Oil Firm Hires Former White House Official
From Times Wire Reports
A former White House official and onetime oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said.
The White House announced that Philip Cooney, chief of staff of its Council on Environmental Quality, had resigned, calling it a long-planned departure.
He made changes to government reports that critics said consistently played down the certainty of the science surrounding climate change.
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