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New Poll "Foreshadows Massive Consumer Rejection of Cap-and-Tax Plans," Civil Rights Leader Says

CORE

A new national poll confirms that a rapidly growing consumer tide is building against cap-and-tax plans that will raise electricity bills, according to civil rights champion Roy Innis, who says the poll "foreshadows a huge defeat for cap-and-tax activists and their supporters in the U.S. Senate"

CORE

An unnamed industry group is reportedly encouraging Congress to impose a “carbon cap-and-tax-and-tax” plan on its own customers, a plan that would dramatically raise energy prices in the midst of an economic recession, the Congress of Racial Equality charged in a national speech today. Read More...

Ken Salazar Is Going Hollywood?

CORE

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar "is going Hollywood on us" by caving in to to actor Robert Redford's demands that American oil and gas leases in Utah be stopped. Read More...

CORE protest against Robert Redford creates media firestorm

The Salt Lake City protest against Robert Redford's effort to shut off Utah's natural gas supply to Eastern states generated a massive wave of media coverage across America. It was so huge even a sample is overwhelming. You have to follow the links to believe the power! Read More...

Protesters label actor Robert Redford an enemy of the poor

Salt Lake Tribune

The Congress of Racial Equality, the High-Impact Leadership Coalition, and affordable energy activists took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition to oil and gas drilling in Utah. Read More...

CORE Praises Plans For High-Tech Coal-to-Gas Plant In Kentucky

Civil rights leader Roy Innis today praised plans by ConocoPhillips and Peabody Energy to construct a coal gasification facility in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, saying the plant will bring new jobs to an area that desperately needs them and will provide a model for the nation on how coal-to-gas technologies can be deployed. Read More...

Black Ministers and Civil Rights and Pro-Family Advocates To Protest Robert Redford

Advocates for the poor from all over the nation will descend on Salt Lake this week to wage a protest against Hollywood actor Robert Redford's opposition to exploration of clean-burning Utah natural gas -- energy that helps heat millions of homes across America. Read More...

Group protests Redford's stand on drilling

Deseret News

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is organizing protests against actor Robert Redford for his political role in hurting low-income families by fighting oil and gas drilling in Utah. CORE and the High Impact Leadership Coalition are launching a "Don't Freeze Us Out" campaign that will seek to organize churches, civil rights groups, consumer groups and others to fight Redford and self-styled environmental groups that are working to constrict supplies of natural gas and other energy resources Read More...

Environmentalists waging war on America's poor?

OneNewsNow.com

Actor Robert Redford has been fighting to stop oil and gas exploration on land in Utah. He justifies his campaign saying that energy production might damage prehistoric rock art. But members of the Congress of Racial Equality, including national spokesman Niger Innis, contend Redford and his environmentalist friends are actually hurting the poor in the East and Midwest, where energy prices remain high, because natural gas must be transported by pipeline from Utah and other Western states. Read More...

Redford's Media Grandstanding in Utah Will Hurt the Poor in Chicago

CORE

Hollywood actor Robert Redford's recent headline-grabbing campaign to restrict supplies of clean-burning natural gas from Utah will end up hurting poor families in Chicago and across the West and Midwest, charged Roy Innis, Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Read More...