Robert Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, largest independent producer of coal in the U.S. insists that climate change is a lie. Murray insists that the Earth is actually cooling.
Back in 2009, there was a plot by climate-change deniers is to push this bogus 'theory' that the Earth is actually cooling, instead of warming. But the temperature data they used was reviewed by independent statisticians (not associated with the climate scientists) and debunked. Instead, the statisticians found "a distinct decades-long upward trend," which of course has been backed up by the world's leading scientists for many years. However, the theory has since been aggressively pushed by some fossil-fuel vested interests such as Murray.
Murray lobbies for pro-industry legislation through his company's Political Action Committee. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethicsfiled a complaint against Murray with the Federal Elections Commission for violations of federal campaign law in which employees of Murray Energy were supposedly required to give 1% of their salary to the company's PAC. In May 2012, he hosted a $1.7 million fund-raiser for Mitt Romney during his run for the presidency, and later hosted Romney at his coal mine in Beallsville, Ohio. Murray closed the mine for the day of the rally and suspended pay to workers, arguing that the rally was very important to the coal industry and that attending was in the workers' "best interest."
To keep his deadly coal-mines free of miner-saving rules and regulations, Murray will sue everyone he can. Coal in the US kills 13,000 a year and causes millions to be sick. 7 million deaths in 2012 world-wide.
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Back in 2009, there was a plot by climate-change deniers is to push this bogus 'theory' that the Earth is actually cooling, instead of warming. But the temperature data they used was reviewed by independent statisticians (not associated with the climate scientists) and debunked. Instead, the statisticians found "a distinct decades-long upward trend," which of course has been backed up by the world's leading scientists for many years. However, the theory has since been aggressively pushed by some fossil-fuel vested interests such as Murray.
Murray lobbies for pro-industry legislation through his company's Political Action Committee. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethicsfiled a complaint against Murray with the Federal Elections Commission for violations of federal campaign law in which employees of Murray Energy were supposedly required to give 1% of their salary to the company's PAC. In May 2012, he hosted a $1.7 million fund-raiser for Mitt Romney during his run for the presidency, and later hosted Romney at his coal mine in Beallsville, Ohio. Murray closed the mine for the day of the rally and suspended pay to workers, arguing that the rally was very important to the coal industry and that attending was in the workers' "best interest."
To keep his deadly coal-mines free of miner-saving rules and regulations, Murray will sue everyone he can. Coal in the US kills 13,000 a year and causes millions to be sick. 7 million deaths in 2012 world-wide.
From here
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