By now you’ve heard about the DC-based lobbying firm that sent utterly forged letters to Virginia Congressman Tom Perriello and Pennsylvania Congress members Kathy Dahlkemper and Christopher Carney urging them to oppose landmark global warming legislation.Congressman Perriello received eight forged letters, one from a Hispanic non-profit Creciendo Juntos, five from the Virginia chapter of the NAACP, one from the Jefferson Area Board for Aging, and one from the American Association of University Women. Four letters in total were sent to the two representatives from Pennsylvania. CCAN Director Mike Tidwell interviewed a Creciendo Juntos Board Member on his radio show earlier this week. Listen to the show now.The news broke on Friday. On Monday we learned that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) — the coal industry’s top front group — had hired Bonner & Associates and knew about the forgeries days before the House voted on the bill. And yet it did nothing.And because being responsible for forged letters to Congress isn’t bad enough, on Tuesday ACCCE spokesman Joe Lucas came out with another gem. Joe Lucas told a Guardian reporter that people who lived in the shadow of mountaintop removal sites welcomed the radical form of mining because those pesky mountains just get in the way.

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