>The Guardian, Fred Palmer declared: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“We're 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere. All the time.”“We don't have a political allegiance,” he said. “We're Americans and our political party is coal.”</blockquote>Discussing whether renewables were impacting coal use, Palmer said:  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“There are billions of people on earth who don't have any electricity at all and a couple billion people who don't have adequate access to electricity. The thing that people don't understand about energy is scale. You can make it with a windmill, or solar, or biomass, but you can't do without coal. It's just maths: more people living longer, living better. It's not complicated.”</blockquote>Asked about whether Peabody would question the science of climate change, Palmer said “I'm no there to talk about the science.  I would agree, though, that we do disagree with the EPA's endangerment findings.” He went on to cite the debunked ClimateGate as a reason for doubting the science:  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The EPA has to follow the law and it has to follow the facts. And it relied on facts that were thrown into question by the hacked climate science emails. So we asked for a re-opening of the docket for them to consider the emails. The EPA didn't do that. We didn't say that 'Climategate' establishes this, or establishes that. What it says is that it casts doubt on your fact-finding.” </blockquote>October, 2009<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-altman/climate-denier-defends-th_b_329006.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Huffington Post reports </a>that Fred Palmer defended the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's policy-making process in the wake of criticism by Nike, which left the Chamber's board of directors. Palmer <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/06/06greenwire-hot-button-climate-issue-spotlights-how-us-cha-24103.html?pagewanted=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">spoke with The New York Times' Greenwire</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s22" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s41" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[41]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I have never seen an instance where there has been an effort to limit debate and discussion,” said Fred Palmer who was also a member of the Chamber's Board of Directors. “To the extent people feel their voice is not being heard at the chamber, it’s not the chamber’s fault.”</blockquote>2000 (Approx.)Fred Palmer was featured in an <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/palmer.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">PBS interview on global warming</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“We are at the top of the food chain insofar as CO2 emissions are concerned. So if you get in the business of limiting CO2 emissions, of taxing CO2 emissions, of creating a value in CO2 emissions where people trade them in this emissions trading scheme, you go to the coal plants first because of the fact that that's the greatest source –single source–of CO2 that there is.”“[T]he science to me–and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer–the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all.”“[T]he precautionary principle might say that we should put more CO2 in the air to prevent CO2 levels from being driven down to such low levels in the future by an ice age that it extinguishes plant life. And there are scientists that believe this.”</blockquote>December 1, 1998Fred Palmer wrote an article in the Population Research Institute's PRI Review (v9, n1) titled ”<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111225735/https://www.pop.org/content/so-what-about-global-warming" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">So, what about this global warming?</a>” In his opinion piece, Palmer promotes the fuels of the Western Fuels Association. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Carbon dioxide is no pollutant; it is the foundation of life on earth,” Palmer writes. Describing his work with the Western Fuels Association, Palmer says “We work in the public interest from end-to-end.”</blockquote>In the same piece, Palmer declares that we should shift our focus from combatting climate change to working to address poverty: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Who are we to deny them [the poor] the ability to lift themselves up by effective harnessing of God’s creation in fossil fuels, as we have been able to do, or to arbitrarily and artificially constrain their numbers?” Palmer asks. “This question, fundamentally, is the substance of climate change issue before the United Nations.”</blockquote>1997Fred Palmer was quoted in a 1997 documentary titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9kanvxa6A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Staking the Globe- The Energy War is on!</a>” by Danish journalists Poul Erik Heilbuth and Hans Bulow, Palmer said emitting carbon dioxide was “Doing God's Work”: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s23" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“You're doing God's work. Every time you turn your car on, and you burn fossil fuels, and you put CO2 in the air, you're doing the work of the lord. Absolutely. That's the system, the ecological system we live in.”[...guard uk]</blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Look, I don't know. I'm in a lot of books from the 1990s from those coal advocacy days. Whatever people have said, they've said. I'm not going to go there. I don't know the reference or the context.”</blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Deeds</h2>August 7, 2018Palmer <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180801204507/http://americafirstenergy.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">spoke </a>at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180723222403/http://americafirstenergy.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America First Energy Conference</a>” (AFEC 2018) in New Orleans, Louisiana. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s54" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[54]</a>“The purpose of this event is to promote and expand energy freedom in the United States, as outlined in President Donald Trump’s bold America First Energy Plan, a proposal first released during the 2016 presidential campaign. The president’s plan marks a decisive change in direction from the Obama administration’s 'war on fossil fuels' and focus on the theory of catastrophic man-caused climate change,” the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180723222403/http://americafirstenergy.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">conference description reads</a>.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s55" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [55]</a>Palmer <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180801223001/http://americafirstenergy.org/Speaker/fred-palmer/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">spoke o</a>n a panel titled “The Future of Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s56" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[56</a>][2 vids ...]Coal is not dirty. Coal is green. And I say that because coal is electricity, and electricity at the point of use is the cleanest, most efficient form of energy,” Palmer said. He reiterated,  “Coal is green. It is not dirty, because of electrification. CO2 is a benign gas required for life on Earth and is not dirty.”<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“CO2 is implicated in this because of the endangerment finding which has to go, period,” Palmer added, pointing to Heartland studies authored by research fellow<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/isaac-orr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Isaac Orr</a>. “Every day that goes by that endangerment's in place, American society is at risk” and that “if we go down this path that we've been on, our rates will be what they are in California.”  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s53" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[53]</a></blockquote>Palmer concluded by asking for donations to push out the reports:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Political outcomes matter a bunch. Praise the Lord that we have Donald Trump in the Whitehouse, absolutely. We need to support this agenda, but we need to do it in a pro-people way, not in a hostile way, not in an angry way. But to put out business fact and show to the American people why coal is so important. It's not dirty; it's green. It's electricity. Electricity is life. Coal is life.”</blockquote>November 9, 2017Fred Palmer promoted the Heartland Institute’s “<a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America First Energy Conference</a>,” according to a fundraising letter obtained by DeSmog. Palmer also <a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/cr3ativspeaker/frederick-palmer/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">moderated a panel on “The Future of Coal”</a> at the conference on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at the J.W. Marriott Galleria Hotel in Houston, Texas. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s43" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a>, [<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s48" style="text-decoration-line: none;">48]</a>Speakers on the panel included Health Lovell of Alliance Coal and Bernard Weinstein of Southern Methodist University: [vid]According to Palmer's fundraising letter, the conference planned to “review the scientific and economic evidence that exposes the fraud inherent in the Obama-era regulation regime” while discussing “the overwhelming benefits of fossil fuels to us all.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s43" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"> “In particular, we are inviting state legislators, think tank leaders, energy executives, Trump administration political appointees and staff, and policy analysts who write and speak on environment and energy topics,” Palmer said in the letter. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s43" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a></blockquote>Listed “VIP speakers” included Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Joe Craft, CEO of<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_Resource_Partners" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Alliance Resource Partners </a>and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s43" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a>As <a href="http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Trump-officials-speaking-at-Houston-conference-12324218.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported at the Houston Chronicle</a>, speakers notably included two Trump Administration officials: Richard W. Westerdale II of the State Department and Vincent DeVito of the Department of Interior. David Bernhardt, deputy secretary of the Interior Department, was also formerly listed as a Heartland conference speaker, but apparently withdrew. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s49" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[49]</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Pruitt</a> also addressed the conference in a recorded video, personally thanking Heartland for “what you're doing to advance energy” and “for what you're doing to advance natural resources. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s50" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[50]</a>The Climate Investigations Center <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/america-first-energy-conference-stacked-climate-change-deniers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">put up a parody of the America First Energy conference website</a>, complete with profiles on the individual speakers and highlighting their corporate funding and ties to groups such as the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cooler-heads-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC)</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s51" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[51]</a>Other <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171011023055/http://americafirstenergy.