Articles by Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson is the political director of Climate Hawks Vote.
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API chief economist admits taxes on oil industry can create millions of jobs
The American Petroleum Institute (API) — the lobbying giant of the oil and gas industry that also writes its own rules — is continuing its work to keep oil industry profits high as the American worker suffers. API demonizes any efforts to cut the industry’s billion-dollar subsidies as "energy taxes" that "destroy jobs." But their chief economist admits otherwise.
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West Virginia politician: Compared to drug overdoses, coal isn't so bad
At an exclusive coal industry retreat this month, a top West Virginia politician bemoaned the negative image of the state’s coal industry in the wake of this year’s Upper Big Branch disaster that killed 29 miners. Looking for a silver lining, Senate Finance Chairman Walt Helmick (D-W.Va.) contrasted the death toll from mining coal to the deaths from drug overdoses in McDowell County, West Virginia’s poorest.
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Smoggy senators protest EPA plan to save thousands of children’s lives
In a startling act of fealty to polluter interests, several senators are fighting scientifically guided smog limits that would save thousands of lives a year.
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Climate experts agree: Global warming caused Russian heat wave
As Russia chokes from a heat wave of unprecedented ferocity, president Dmitry Medvedev has strengthened his call for the world?s leaders to take action to fight global warming pollution.
