the coal, auto, and oil industry joined forces to blunt actions to reduce global warming
gas emissions. (Gary Gallon 7/1/98 “Kyoto to Bonn, Climate Change/ Mexico's Fires
Canadian Institute for Business & Environment Vol. 2, No. 16, June 30, 1998.)
Economic interests would be directly affected by public efforts to reduce the use of fossil
fuels and the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Sheldon Rampton, an associate editor of PR Watch and Bob Burton a reporter based in
Australia investigated the actions of the companies with vested interest in seeing Kyoto
fail. The original article first appeared in Earth Island Journal (Spring 1998), and was
adapted from