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">speakers include</a> many of the climate change deniers who regularly speak at Heartland's ICCCs including<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/joseph-bast" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Joe Bast</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Bezdek</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/h-sterling-burnett" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">H. Sterling Burnett</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/harold-doiron" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hal Doiron</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> Paul Driessen</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-dale-dunn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Dale Dunn</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/myron-ebell" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a>, Heartland's new President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/tim-huelskamp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tim Huelskamp</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-idso" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Craig Idso</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Legates</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/jay-h-lehr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jay Lehr</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/anthony-lupo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Anthony Lupo</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ross-mckitrick" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ross McKitrick</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/steve-milloy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Milloy</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/todd-myers" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Todd Myers</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-nothdurft" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Nothdurt</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-schnare" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Schnare</a>, and numerous others. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s44" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[44]</a>October 12, 2017Palmer commented on President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s appointment of <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kathleen Hartnett-White</a> as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/13/trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-ceq" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)</a>, pending approval. Palmer was quoted in a October 13 Heartland Institute newsletter: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s45" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[45]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality is great news for the American people. The CEQ role over the years has been significant in leading the way on environmental issues under the National Environmental Policy Act in its advisory capacity to the president and to all federal agencies.[JH1]  Under the Obama administration, CEQ was used as a vehicle to eliminate the use of fossil fuels. Those days are over. The White nomination to this crucial post illustrates the seriousness of President Trump and his administration in moving the needle in favor of the American people and against radical environmentalism,” Palmer said. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s46" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[46]</a></blockquote>Hartnett-White has a history of representing fossil fuel interests. During her tenure as chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), appointed by then-governor <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rick-perry" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rick Perry</a>, the TCEQ was found to “not consistently ensure violators are held accountable.” According to a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171013175858/https://www.sao.texas.gov/Reports/Main/04-016.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2003 Texas State Audit</a>, polluters “often have economic benefits that exceed their penalties, which could reduce their incentive to comply.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s47" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[47]</a>As head of the CEQ, Hartnett-White would be in charge of coordinating interagency science, climate, and environmental policy and oversee things such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)</a> review process and agency compliance with that law. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s45" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[45]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Though CEQ oversees the NEPA process, it remains unclear how seriously Hartnett-White will take the NEPA review process, for decades seen as a bedrock of U.S. environmental regulation since NEPA became law in 1970,” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/13/trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-ceq" style="text-decoration-line: none;">DeSmog's Steve Horn reported</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s45" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[45]</a></blockquote>January 29, 2017<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">DeSmogBlog interviewed Fred Palmer</a>. During the interview, Palmer defended the Heartland Institute where he had recently joined as a senior fellow. Where many question fossil fuel funding as a potential source for conflicts of interest, Palmer had no such worries: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Maybe they do [despise that kind of activity]. But they don’t understand life and they don’t understand advocacy. I can’t help that […] I am reaching out to the fossil fuel community right now and raising money for Heartland,” he said.  “Of course that’s acceptable.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>Back in 1997, Palmer had described how adding CO2 to the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels was part of “doing the work of the Lord.” Speaking with DeSmog, his views seem to have remained much the same: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“It’s hard not to concede that coal hasn’t been put on Earth and other fossil fuels as part of a divine plan. Because it’s easy to get to, it’s here and more people live better and longer from it, I believe that. I’m not terribly religious but I’m a believer in Christ and all of those things. But I’m relaxed about it.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>Readfearn noted that Palmer's views on climate change hadn't changed much since the 1990s:   <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“There are no observations that we have been having catastrophic global warming — it’s sophistry,” Palmer declared in the interview. “It’s an agenda driven by lawyers who make their own facts and make up their own laws and that was called the Obama administration. [Former vice president Al] Gore would have been the same way if he had been in power.”  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>Speaking on the Trump presidency, Palmer had great hopes of it being “an historical presidency”:  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“I have been in and around Washington, D.C a long time. It’s an exciting time in our development and I think Donald Trump will succeed,” said Palmer. “This town still doesn’t. We are going to have eight years of Donald Trump and then eight years of President Pence so get ready. Then tell me what D.C. looks like after that period.”  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s40" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></blockquote>November, 2015<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170113225359/http://www.brinknews.com/setting-a-path-for-coal-in-climate-change-goals/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Writing at Brink News,</a> Fred Palmer claims that COP21's policymakers need to focus on propelling new coal technologies as opposed to relying on renewables: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Climate goals and economic growth will likely not be met without equitable governmental support for advanced coal technologies such as CCUS [carbon capture, utilization and storage],” Palmer writes.“If the world is to achieve CO2 emission goals, wherever they are set, the key approach cannot be attempting to replace fossil fuels, but rather addressing the CO2 emissions from the use of them. COP21 conferees should acknowledge the foundational role coal will continue to play in the world’s energy mix and take action to assure technologies will be developed and deployed to keep emissions in line with climate action goals.”</blockquote>March 24, 2015Fred Palmer, serving as Senior Vice President of Government Relations at Peabody Energy, is listed as one of the authors in a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Comments-of-Peabody-Energy-Corp%20%28downloaded%20July%203%2C%202015%29.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy submission to the White House (PDF)</a> arguing that <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/07/14/peabody-energy-white-house-climate-change-greenhouse-gas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">greenhouse gasses are a “non-existent harm” </a>and a “benign gas that is essential to all life:” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“While the benefits of carbon dioxide are proven, the alleged risks of climate change are contrary to observed data, are based on admitted speculation, and lack adequate scientific basis,” reads the document's introduction.</blockquote>DeSmog investigated the submission and found that of the 304 footnote citations in the Peabody document, opinion articles published in media outlets, primarily the Wall Street Journal, were cited as supporting evidence 41 times and groups with historical ties to the fossil fuel industry such as the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cato Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a> and the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> were cited 64 times. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s24" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a>August 21, 2014Fred Palmer addressed an industry gathering in St. Louis,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150524002335/http://aimo.com/2014/08/21/business-leaders-gather-for-discussion-on-the-epas-clean-power-plan" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> speaking of the EPA's Clean Power Plan and how they, Peabody and others in the energy industry, would “win”</a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“We have to win this argument on the merits,” Palmer said. “To win means to advance the use of the resource through the use of technology, and to stress what these policies will do to the middle class and the people of lesser means. You just can’t do that to people.”</blockquote>According to Palmer, there are “well-funded” groups trying to put Peabody Energy out of business through emissions legislation: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s25" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda […] that want to get into your pocketbooks,” said Palmer. “They want to sell you the high-priced spread, and to do that, they’ve got to take out (Ameren Missouri’s) power plants, and they have to get people to quit using my product.”</blockquote>July 29, 2014Fred Palmer delivered <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/235382157/EPA-Hearing-Testimony-FDP-072914" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy's official response to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules</a>. In his EPA hearing testimony, Palmer opposes emissions reductions that would deal with what he dismisses as “climate theory.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s26" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [26]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Peabody has a profound disagreement with EPA’s approach on carbon under the Clean Air Act. We are opposed to any proposal that would punish electricity consumers, have no material benefit under climate theory and act outside the bounds of the law,” Palmer wrote in his testimony. “This proposal must be withdrawn.”