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Article: GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 2003
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The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in
developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to
give congressional investigators details of the meetings, according
to a federal report issued yesterday.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress,
said in the report that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham privately
discussed the formulation of Bush's policy "with chief executive
officers of petroleum, electricity, nuclear, coal, chemical and
natural gas companies, among others."
An energy task force, led by Vice President Cheney, relied for
outside advice primarily on "petroleum, coal, nuclear, natural gas,
electricity industry representatives ...