Early last week, The Hill published an op-ed that attacks the Clean Power Plan. It was nothing particularly special, authored by Kathleen Hartnett-White, a long-time resident of (but usually minor player in) the deniersphere. As a former chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and current director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the oil, tobacco and other industry-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), her denial efforts rarely reach outside the Lone Star State.
Not any more. Just two days after her Hill op-ed, Hartnett-White was named to Donald Trump’s Economic Advisory Council, along with the president of the TPPF, Brooke Rollins.
Hartnett-White’s book about energy policy is on the reading list that the Koch Brothers gave to their donors, and she’s well-connected in the Texas political realm as TPPF holds events which draw people like Ted Cruz and Lamar Smith. She’s also well-connected in the deniersphere, holding an advisory position on the CO2 Coalition, the new incarnation of the George Marshall Institute that’s been more aptly described by John Mashey as the CO2 CoalOILition.
With this promotion to the national stage, we can surely expect to see more of Hartnett-White in the future. Though everything’s bigger in Texas, it looks like her career’s going to be bigger once she gets out of it!
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