</blockquote>Palmer writes that “EPA’s proposal is symbolic at best and would have no significant benefit under climate theory,” claiming that even shutting down all of America's coal plants “would result in a 1/20th of one degree temperature change.” He goes on to propose an alternative of investment in research and development, including carbon capture, as an alternative to emissions reductions.The <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/peabodys-improbable-history" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) published a post that debunks Fred Palmer's claims</a>, point-by-point. Some key excerpts below: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s27" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[27]</a>Fred Palmer's Claim #1: “Using coal for electricity enables people to live longer and better and drives the lowest U.S.electricity costs for any major fuel,” while EPA's proposed power plan “would endanger human health and welfare by making electricity—one of life’s necessities—scarce and expensive.”NRDC Response #1: “In fact, because money-saving energy efficiency is a central strategy under EPA’s emissions reduction plan, EPA projects that the average American household’s electric bill will go down, not up. […] And while electricity improves our lives, getting electricity from coal cuts thousands of lives short every year.”Fred Palmer's Claim #2: “[P]erhaps the most extreme and disturbing example' of what might happen to the country, Palmer’s testimony continued, “is California, a state the EPA lauds as its energy model.” “California has exacerbated energy inequality and turned away business based on high renewable [energy] mandates and energy taxes,” Palmer claimed. “California power prices are 40 percent higher than the U.S. average. Businesses are exiting at a 3:1 ratio, and 700,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2000. Is this really our model?” Palmer asked.NRDC Response #2: “California’s electricity costs slightly more per kilowatt hour than the national average. But residential and industrial electricity bills — what customers actually pay each month —are well below the national average. […] It’s true that California lost 700,000 manufacturing jobs, but that’s in line with the 6 million manufacturing jobs the whole country lost between 2000 and 2009, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics – since one out of eight Americans lives in California, the manufacturing job trend there pretty much mirrors the national trend.” Fred Palmer's Claim #3: Palmer worried of the impact of EPA’s standards on the “record 115 million Americans [who] qualify for energy assistance and 48 million Americans [who] live in poverty.” NRDC Response #3: NRDC checked with experts on whether Peabody Energy had ever lobbied on behalf of the low-income energy assistance program called LIHEAP or the federal weatherization program. “I don’t think they see LIHEAPor Weatherization as central to their mission,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association, which pushes for energy assistance programs. “There’s no evidence of oil companies or coal companies trying to keep LIHEAP or Weatherization going,” said Wolfe, who called Palmer’s assertion about EPA’s standards and poor people’s energy prices “tortured.”While Palmer did not declare them at the hearing, NRDC also debunked some of Palmer's other frequent claims for the benefits of coal, including the idea that crops would grow better with more CO2 emissions (a view Palmer promoted during his time at the Western Fuels Association). They also look at Palmer's claim that coal is the best answer for energy needs in developing countries, a strategy that the NRDC says is “a recipe for the choking, blinding air pollution that afflicts mega-cities like Beijing and Delhi, cutting years off millions of people’s lives.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s27" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[27]</a>January 4, 2000As reported in a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/ges-all-2-needs-re-scanning.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">1998 Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) report (PDF)</a>, The Greening Earth Society issued a Press Release announced a merger of Environment News, formerly a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute </a>publication, with World Climate Report, a biweekly newsletter funded by Greening Earth Society and Published by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/New_Hope_Environmental_Services" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New Hope Environmental Services</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a>The merger was co-announced by the Greening Earth society and The Heartland Institute (the original publisher of Environment News since it launched in June, 1997). <blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“This agreement enables us to deliver the latest science and commentary on the global climate change issue to thousands of additional people,” said Fred Palmer, president of Greening Earth Society. </blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Most Americans don’t realize that the scientific community has grave doubts about whether human activities cause ‘global warming’ and what the proper course of action should be. We’re making up for the poor job that television stations and newspapers have done conveying the truth about the global temperature record and the benefits of rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (C02).” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></blockquote>December, 1998In a 1998 piece at the Population Research Institute, Palmer reiterates the <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">common myth that climate has changed before</a>.<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“What about 'global warming?' What matters is the degree and rate of change. There have been times on earth when it has been much warmer than today, and times when it’s been much colder. The latter are called ice ages. One of the former is called 'The Climate Optimum.' It was a time of higher average global temperature and high CO2.”</blockquote>Palmer mentions the Western Fuels Association video, The Greening of Planet Earth which emphases the “less understood and under-appreciated” benefits of “rising CO2, and its potential for helping feed a hungry world.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Who are we to deny them the ability to lift themselves up by effective harnessing of God’s creation in fossil fuels, as we have been able to do, or to arbitrarily and artificially constrain their numbers?” Palmer asks. “This question, fundamentally, is the substance of climate change issue before the United Nations.”</blockquote>After citing prominent climate change deniers including <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Sallie Baliunas</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Balling</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roy W. Spencer</a>, and <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick J. Michaels</a>, Palmer concludes:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“So, the global warming issue is not about the reality of the greenhouse effect, or CO, as a pollutant. It lacks a foundation in scientific observation or empiricism.”</blockquote>October 12, 1998Fred palmer is a co-author of a report for the National Mining Association (NMA) with Peter Glaser, Harold P. Quinn, Jr. and Bradford V. Frisby titled “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060712030017/http://www.nma.org/about_us/publications/pub_co2_pollutant.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">CO2: A Pollutant?</a>” The report argues against the Kyoto Protocol and suggests that evidence does not exist for man-made climate change. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, “the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.”</blockquote>The report was requested by the National Mining Association in order to “evaluate EPA's authority to regulate” CO2emissions. “the Committee's report and analysis […] concludes that, contrary to EPA's claim, the agency lacks authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s18" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a>September 23, 1998The <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/ges-all-2-needs-re-scanning.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Greening Earth Society issued a press release</a> announcing The Center's new website. In the release, Fred Palmer, representing the Greening Earth Society said, “The Center's viewpoint is a needed antidote to the misleading and usually erroneous scientific claims emanating from the Federal scientific establishment and adopted by leading politicians, such as Vice President A1 Gore.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a>January, 1998<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19981202175916/http://basinelectric.com/news/greening.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">According to news from Basin Electric</a>, a Western Fuels Association member, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-idso" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Craig Idso</a> produced a report, “The Greening of Planet Earth — Its Progression from Hypothesis to Theory,” in January 1998 for the Western Fuels Association. Fred Palmer said nearly 20,000 copies of that tape have been circulated “helping to ensure that this scientific work was not overlooked when countries considered climate change policy,” the undated Basin Electric news piece wrote. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s28" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a>Fred Palmer also praised the Idsos for their work: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s28" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“They (Craig and Keith Idso) each are providing valuable service to the army of scientists at work in this important, though often overlooked, field of inquiry,” Palmer said. </blockquote>1990sPalmer, then working as a lobbyist for the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/western-fuels-association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Western Fuels Association (WFA) </a>founded the Greening Earth Society (GES), which was one of the first industry groups to promote misinformation about climate change,<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/19/the-truth-behind-peabodys-campaign-to-rebrand-coal-as-a-poverty-cure" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> reports </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/19/the-truth-behind-peabodys-campaign-to-rebrand-coal-as-a-poverty-cure" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Guardian</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s29" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[29]</a>The the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050308200600/www.greeningearthsociety.org/join.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">GES described itself as “a vehicle for advocacy on climate change</a>, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use” and openly declared that the “bulk of our financial support comes from rural electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities, and their fuel suppliers, including Western Fuels Association, Inc.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s30" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a>In 1991, the Western Fuels Association launched another initiative titled the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/06/06/campaigns-tried-break-climate-science-consensus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Informational Council on the Environment (ICE)</a>, a small coalition of US Coal companies that <a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=2950" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">devised a detailed PR campaign</a> to show that “evidence that the earth is warming is weak” and to suggest that evidence for CO2-caused warming was “non existent.” Palmer served as the Vice President of ICE, before the group was discontinued after receiving unwanted press coverage. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon and Associates — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111210221/http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2016/01/coal-news-fred-palmer-joins-an-expanding-total-spectrum.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Partner</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peabody_Energy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy </a>— Former Senior Vice President of Government Relations.  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/us-chamber-commerce" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120820222256/http://www.uschamber.com/about/board" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Former Member,  Board of Directors.</a> <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s31" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[31]</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a> — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170111214827/https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/frederick-d-palmer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Senior Fellow on energy and climate</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Coal_Council" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Coal Council (NCC)</a>— <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160215191235/http://nationalcoalcouncil.org/page-NCC-Leadership.