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

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CORE Unmasks Industry Plan To Push “Carbon Cap-And-Tax-And-Tax” on Consumers
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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?
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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...

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., head of High-Impact Leadership Coalition, blasts Robert Redford's huge energy-sucking mansion, contempt for the poor
The Park Record
"Robert Redford can afford to heat his 13,000-square-foot mansion in Utah no matter how high home heating prices get," said Harry R. Jackson Jr., chairman of the High-Impact Leadership Coalition, which worked with CORE in a Salt Lake City protest against the actor's anti-drilling views.
"But grandmothers on a fixed income and single mothers dependent upon public assistance count on energy production in states like Utah to continue so that their home-heating costs stay as low as possible."   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...

CORE leader Roy Innis honored by NASDAQ
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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...

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...

    

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