At the "Utah Energy Summit [3]," Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer called for more federal money to develop "clean coal" as an alternative to petroleum and a solution to global warming [4]. As David Roberts notes, the summit organizer is Jim Sims [5] of Policy Communications [6], "a long-time lobbyist for extractive industries" and the head of front groups such as Partnership for the West [7] and the Save Our Species Alliance [8], "an astroturf organization created for the purpose of convincing the public to accept the gutting of the Endangered Species Act [9]. ... Remember: despite the new moniker, clean coal is coal, a fossil fuel backed by a fossil fuel industry. It's the same Big Coal with deep ties in state and federal government and a long history of corruption. It's an industry that's spent practically a century entrenching itself and fighting off competitors. It founded [10] the 20-year campaign of obfuscation and denial on global warming. Now it's selling 'alternative energy.'"