Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force is Revealed!

Posted by Guest Blogger at 6:10 AM on July 18, 2007.

David Roberts: After a six-year battle the record of who Cheney created our nation's energy policy with is published, and it isn't a pretty picture.

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This post by David Roberts, originally appeared on The Huffington Post

Six years and a protracted legal battle later, the Washington Post has finally gotten its hands on a list of who met with Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force in 2001.

Turns out it's a bunch of oil and gas execs. Shocking.

This is my favorite 'graph from the story:

The task force issued its report on May 16, 2001. Though the report was roundly criticized by environmental groups at the time, some energy experts say that in retrospect it appears better balanced than the administration's actual policy.

Sigh.

Here's the full list.

Tagged as: energy, bush administration, washington post, cheney

David Roberts is staff writer for environmental magazine Grist.org.