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An Open Letter to George Landrith and The American Environmental CoalitionI attended the Montana Climate Change Dialogue, hosted by the Montana Chamber of Commerce, in Billings, MT on March 19th. The conference’s purpose, or at least advertised purpose, was to create a forum for fair, balanced dialogue on the issue of Climate Change in America and Montana. In reality the conference was a stage for the opposition of climate change legislation to preach skewed data and biased rhetoric in order to influence Montanan business owners, legislators and citizens to oppose action on climate change, most specifically the Lieberman/Warner Act (S. 2191) which calls for a carbon cap and other climate change policy that aims to reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 85% by the year 2030. I don’t believe this was the intention of the Montana Chamber of Commerce or it’s President, as Mr. Webb Brown did his best to allow a lengthy question and answer session for the audience, but the most environmentally positive speaker at the event was Mark Lambrecht, a representative for PPL Montana, an energy company that owns several coal-fire power plants in the state. [more]
