Small Tea Party Meeting Has a Special Guest: Big Oil
Faced with a president who wants to make fighting climate change part of its legacy, lobbyists are instead taking their fight to the streets.
The silhouettes of emissions are seen rising from stacks of the Duke Energy Corp. Gibson Station power plant at dusk in Owensville, Indiana, U.S., on Thursday, July 23, 2015.
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The featured speaker at the July meeting of the Northern Virginia Tea Party was Miles Morin, the state coordinator of Virginia Energy Citizens.
About three dozen people came to hear him in a sports bar just outside the Capital Beltway in Falls Church. He took the stage following the Lord’s Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, a retired Air Force colonel’s advice on emergency preparedness—“lock and load”—and a retired Exxon Mobil Corp. environmental adviser’s presentation on “the myth of climate change.”