Coal industry pays fake activists $50 to wear pro-coal shirts at public hearing

25 May

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A version of this post originally appeared on Climate Progress.

Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal T-shirts at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing yesterday.

The EPA hearings, held in Chicago and Washington, D.C., were focused on the agency’s first-ever carbon standards for new power plants. The industry has adamantly opposed these standards, as well as standards on mercury -- a pollutant that even Sen.

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