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Former Chair, Coal Policy Committee</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s32" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[32]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Mining_Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">National Mining Association (NMA)</a> — Former Chair of the Climate Change Task Force and legal committee. Formerly WFA's representative on the Board of Directors. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a>,  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greening_Earth_Society" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Greening Earth Society (GES) </a>— Former Member, Board of Directors. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/information-council-environment" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Information Council for the Environment (ICE) </a>— Former Chairman.  <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></li><li>World Coal Association — Former Member, Board of Directors (Representing Peabody Energy). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li><li>FutureGen Alliance — Former Board Member (until June, 2015). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li><li>GreenCoal Solutions LLC — Principal. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s19" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></li><li>Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer — Former Partner, specializing in  utility, environmental, and resource law.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></li><li>Shook Hardy & Bacon — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060221064417/http://www.peabodyenergy.com/Profile/ManagementTeam.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Former Counsel</a>. [<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s33" style="text-decoration-line: none;">33]</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FutureGen_Alliance" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FutureGen Alliance </a>— <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160221211406/http://futuregenalliance.org/the-alliance/organization-and-structure/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Board Member at Large, as of 2016</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer#s34" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[34]</a></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Resources</h2></div><div>=wow grafix<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/08/06/doing-lord-s-work-heartland-institute-gathers-climate-deniers-america-first-energy-conference">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/08/06/doing-lord-s-work-heartland-institute-gathers-climate-deniers-america-first-energy-conference</a><div class="new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 15px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;">
</div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">One of the world’s most notorious climate science denial groups — the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a> — will gather its supporters and fellow ideologues this week for a one-day <a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">energy conference</a> in Louisiana.Aside from the conference’s fanatical devotion to fossil fuels, the line-up includes the usual pushers of junk science who are sure that every major science academy in the world is wrong about the dangers of adding CO2 to the atmosphere.Gathering at the conference will be “hundreds of state and national elected officials, think tank leaders, and policy analysts.”Front and center in New Orleans will be <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fred-palmer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fred Palmer</a>, a veteran coal industry lobbyist who was behind what was <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">probably the very first fossil-fuel funded attacks on the science</a> linking coal burning to dangerous climate change. After more than 30 years with the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/western-fuels-association" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Western Fuels Association</a> and then coal giant Peabody, Palmer now spends his time as a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute. Shortly after <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> won the U.S. Presidency, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/01/climate-science-denial-group-heartland-institute-fossil-fuel-industry-funding-fred-palmer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Palmer told DeSmog</a> that he would be “reaching out to the fossil fuel community” for cash to fund the institute. This would be added to the more than $5 million the institute has received from major Trump financial backer <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-mercer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Mercer</a>, the hedge fund billionaire whose daughter <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/rebekah-mercer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rebekah Mercer</a> was a key member of the President’s transition team.Given the backing of the Mercers, it’s perhaps not surprising that Heartland has borrowed the title of Trump’s energy policy in holding its “<a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">America First Energy Conference</a>.”A favorite talking point from climate science deniers around the world — including those at the Heartland Institute — is that governments and scientists around the world have adopted climate science as a new “green religion” and it’s this fanaticism that is clouding their judgment.Heartland likes to pitch global warming as “<a href="https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/global-warming-facts-vs-faith" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">facts vs faith</a>,” as a “<a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/tomorrows-grim-global-green-dictatorship" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">green religion</a>,” and to tell its followers that <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/leaving-the-church-of-environmentalism" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">environmentalism is like a church</a> where climate change is the <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/noaas-flood-and-the-new-religion-of-climate-change" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">new religion</a>.This is a curious position to take, when you compare it to the beliefs of Fred Palmer and other speakers at the Heartland conference. Quite literally, they believe that coal was put there by a god for humans to use.“It’s hard not to concede that coal hasn’t been put on Earth and other fossil fuels as part of a divine plan,” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/29/25-years-ago-fred-palmer-kick-started-first-fossil-fuel-funded-campaigns-attack-climate-science" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Palmer has told DeSmog</a>.In July 2018, Palmer gave a speech to the <a href="http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Western Conservative Summit</a> in Colorado. In audio obtained by DeSmog, Palmer says of Heartland’s efforts on climate change: “We are, I know, doing the Lord’s work.”But this literal religious zeal is not restricted to Palmer at Heartland’s conference this week.One session — titled <a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/Session/panel-1a-why-co2-emissions-are-not-creating-a-climate-crisis/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Why CO2 Emissions are not a climate crisis</a> — includes panelists Dr. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Spencer</a> and Professor <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Legates</a>, who are both old hands at pushing back on all that green religion.In 2015, Legates was <a href="https://cornwallalliance.org/greenerontheotherside-speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">featured in a series of videos attacking climate science</a> and environmentalism produced by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</a>.“There has to be a designer — a creator behind this to make something as complex as it is, yet as robust as it is,” <a href="https://youtu.be/S9Nk3svw0ME" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">says Legates</a>.“To be a true Christian means you have to believe and understand what we are being taught through the Bible and through God’s word.”Scheduled beside Legates on the Heartland Institute panel is Dr. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Spencer</a> of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Spencer <a href="http://theevolutioncrisis.org.uk/testimony2.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">once wrote</a> that he had analyzed Biblical claims that “the universe and all life within it had been created by some greater intelligent Being, not by mere chance.”His conclusion? The “theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution.”There are many well-credentialed climate scientists who are also people of faith. But the argument from denialists that climate scientists are blinded by their own faith in a “climate change religion,” belies their own quite literal belief that they are doing the work of god.As a presumably god-given debating tactic, it’s as flawed as their science.</div></div></div>=</div><div>===</div><div>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coal-trump-monuments-review_us_5a3dbe56e4b06d1621b46552</div><div>
</div><div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="1" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">WASHINGTON — This month, on the recommendation of his Interior secretary, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-national-monuments-utah-proclomation_us_5a25478ee4b03350e0b7fa85" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">gutted a pair of protected national monuments in Utah</a>, including coal-rich Grand Staircase-Escalante. The decision followed the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-bears-ears-review_us_59f39ffbe4b03cd20b81b2f1" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">controversial review of more than two dozen national monuments</a> ― a process that public records reveal to have been overseen by the daughter of Frederick Palmer, the former executive of coal giant Peabody Energy and a current <a href="https://preview.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us_5a399220e4b06d1621b0427b/Downey%20Magallanes" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">senior fellow</a> at the conservative Heartland Institute. </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/downey-magallanes-4b4ba06" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Downey Magallanes</a>, Palmer’s daughter, is a 2012 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center who worked for seven years as a staffer for Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and now serves as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s deputy chief of staff for policy. Magallanes was at Zinke’s side throughout his months-long monuments review. And <a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-01076ca_compressed.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">her personal calendar</a> shows she had several one-on-one meetings with Zinke to discuss the review in the days before Aug. 24, when Zinke submitted his draft report to the White House. </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">A version of that report was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/shrink-at-least-4-national-monuments-and-modify-a-half-dozen-others-zinke-tells-trump/2017/09/17/a0df45cc-9b48-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152_story.html?utm_term=.d29ce562f681" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">leaked</a> to the media in September, and the Interior Department <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-monuments-trump-final-report_us_5a26a1f4e4b0f9f0203f32aa" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">released</a> the final version earlier this month. It calls on Trump to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-monuments-trump-final-report_us_5a26a1f4e4b0f9f0203f32aa" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">shrink or otherwise weaken protections for 10 monuments</a>. On Dec. 4, Trump signed a pair of proclamations to reduce the size of the two Utah sites by a combined 2 million acres. The 1.87 million-acre <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/utah/grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument</a>, the largest land monument in the country, was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/12/04/presidential-proclamation-modifying-grand-staircase-escalante-national" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">cut roughly in half</a>. The boundary of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-monuments-native-americans_us_58643464e4b0d9a5945a06ac" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Bears Ears National Monument</a>, a 1.35 million-acre landscape named after a pair of buttes and home to thousands of Native American archeological and cultural sites, was shrunk by about 85 percent. </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">The move, which opens the door for mining, drilling and other industrial development on public land that has been off limits to such activities, was quickly met with numerous lawsuits from Native American tribes and conservation groups. Meanwhile, groups like the Heartland Institute, a right-wing think tank that’s <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-red-team_us_59efa14ce4b0bf1f8836893e" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">loaded with climate change deniers</a> and furiously promotes the use of fossil fuels, <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartland-institute-experts-react-to-trump-rolling-back-federal-land-grab-in-utah" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">rejoiced</a>.  </div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Interior Department schedules and visitor logs make clear that Magallanes was a key figure in the agency’s review. She was <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?427532-101/interior-secretary-zinke-previews-antiquities-act-review-audio" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">on hand during a press call</a> in April, when Zinke first announced details of Trump’s <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-executive-order-national-monuments_us_58ff643de4b0b6f6014ae656?mri" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">executive</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-executive-order-offshore-drilling-us_us_59026653e4b05c39767d41fe" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">orders</a> that initially threatened the future of <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-list-monuments-under-review-announces-first-ever-formal" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="17" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">27 national monuments</a>. During the briefing, Zinke introduced Magallanes as his adviser and said she was there to “help me answer questions if I cannot field them.”</div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Magallanes <a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-00658ch.pdf" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:6;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">traveled with Zinke to several monuments</a>, including Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears, as part of his monuments “listening tour.” While at Grand Staircase-Escalante, Zinke tweeted a photo of himself and others gazing at an exposed coal seam.  </div><div class="content-list-component embed-asset yr-content-list-embed" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; width: 705px; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" data-tweet-id="862430560605487104" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); width: 500px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; min-width: 220px;"><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="direction: ltr; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4;" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" calibri="Calibri" sans-serif="sans-serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" white-space="white-space" initial="initial" position="position" relative="relative"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/SecretaryZinke/status/862430560605487104" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-tweet-id="862430560605487104" id="twitter-widget-0" lang="en" data-twitter-event-id="3" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; border-radius: 5px; max-width: 520px; position: relative;"><article class="MediaCard

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margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">On Aug. 1, roughly three weeks before Zinke </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-national-monuments-review_us_599b42c0e4b06a788a2b151d" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:7;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="21" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">submitted his report</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> to the White House, Magallanes joined Zinke and Trump for a private lunch at the White House, according to Zinke’s schedule. The following day she and Zinke returned to the White House for the first of two monuments review meetings. </span>Attending that meeting and a second on Aug. 29 were White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn, White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley and other high-level officials.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="8" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palmer said Thursday that he is well aware and extremely proud of his daughter’s work at the agency, including her lead role in the monuments review, and supports the administration’s recent rollbacks. </font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="9" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But he stressed he was not involved, either directly or indirectly.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="10" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I didn’t have any skin in that game in any way, shape or form,” he told HuffPost.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="11" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I do know that Downey Palmer Magallanes has recused herself from anything having to do with Peabody,” Palmer said. “That I know for a fact. So she’s not a problem there. She’s a lawyer. And she’s a lawyer that follows the rules.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="12" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the record would appear to suggest that Magallanes has in fact been involved with Peabody on at least one occasion.</b></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="13" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schedules show Magallanes was among three Interior officials who joined Zinke on a June 5 video call with representatives of her father’s former employer — roughly a month after she and Zinke’s visit to Grand Staircase-Escalante.</font></span></p></div><figure class="content-list-component image yr-content-list-image" data-rapid-subsec="entry-image" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px auto; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 0; text-align: center; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="image__src" src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a3bd242150000490049cf52.png?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></font><div class="image__meta-wrapper js-image-meta-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="image__credit" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">INTERIOR DEPARTMENT/SCREENSHOT</font></span></div></figure><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="14" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">At the meeting from Peabody were </span><a href="https://www.peabodyenergy.com/Investor-Info/Corporate-Governance/Leadership-Team" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:14;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Glenn Kellow, </span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">president and CEO; Michael Flannigan, senior vice president of government affairs; and Ray Shepherd, vice president of federal government relations.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="15" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The purpose of that call remains unclear. Michelle Constantine, a spokeswoman for Peabody,&nbsp;did not answer HuffPost’s specific questions about the June 5 meeting. “Peabody Energy meets with elected officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss important public policy issues,” she wrote in an email.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="16" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither the Interior Department nor Magallanes responded to HuffPost’s inquiries about her role in the monuments review, the June 5 meeting or whether she has indeed recused herself from Interior’s dealings with Peabody. </font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="17" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked about the meeting of Peabody and Interior officials, Palmer said he had no knowledge of it. He did note that the coal company is talking to Interior as part of its ongoing effort to extend the life of the Navajo Generating Station, a massive coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. Peabody supplies the power plant with coal from the Kayenta Mine, also located on tribal land.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="18" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial; font-family: ProximaNova, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palmer said his daughter’s recusal with matters concerning Peabody included anything having to do with the Navajo power plant.</font></p><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="19" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like other government agencies, the Interior Department requires employees to recuse themselves from matters that present conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts. <a href="https://www.doi.gov/ethics/recusal-best-practices-for-doi-employees" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:19;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="25" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Specific situations requiring recusal</a> include those that will have an effect on financial interests; when seeking other employment; “when an employee’s participation in a matter would create an appearance problem;” and “out of an abundance of caution.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="20" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/team-member/virginia-canter/" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:20;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="26" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Virginia Canter,</a> the executive branch ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,&nbsp;a government watchdog group, </span>told HuffPost that given Magallanes’s familial ties to the longtime Peabody executive,&nbsp;it would have been&nbsp;</span>prudent for her to seek advice from an agency’s ethics office and have them determine if it was appropriate for her to meet with company officials. “<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">I suspect that an agency ethics official [would say] that the potential conflict may be a little too attenuated,” since her father is no longer with the company, Canter said.&nbsp;</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="21" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Peabody does not appear to have any historic or newfound interest in mining the Grand Staircase-Escalante area, which </span><a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/PublicRoom_Utah_ScienceSymposium2006.pdf" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:21;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="27" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">contains vast deposits of coal</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. Still, it’s a resource that </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/13/474059310/u-s-coal-giant-peabody-energy-files-for-bankruptcy" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:21;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="28" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">struggling</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> coal companies like Peabody might see as a future opportunity.  I</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">n a 1994 report, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that </span><a href="http://files.geology.utah.gov/online/c/c-93/gsekcoal.htm" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:22;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="34" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">more than 62 billion tons of coal</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> — of which 11.4 billion tons are recoverable — are located in the Kaiparowits Plateau.