The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World's Worst Polluters

(Multimedia) Major environmental groups are coming under criticism from within their own ranks for taking positions that some say are antithetical to their stated missions of saving the planet. In the latest issue of The Nation magazine, the British journalist Johann Hari writes, "As we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 10, 2010

The allegations of a corporate sellout by certain environmental groups should be of interest to their supporters and worthy of more in depth reporting.

At least CI is a group I have not contributed to.

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