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Help wanted: Supporters for coal lobby
EPA's Lisa Jackson surprise speaker at Colorado conservation gala
By Troy Hooper
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 1:23 pm
— The coal industry is resorting to online classifieds to bolster its
ranks.

“We hear stories of people paying folks $50 through Craigslist to come
and wear shirts supporting ‘Coal for America,’” Lisa Jackson, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator and surprise guest at
the “Rebel With A Cause” gala, told a ballroom of activists on
Thursday night.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson speaks in Denver. (Photo by Troy
Hooper)
In advance of yesterday’s EPA hearings in Chicago and Washington,
D.C., for the first-ever carbon standards for new power plants, there
was indeed at least one advertisement posted on Craigslist in Chicago
titled “People needed to attend a public meeting” (see screen shot at
bottom of page) that said “all you need to do is wear a t-shirt in
support of an energy project for two hours” to get a free lunch and
$50. Photographs of young men sporting “America Counts on Coal” t-
shirts surfaced on the Internet today.

“What’s really neat is the thousands of people who came because they
care, the moms who came,” Jackson said to a receptive crowd that
filled the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the
Performing Arts for dinner, a live auction and awards ceremony.

The audience stood and clapped when Jackson took the stage as the
gala’s surprise guest. Her treatment here was quite different than
what she receives in the nation’s capitol.

“It’s so rare that I walk into the room … and hear the applause that
which counters those things I hear inside the Washington Beltway,
which is that ‘average Americans just don’t care about air and water.’

“We know better,” she said. ... (cont)