</span>&nbsp;</font></p></div><figure class="content-list-component image yr-content-list-image" data-rapid-subsec="entry-image" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 40px auto; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 0; text-align: center; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img class="image__src" src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a3be89c1d00003a004d2db7.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></font><div class="image__meta-wrapper js-image-meta-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="image__credit" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 5px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE</font></span></div></figure><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="23" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Trump’s proclamation removed large sections of the plateau from the monument.</b> Extractive industries have targeted the area for development in the past. In the 1990s, Andalex Resources, Inc. proposed the </span><a href="https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/FILES/COAL/CHIAS/21KAIPAR/10031995/0001.pdf" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:23;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="35" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Smoky Hollow Mine</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> — a giant operation that sought to remove some </span><a href="http://files.geology.utah.gov/online/c/c-93/gsekcoal.htm" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:23;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="36" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">72 million tons of coal worth an estimated $1.4 billion</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> over a 30-year period. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="24" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palmer — who spent 37 years in the coal industry, 14 years of them as the senior vice president of government relations at Peabody — said he doubts that the presence of coal influenced the agency’s decision on Grand Staircase-Escalante.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="25" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Hell man, there’s coal everywhere. That’s why we use it,” he said. “That Grand Staircase coal, I’ve never looked at those reserves. And I’ve never heard anybody talking about developing the reserves.”&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="26" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The monument rollbacks were about maintaining public land for a variety of uses, including but not limited to mining, Palmer said. He noted that there is also grazing ground and uranium on the land.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="27" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This was not some deep secret coal deal,” he said of Trump’s monument decision. “It’s a multiple-use issue.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="28" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others, however, see it as yet another giveaway to energy interests from an administration <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">stacked with industry lobbyists and climate change skeptics, and which is working feverishly to boost fossil fuel production in an effort to achieve what it calls “energy dominance.”</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="29" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.backcountryhunters.org/landtawney" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="37" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Land Tawney</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, president and chief executive of the Montana-based nonprofit </span><a href="http://www.backcountryhunters.org/" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="38" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Backcountry Hunters and Anglers</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, told Politico this month that the administration’s decision on Grand Staircase-Escalante was particularly “troubling.” He called it a “</span><a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/04/trump-utah-monuments-map-bears-ears-grand-staircase-203201" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:29;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="39" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">carve-out for the coal industry</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">” that threatens important habitat for bighorn sheep. &nbsp;</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="30" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public lands advocates say Magallanes’ ties to the coal industry should raise questions about her involvement in the monuments review and Zinke’s recommendations to Trump.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="31" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, a Colorado-based conservation and advocacy group, told HuffPost that like many Interior officials under Zinke or in his inner circle, Magallanes “seems happily committed to carrying out a far-right agenda for public lands: increasing access for private corporations, while cutting out the public from our lands.”</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="32" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The national monument review is Exhibit A,” he said.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="33" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">As part of the review, Magallanes also met extensively with members of Utah’s Republican congressional delegation and their staffers, as well as several other state and local officials opposed to the monuments, her </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-01076ca_compressed.pdf" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="40" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">schedule</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> shows. She participated in calls with numerous Republican lawmakers in other states with monuments impacted by the review. And she met with several industry representatives, including the vice president of operations at Energy Fuels Resources, a uranium company that </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uraniumco-bears-ears-carve_us_5a2ddd59e4b073789f6ae643" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="41" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">lobbied Trump to carve up Bears Ears</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> so that it could access the area’s uranium deposits, as The Washington Post </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.de9ec7721038" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="42" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And when Trump and Zinke traveled to Salt Lake City earlier this month to announce their decision on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, Magallanes joined them aboard Air Force One, her father told HuffPost.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="35" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to reducing the Utah sites, Zinke has recommended that Trump shrink the boundaries of two land monuments, Nevada’s Gold Butte and Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and California, as well as consider reducing the size of a pair of marine national monuments ― Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll. His report also calls for sweeping changes in how these protected sites are managed, including allowing for drilling, mining, grazing, logging and commercial fishing.</font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="36" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Trump has described the monument designations of his predecessors, specifically President Barack Obama, as an “egregious abuse of federal power” that locks up federal land and threatens local economies.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> But many conservationists see the <b>Trump administration’s </b></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/monument-review-trump-us_us_590ce0c4e4b0d5d9049c8865" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:36;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="45" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>review of monument designations</b></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b> as an illegal attack on the unilateral powers the Antiquities Act of 1906</b> grants to presidents. Sixteen presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, have used the law to </span><a href="https://www.npca.org/resources/2658-monuments-protected-under-the-antiquities-act#sm.0001ow137kydyecsra52hugabbv3l" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:36;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="46" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">designate 157 monuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. And there is </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-authority-national-monuments_us_591c8e92e4b034684b08da98" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:36;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="47" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">no legal precedent that establishes the president’s authority</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> to abolish, shrink or otherwise weaken national monuments.</span></span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="37" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Zinke —</b> who at Trump’s proclamation signing this month said “no one loves public land more than I” — has swung back at accusations that the administration is rolling back public lands protections on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. And he has </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/natural-resources-committee-attacks-patagonia_us_5a2c000ee4b0a290f05122f7" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:37;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="48" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">attacked</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Patagonia, an outspoken critic of the monuments review, dismissing the outdoor retail company as a “</span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/patagonia-interior-twitter/index.html" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:37;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="49" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">special interest</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">” that makes its products in China. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="38" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">“</span><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/12/zinke_offers_few_specifics_abo.html" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:38;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="50" data-v9y="0" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Not one square inch of land has been transferred or sold</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">,” Zinke told reporters a day after Trump’s announcement in Utah, as The Oregonian reported. “This is not about energy. There is no oil and gas assets.”</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="39" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">But in his </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/revised_final_report.pdf" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:39;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="51" data-v9y="0" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">final report</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> to the White House, Zinke acknowledged the potential for mining coal in Grand Staircase-Escalante. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="40" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Areas encompassed within [Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument] contain an estimated<b> several billion tons of coal,” the report reads.