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Paul Blumenthal is a senior writer at the Sunlight Foundation. The Economist (UK), ‘Cap and tirade’, 3 December 2009. Lexington Herald-Leader (US), ‘Coal execs hope to spend big to defeat Conway and Chandler’, 28 July 2010. Center for Responsive Politics (US), ‘Energy and natural resources’, 26 July 2010, at www. opensecrets.org/lobby/indus.php?lname=E&year=2009. Marianne Lavelle, ‘The Climate Change Lobby Explosion’, Center for Public Integrity (US), 24 February 2009. Evan Mackinder, ‘Pro-Environment Groups Outmatched, Outspent in Battle Over Climate Change Legislation’, Center for Responsive Politics (US), 23 August 2010. Ibid. New York Times (US), ’Justices, 5-4, reject corporate spending limit’, 21 January 2010. United States Climate Action Partnership, www.us-cap.org/about-us/about-our-members. Marianne Lavelle, ‘Tally of Interests on Climate Bill Tops a Thousand’, Center for Public Integrity (US), 10 August 2009. Charlottesville Daily Progress (US), ‘Forged letters to congressman anger local groups’, 31 July 2009. Mother Jones (US), ‘Inside Bonner’s climate letter forgeries’, 29 October 2009. For more on ‘astroturf’ groups, see TI, Global Corruption Report 2009: Corruption and the Private Sector (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 39–40. Paul Blumenthal, ‘The Max Baucus energy and climate lobbyist complex’, Sunlight Foundation (US), 9 November 2009. Center for Responsive Politics (US), ‘Castagnetti, David: lobbyist profile’, at www.opensecrets. org/lobby/lobbyist.php?lname=Castagnetti%2C+David&id=Y00000402241&year=2009. Center for Responsive Politics (US), ‘Rich, J Curtis: lobbyist profile’, at www.opensecrets.org/ lobby/lobbyist.php?lname=Rich%2C+J+Curtis&id=Y00000221901&year=2009.

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