</b> </font></span></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="41" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Since assuming the helm at Interior, Zinke has repeatedly stressed that he and Trump </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-fossil-fuels_us_594befdce4b01cdedf018edd" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:41;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="52" data-v9y="0" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">don’t pick winners and losers</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, but rather favor “an all-of-the-above energy strategy.” But he’s met privately with </span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060054851?t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eenews.net%2Fstories%2F1060054851" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:41;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="53" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">a slew of oil and gas executives</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SecretaryZinke/status/870012124147236864" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:41;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="54" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">spoken at industry conferences</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> and a trade group’s </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-api-trump-hotel_us_593594cae4b0099e7fae0e69" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:41;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="55" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">board meeting</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, and prioritizes energy development over conservation. He’s done all of this while virtually turning a cold shoulder to solar, wind and other renewables</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="42" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">In early April, just over a month into Zinke’s tenure, the Interior Department came under fire when it temporarily changed the banner image on the Bureau of Land Management’s website from a picture of two boys enjoying nature to a towering coal seam at Peabody’s </span><a href="https://www.peabodyenergy.com/Operations/U-S-Mining/Powder-River-Basin-Mining/North-Antelope-Rochelle-Mine" target="_blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:42;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="56" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">North Antelope Rochelle Mine</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> in Wyoming.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nola 818 why worry?</font></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-6b02bdc2-7fff-28a8-ff14-b43eb7eb6675" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/climate-science" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">climate science</a>&nbsp;deniers and fossil fuel evangelists met Tuesday in New Orleans for the Heartland Institute's second "America First" conference on U.S. energy, they had every reason to celebrate the unprecedented influence they enjoy in the Trump administration.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Instead, they found plenty of reasons for dread.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">carbon tax proposals floating</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-fossil-fuel-company-lawsuits-timeline-exxon-children-california-cities-attorney-general" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">climate lawsuits advancing</a>, big corporations embracing the need for action and states and&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27062018/coastal-cities-lawsuit-fossil-fuel-oil-climate-change-sea-level-rise-damage-imperial-beach-california" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">cities getting into the act</a>, many of those gathered grappled with the reality that a fossil future was not secure—despite a largely pliant White House and Congress.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Contrarian scientists, policy professionals and lawyers affiliated with conservative interests contemplated the spread of the climate action agenda as if it were a malignancy. While speakers at the live-streamed sessions&nbsp;universally praised President&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trump" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;and his regulatory rollbacks, the overwhelming diagnosis was that more aggressive policy surgery was needed.</font></p><div class="content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>High on their list of targets was the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health and welfare.</b>&nbsp;That determination, affirmed by the Supreme Court, is what empowers the agency to regulate global warming pollution.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the acting EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, has said he considers the endangerment finding "settled law" and does not wish to revisit it.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Complete nonsense," said Atlanta lawyer Harry Macdougald,&nbsp;</b>who was part of the legal team that unsuccessfully challenged the endangerment finding in court during the Obama administration. "It is a direct threat to the president's energy dominance agenda. And the next Democratic administration—and there will be one—will turn the screws."</font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporations 'Jumping on Climate Change'</font></h3><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another theme running through the sessions was exasperation with corporations that have decided to take climate action on their own—or at least have refused to challenge the consensus science that human activity is the driver for global warming.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"A number of regulated utilities across the country—no reason to name names, but there are about a dozen of them—have announced they are going to ... reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050 from their generating fleet, which is the Barack Obama plan and the Hillary Clinton plan," said<b> Frederick Palmer, a senior fellow with the Heartland Institute and a former vice president for the coal company Peabody Energy</b>. "So it's as if Donald Trump wasn't elected president of the United States as far as they are concerned."</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Palmer, who sits on the National Coal Council,</b>&nbsp;a federal advisory committee to the U.S. energy secretary, said the council will soon release a study calling for action to bar coastal states from prohibiting coal export terminals, as Washington State has done. "We've got to get the left coast figured out," he said.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palmer also called for a federal moratorium on the retirement of coal plants, as a national security imperative. He wasn't the only one to suggest that conservatives may have to scrap laissez-faire principles to keep fossil fuel energy flowing.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Joe Leimkuhler, vice president for drilling for LLOG Exploration, a Covington, Louisiana producer focused on the Gulf of Mexico, called for more royalty relief for offshore drilling to help the industry survive in an era of low prices</span>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Craig Richardson, executive director of E&E Legal,</b>&nbsp;a conservative legal group that repeatedly sued the Obama administration's regulatory agencies, said he now sees his group as&nbsp;<b>"trying to be a supportive arm of this new administration." But he lamented what he and others called "virtue signaling" by corporations "jumping on climate change."</b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Richardson complained about ExxonMobil leaving the conservative advocacy group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)</b>, over a clash on climate policy. (Last year, Heartland wanted ALEC to approve a resolution calling on the EPA to withdraw the endangerment finding. Exxon was among several corporations and utilities that convinced ALEC to shelve a vote on the resolution.)</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heartland co-founder Joseph Bast provoked laughter by recounting carmaker GM's response to the&nbsp;<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082018/trump-fuel-efficiency-standards-rollback-climate-change-epa" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Trump administration proposal unveiled last week to freeze fuel economy standards</a>. Quoting the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zero-crashes-emissions-congestion-mary-barra/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">vision statement</a>&nbsp;of GM CEO Mary Barra—that the company is working toward a future of "zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion"—Bast said: "That is impossible, and it's absolutely ludicrous. Zero of each of those things mean zero cars. It means zero respect for people's personal choices of transportation. It would mean a devastating impact on the economy."</font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==<br /></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Palmer</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Senior Vice President of Government Relations for the coal mining company&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; 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background: none;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#Background" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Background</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External resources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External articles</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Background"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A biographical note states that he "joined Peabody in February 2001 and is responsible for advancing state and federal policies related to the production and use of coal. Prior to joining Peabody Energy, he served for 15 years as chief executive officer of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Western_Fuels_Association" title="Western Fuels Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Western Fuels Association</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inc. He most recently served as counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook_Hardy_%26_Bacon" title="Shook Hardy & Bacon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shook Hardy & Bacon</a>, a Kansas City-based law firm."</span><sup id="cite_ref-Bio_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The biographical note states that he "is the 2004 recipient of the Erskine Ramsay Medal Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME). He is a member of the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Coal_Council" title="National Coal Council" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Coal Council</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Executive Committee and Chairman, Coal Policy Committee. He is Peabody Energy's representative and on the Board of Directors of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FutureGen_Alliance" title="FutureGen Alliance" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">FutureGen Alliance</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> as well as on the Board of Directors of the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/World_Coal_Institute" title="World Coal Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">World Coal Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He formerly served as: Board of Directors,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Mining_Association" title="National Mining Association" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Mining Association</a>&nbsp;and chaired its Legal Committee and Climate Change Task Force."<sup id="cite_ref-Bio_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_note-Bio-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a></sup></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A biographical note on the FutureGen Alliance website also notes that Palmer was "Chairman of the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Information_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Environmental Information Council (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Information Council</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" and "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President of the Board of Directors of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Greening_Earth_Society" title="Greening Earth Society" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Greening Earth Society</a>"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Articles and resources</font></span></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h3><div class="references-small" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-Bio-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">↑&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_ref-Bio_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span>1.0</a></sup>&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_ref-Bio_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1</a></sup>&nbsp;<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_ref-Bio_1-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2</a></sup></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peabodyenergy.com/Profile/ManagementTeam.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Management Team"</a>, Peabody Energy website, accessed June 2010.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.futuregenalliance.org/alliance/boardmembers/palmer.stm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Board Members: Frederick Palmer"</a>, FutureGen Alliance website, accessed June 2010.</span></font></li></ol></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related SourceWatch articles</font></span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clean_coal" title="Clean coal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Clean coal</font></a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External resources</font></span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fred Palmer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://advancedcoalconference.com/sites/default/files/ppt/FDP_IACT_Wyoming_v5.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url(" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" no-repeat="no-repeat">"Green Coal, Global Growth and the PRB"</a>, Presentation at the International Advanced Coal Technologies Conference, June 23, 2010. (Large Pdf)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/palmer.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Interview: Fred Palmer"</a>, Frontline, PBS, undated but approx 2000.</font></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">External articles</font></span></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dustin Bleizeffer,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_22aa4c0a-803c-54c2-b8d4-f8a404f8e713.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Powder River Basin coal model goes global"</a>,&nbsp;<i>Star-Tribune</i>&nbsp;(Wyoming), June 25, 2010.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leo Hickman,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Fred Palmer interview: 'We're 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere': The Peabody Energy chief on China, 'clean coal', and the US energy sector's funding of climate scepticism"</a>,&nbsp;<i>Guardian</i>, March 8, 2011.</font></li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Categories</a>:&nbsp;</font><ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Stubs" title="Category:Stubs" style="text-decoration: none; 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line-height: 13.5030002593994px;"><div class="content"><div class="views_view view view-polluter-tabs view-id-polluter_tabs view-display-id-block_3 view-dom-id-7"><div class="view-content"><div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"><div class="views-field-body" style="margin-bottom: 25px;"><div class="field-content"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Palmer is Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Peabody Energy where he is responsible for advancing state and federal policies related to the production and use of coal. Prior to joining Peabody, Fred served as Head of Counsel at Shook, Hardy, and Bacon in Washington, DC.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is a member of the Board of Directors for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a member of the National Coal Council serving on the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Coal Policy Committee, and Chair of the Climate Change Task Force for the National Mining Association.</font></p><h5 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Source:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1267" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets</a></font></h5></div></div><div class="views-field-field-quotes-value" style="margin-bottom: 25px;"><div class="field-content"><div class="polluter-subtitle" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 8px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">QUOTES</font></div><div class="polluter-body"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We're 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere. All the time."</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We don't have a political allegiance. We're Americans and our political party is coal."</font></p><h5 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-Source:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Guardian Interview</a>, March 8, 2011</font></h5><hr style="height: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We have a sustainable energy delivery system in the United States--it’s called coal-fired electricity.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Every time you turn on your car and burn fossil fuel and put CO2 in the air, you are doing the work of the Lord. It is the ecological system we live in."</font></p><h5 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-Source: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9kanvxa6A" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Staking the Globe- The Energy War is On!</a>" (by Danish journalists Poul Erik Heilbuth and Hans Bulow, 1997)</font></h5><hr style="height: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We are at the top of the food chain insofar as CO2 emissions are concerned. So if you get in the business of limiting CO2 emissions, of taxing CO2 emissions, of creating a value in CO2 emissions where people trade them in this emissions trading scheme, you go to the coal plants first because of the fact that that's the greatest source --single source--of CO2 that there is."</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"[T]he science to me--and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer--the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all."</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"[T]he precautionary principle might say that we should put more CO2 in the air to prevent CO2 levels from being driven down to such low levels in the future by an ice age that it extinguishes plant life. And there are scientists that believe this."</font></p><h5 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-Source:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/palmer.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">PBS Interview</a></font></h5></div></div></div><div class="views-field-field-evidence-value" style="margin-bottom: 50px; padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 202, 203);"><div class="field-content"><div class="polluter-subtitle" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 8px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EVIDENCE</font></div><div class="polluter-body"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fred Palmer has made a career out of leading organizations that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/palmer.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">deny the scientific seriousness of global warming</a>. He was General Manager, CEO, and General Counsel of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Western_Fuels_Association" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Western Fuels Association</a>, a coalition of coal-burning utilities that adamently<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">undermine climate science</a>&nbsp;to prevent coal industry regulation. Palmer also served as President of the Board of Directors of the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greening_Earth_Society" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Greening Earth Society</a>, a coal-front spinoff of the Western Fuels Association that created short films titled "The Greening of Planet Earth," which sought to prove that drastic increases in atmospheric CO2 would act as a beneficial worldwide fertilizer. Career climate change-denying scientists, whose climate-related work is not actually conducted in the field nor valid enough to be published after a peer-review from actual climate scientists, served as "scientific advisers" to the</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Greening Earth Society, including&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Patrick Michaels</a>,<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=860" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Willie Soon</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=3" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Sallie Baliunas</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Robert C. Balling, Jr</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Despite a history of climate science denial and misinformation and continued&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lobbying against the US Environmental Protection Agency's lawful control of greenhouse gas pollutants</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Fred Palmer claims to accept and confront the need to reduce the carbon intensity of coal production and combustion. Palmer sits on the board of the FutureGen Alliance, a $1.3 billion Illinois-based project to construct the first commercial coal plant to use</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/ccs-not-going-to-save-the-clim/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">carbon capture</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and storage technology</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a stall tactic and false solution to global warming. Palmer continues to cite the debunked "climategate" emails after the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/07/michael_mann_exonerated_yet_ye.php" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">exoneration of climate scientists</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;whose emails were hacked and selectively published to implicate data alteration.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Palmer refers to China as the "<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">leading testbed for carbon technology</a>." At the expense of its people's health and the ecosystems sustaining them, rapid development of </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">China's coal industry has led to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/coal-crisis" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">external costs</a>&nbsp;at an estimated 7.1% of China's annual GDP.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> While Palmer claims that increased coal use leads to "more people living longer, living better," rural Chinese have experienced<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/coal-ash-pollution" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">shocking levels of exposure to coal ash pollution [pictures]</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/eastasia/press/reports/coal-ash-report-english-2010.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Greenpeace testing of coal ash [PDF]</a>&nbsp;in China revealed known human carcinogens and neurotoxins, including lead, mercury, and arsenic, as well as concentrated radioactive elements.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Peabody has spent&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?year=2010&lname=Peabody+Energy&id=" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">$29.2 million on federal lobbying</a>&nbsp;from 2006-2010.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="views-field-field-links-resources-url" style="margin-bottom: 25px;"><div class="field-content"><div class="polluter-subtitle" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 8px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LINKS AND RESOURCES</font></div><div class="polluter-body"><div class="field-item field-item-0" style="display: list-item; margin-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Palmer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SourceWatch</font></a></div><div class="field-item field-item-1" style="display: list-item; margin-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/index.php?mapid=1609" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ExxonSecrets</font></a></div><div class="field-item field-item-2" style="display: list-item; margin-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4129" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DeSmogBlog</font></a></div><div class="field-item field-item-3" style="display: list-item; margin-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?searchvalue=peabody&search=1&type=search" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DirtyEnergyMoney</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="block-views-profile_videos-block_3" class="block block-views region-odd odd region-count-3 count-7" style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 13.5030002593994px;"><h2 class="title" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 8px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">POLLUTERWATCH VIDEOS</font></h2></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></twitterwidget></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></twitterwidget></div></div>